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Why Digital Lenders Are Tightening Their Lending Criteria

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Now, the tech-driven underwriting models that promised to assess risk more accurately, and extend credit more efficiently, may be confirmation that traditional risk and lending business models may have more going for them than their new, FinTech challengers once thought. The Coming Risk Assessment Reset. ” Will those securities pay?

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The 2019 GonzoBanker Awards

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There is an understanding that technology and fintech are going to cause radical change, but the how, how big and when are still very unclear. Brown gives his employees $100 to go open accounts across the Philadelphia area and then shares the results: good, bad and humorous. GonzoBankers, 2019 was a year of extremes. Might be time to.

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