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U.S. Credit Card Delinquency Rates Inch Higher

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Credit card delinquencies increased for three consecutive months, adding to signs that consumers in the U.S. According to a news report in Reuters , credit card data from the likes of JPMorgan and Discover Financial Services on Monday (Oct. Meanwhile, Discover saw credit card delinquencies increase by 1.64 percent from August.

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Wild Cards? Gambling, Payroll, Other Models Provide Fresh Fuel For Prepaid

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Cards (as in prepaid, stored-value cards that consumers can use for gambling, payroll and a variety of other uses, many of them novel) are only half the battle. To get a sense of how the world of payments and cards has changed, Cregan told Webster a story about a conference he attended in Las Vegas in 2009.

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Sub-Prime Lending’s Late-Year Bounce

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In the year between Q2 2017 and Q2 2018, sub-prime consumer loan originations grew 28 percent between Q2 2017 and Q2 2018 across the categories of auto loans, mortgage loans and credit cards. In 2016, the market experienced a pullback as lenders slowed or stalled sub-prime originations,” Komos said. “The percent to 18.63

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US Credit Card Debt Revisits Previous Highs at $1T

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The $1 trillion level has been attained for credit card debt within the country, with that level not seen since early 2009, when the shockwaves of the financial crisis first were felt. Those two subsets of lending hit their own respective $1 trillion levels over the past few years. In the U.S.,

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Taking A Credit-First Approach To Alt Lending 

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However, Tavares said the landscape is shifting, as LendingPoint and other alternative credit products lend their ears — and their money — to underserved populations. For instance, he said, maybe they had a secure payment card with an issuer and another line of credit worth $1,000. Burnside got his start in small business lending.

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

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The world of 2009 was starkly different, a far less optimistic place. Though the Great Recession was technically “over” by the middle of 2009, few people living in the real economy felt that fact in their daily lives. When people asked “what’s next?” in the year 1999, they were generally pretty excited to hear the answer.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. The DOJ Finding. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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