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Citi fined $25.9M over alleged discrimination

Payments Dive

The bank, between 2015 and 2021, denied certain credit card products to applicants with surnames ending in “ian” and “yan,” suffixes that Citi employees associated with Armenian national origin, the CFPB said.

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Stan Chooses Stripe to Improve Business Agility with Payments and Billing

Fintech Finance

The company, launched in 2015, is known for providing Australians with unlimited access to thousands of hours of entertainment including first-run exclusive shows, original productions, movies, kids programming, and sport, all ad-free.

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Digital Onboarding Raises $58 Million

Finovate

” Brown founded Digital Onboarding, originally known as SalesBrief, in 2015, along with his co-founder Jonathan Crossman. Making these as accessible and easy to complete as possible has a measurable positive impact on customer retention and loyalty.”

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Square Said To Mull Buy of Jay-Z’s TIDAL Music-Streaming Service

PYMNTS

While TIDAL doesn’t give out subscriber, user or financial data, its website claims to have more than 70 million songs and 250,000 high-quality videos in its catalog, along with original video series and podcasts. Like Twitter, Square is a publicly traded company and has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since 2015.

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Google Moves Expedition VR Tool To Culture App For Home Learning

PYMNTS

The original Expeditions Pioneer Program launched in 2015 for educators and in 2016 was made available on the Android operating system. “As always, we’ll continue to share updates, user tips and gather feedback, and we look forward to continuing our support for the educational journeys of people around the world,” she added.

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FICO Resilience Index Now Available for Lenders to Pilot

FICO

Analysis of FICO® Resilience Index data by Tom Parrent, former chief risk officer for Genworth Financial, shows that from 2010 to 2015, nearly 600,000 additional mortgages could have been originated to consumers with FICO® Scores between 680 and 699, had the FICO® Resilience Index been available to lenders at the time.

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Mortgage Lender LoanDepot Seeking Over $300 Million In IPO

PYMNTS

Despite the headwinds originally against us, we had a vision, and we never lost our focus. “We chose to enter the market at a time when few were willing to take the chance, and even fewer were succeeding. LoanDepot’s IPO was announced in September, with PYMNTS reporting the company worth as much as $15 billion.