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Finastra launches embedded consumer lending solution

Bobsguide

Financial institutions and retail brands gain a new embedded finance platform to help consumers access regulated loans at point-of-sale, powered by Banking as a Service. Financial institutions, distributors and merchants will benefit from a platform that makes it easy for their customers to access lending options.

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‘Buy Now, Pay Later’: An Innovative Lending Program Heading for a Cliff?

The Financial Brand

Calls grow for regulation of fintech-driven POS lending, but for some banks, a credit card variation could be at least a good defensive play. The post ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’: An Innovative Lending Program Heading for a Cliff? appeared first on The Financial Brand.

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Australia Rises In Global Alt-Lending Ranks

PYMNTS

The Australian market is quickly becoming a hotbed of alternative lending , and new analysis from KPMG suggests it has risen up in the ranks. A key driver of that growth is favorable government policies, researchers said, with regulators around the world exploring how to ensure borrower protections without stifling innovation.

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Why Regulation Won’t Fix Credit Reporting Agencies

PYMNTS

The credit bureaus were included in the CFPB’s scope of oversight in 2012, and she’s asked the agency to let her know what additional power it might need to better regulate the credit reporting agencies going forward. The credit score itself, the FICO score, was an innovation brought to market in 1989 by the Fair Isaac Corporation.

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Didi Chuxing Offers Financial Services

PYMNTS

The company will offer crowdfunding and lending as it tries to distance itself from a year of scandals, including the murder of two female passengers. The services include wealth management tools, credit, lending and crowdfunding for serious illnesses. Didi is backed by Uber, Apple and SoftBank.

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Dr. Strangelove or: How Fintechs Will Learn to Stop Worrying and Love Regulation

FICO

The most prominent villain for fintech companies is regulation. And so it’s easy to see why a fintech company — believing fully in the virtue of its mission and faced with a litany of illogical and intractable regulations — might just say "F*ck it, we're doing it anyways." Brand protection. and China).

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Ten Years Of Payments Innovation And Reinvention

PYMNTS

As Seedrs CEO Jeff Kelisky told Karen Webster in a recent discussion, while most people in 2009 took one look at the sputtering and shuddering economy, there was a whole class of innovators and entrepreneurs who didn’t see a nuclear wasteland where the economy used to be. When most people asked “what’s next?” Old Problems, New Paradigms .