Global information and insights company, TransUnion, announced on Monday it has partnered with South Africa-based financial marketplace, Fincheck, to make the credit application process easier and less frustrating for consumers. According to the duo, consumers are now able to access a free TransUnion credit report… Read More
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital with financial services, according to a recent report from TransUnion (NYSE:TRU), a financial services data platform and credit report provider. The report notes that the Coronavirus outbreak sent “shockwaves” through the financial services sector and has… Read More
While TransUnion (NYSE:TRU) pursues a path of silence on the matter, yesterday’s outage is said to have been caused by a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDOS) according to an industry insider. The TransUnion site is currently live and working fine as of this report…. Read More
Transunion (NYSE:TRU), a financial services data platform and credit report provider, struggled with an outage today. At the time of this writing, Transunion’s website would not load and company representatives were not responding to an inquiry regarding the outage. Transunion is perhaps best known for… Read More
Financial Data Exchange, a non-profit organization that is dedicated to unifying the financial industry around a common, interoperable, royalty-free standard for secure and convenient consumer and business access to their financial data, announced on Monday it welcomed 25 new members between August 1st and December 31st,… Read More
Singapore-based Fintech firm CredoLab has confirmed that the Financial Services Authority (OJK) has officially recognized it as an established provider of financial technology services to companies in Indonesia. Michele Tucci, chief product officer at CredoLab, stated: “Clients can rely on the OJK’s assessment and audit… Read More
Chicago, Illinois-based TransUnion (NYSE: TRU), a company that provides credit reports and credit scores, released a study on October 30 in which it looked at what happens when consumers take out a personal loan to pay off their credit card debt. The study revealed that… Read More
Online lending is the future. Everybody knows that. It is easier, faster, and more convenient for both lender and borrower. Over the past decade or so, a good number of direct lenders, be they balance sheet, marketplace or other, have cropped up to service the… Read More
TransUnion (NYSE: TRU), a US consumer credit reporting agency that profiles just about every single consumer, has just published its Q4 2018 Industry Insights Report and their data holds good news for Fintechs. According to TransUnion, Fintechs continue to increase their market share of personal loans… Read More
This is interesting. According to a report in Bloomberg, online lending has grown impressively in the past seven years. Quoting data from TransUnion, the write states that Fintech firms originated 36% of all personal loans in 2017. This is in contrast to just under 1% in… Read More
TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) announced on Friday it has agreed to acquire UK-based consumer credit bureau Callcredit. The credit bureau giant reported it acquired Callcredit for the price of £1 billion. While sharing more details about the acquisition, Jim Peck, TransUnion’s President and CEO, stated: “TransUnion and Callcredit have… Read More
Nova Credit, based in San Francisco and backed by Index Ventures, First Round Capital, NYCA and Core Innovation Capital, has partnered with Transunion to serve creditworthy newcomers to Canada who may otherwise miss out on credit opportunities due to a lack of Canadian credit history…. Read More
PeerIQ, a leading data and analytics platform operating in the online lending sector, recently announced it was launching a consumer credit suite, which is a fully integrated data and analytics enhancement available through the PeerIQ Analytics platform. The new suite is notably the result of… Read More
PeerIQ Expands Into Traditional Lending Sector PeerIQ, a provider of data and analytics for the lending sector, has closed a $12 million Series A funding round, co-led by TransUnion, Hearst’s Financial Venture Fund and Macquarie Group. Existing investors Uprising and former Morgan Stanley CEO John… Read More
Global Debt Registry (GDR), the asset certainty company known specializing in loan validation, will be utilizing data from credit information provider TransUnion in order to extend the range of GDR’s eValidationSM services for investors and issuing creditors in the online lending industry. By combining GDR’s expertise in real validation of… Read More
TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) announced on Tuesday its latest data found that as personal loan delinquency rates rise, online fraud, which includes loan stacking, continues to make significant contributions to these increases. The credit information and information management service company noted that serious delinquency rates (90+… Read More
Peer-to-peer lending platform Faircent has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Aarin Capital, a fund led by Infosys’ former CFO and chairman of Manipal Global Education T.V. Mohandas Pai, according to the Economic Times’ ET Tech, citing people aware of the development. Pai will also join the… Read More
Indian P2P lending marketplace Faircent.com signed data and solutions initiatives with global risk and information solutions provider TransUnion, for real-time credit appraisal of borrowers, reported the Economic Times. According to the post, Faircent is the first P2P lending marketplace to leverage TransUnion’s capability in data, analytics… Read More
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