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Citigroup Credit Card Charge-Offs Higher Than Some Peers

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The credit card companies are out with data on May credit card charge-offs, which shows a mixed bag among the different players in the industry. Take Capital One, the credit card company, for starters. Meanwhile credit card delinquencies fell to 3.47 Auto charge-offs also decreased at the credit card company to 1.41

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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. It’s a very real situation in the U.S.,

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Inflated Credit Scores Put Lenders At Risk

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“Because loss rates today are low and competition for high-score borrowers is fierce, lenders may be tempted to lower their credit standards without appreciating that the 660 credit-score borrower today may be relatively worse than a 660-score borrower in 2009.”.

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ANZ Bank To Refund $8B To Corporate Cardholders

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ANZ, one of Australia’s largest banks, is set to doll out nearly $8 billion in refunds to small business customers using the FI’s commercial card products. 9) said the refunds will be paid out across 52,000 credit card accounts held by business customers as a result of failure to disclose fees and interest charges.

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LendingClub Settles With SEC, DOJ

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Both the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) have officially ended a two-year investigation of LendingClub, its subsidiary LC Advisors (LCA), its founder and former CEO Renaud Laplanche and its former CFO Carrie Dolan. On Friday (Sept. The DOJ Finding. Attorney Alex Tse. “We The Response.

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Happy Birthday To PYMNTS

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On this day in history in the year 2009, the world of payments and commerce was changed forever. No, we’re not talking about the launch of Square – that was in February of 2009. and was followed by the great cybercriminal migration to the web and card-not-present transactions. True in 2009. In The Beginning.

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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.