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CFPB: Santander Must Pay $4.75 Million For Credit Reporting Violations

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Santander is an originator and servicer of non-prime auto loans and leases and provides credit information to CRAs via monthly data files, according to the CFPB release. The agency said the lender knew something was wrong as early as September 2016.

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Best of Show Winner 10x Banking Teams Up with Mortgage Origination Platform Mast

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The partnership between core banking platform, 10x Banking , and mortgage origination platform, Mast , will enable real-time connectivity between the two systems. Founded in 2016, 10x Banking won Best of Show in its Finovate debut last year at FinovateEurope. ” The collaboration comes with an API integration guide on 10x Docs.

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Payday Lending’s Long, Strange Trip Through 2016

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Arguments about payday loans have a habit of quickly devolving from polarized to outright acrimonious pretty quickly — and 2016 has seen that habit get very, very ingrained. Luckily, we have a handy roadmap right here — the PYMNTS PayDay Loan Chronicle 2016. Spoiler: The situation is more complicated than you’ve heard.

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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. This reverses the previous year’s trend, between 2016 and 2017, when sub-prime loan originations across categories fell by 7.1

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Wells Fargo Unveils New Account With Digital Payment Capabilities

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The San Francisco-based financial services giant’s decision to launch the checkless account, which has a monthly fee of $5, comes as Wells Fargo looks to reshape an image badly tarnished after 2016 revelations that bank employees opened millions of phony accounts in order to meet sales quotas.

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Fraud’s Frightening Surge

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The brand new October 2016 Global Fraud Attack Index™ , a PYMNTS and Forter collaboration, has some scary news for retailers, and it has nothing to do with Halloween. The rate of fraud attacks is up 39 percent in 2016 (through Q2), and the rate has risen 62 percent from Q3 2015. out of $100 is at risk for luxury goods.

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How Alliant Credit Union Reinvented Its Lending Program

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Alliant Credit Union , one of the largest credit unions in the United States, has transformed its consumer lending business and is exceeding its lending goals since implementing FICO technology solutions in 2016. Alliant started using the new CLOS for auto loans and credit cards in late 2016.