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Sub-Prime Lending’s Late-Year Bounce

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According to the latest Q3 2018 TransUnion’s Industry Insights Report the back half of 2018 has been a good year for sub-prime borrowers looking for access to credit. Sub-prime issuing also ticked up 3.6 percent, which had not been the previous year’s trend. percent in last year’s third quarter to 6.82

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China’s X Financial Has A New US IPO And 400M P2P Leads

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Banks offer credit limits to borrowers that would seem punitively low in much of the Western world, so there is a pent-up demand for online alternatives. X Financial offerings include a balance-transfer credit card product and an unsecured, high-credit-limit loan product. The company has facilitated 1.7

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UK Cards Delinquencies Show Troubling Trends

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All average delinquent balances reached over two-year highs in the fourth quarter of 2018. The last time 1 cycle average balances were higher than December 2018 was 7 years ago and 2 and 3 cycles 8 years ago, in and post the last economic downturn. Accounts 1 to 5 years on book (Established) the highest % of balances in December 2018.

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Everything You Need To Know About What Amazon Is Doing In Financial Services

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In December 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon was looking at airports as a potential Amazon Go partner. With the card, parents can manage spending limits and allocate funds for their children through a mobile app. In 2018, the Financial Times reported that Amazon’s lending business growth may be slowing as it grew only 4.7%

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Stripe Teardown: How The $35B Payments Company Plans To Supercharge Online Retail

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Michelle Wilson, formerly General Counsel at Amazon (2018). Jonathan Chadwick, former CFO of VMware, Skype, and McAfee (2018). David Singleton , who joined Stripe in 2018 as the CTO. Stripe also launched its Billing product in 2018 to cater to the rapidly growing subscription e-commerce market. Source: Stripe.

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FCA Persistent Debt Rules – Options for Alerting Customers

FICO

A formal policy statement has yet to be issued by the FCA, but the FCA indicate that it will published in Q4 2017 and it suggests some new rules that might potentially become law in 2018, including: From early 2018 issuers will need to alert their cardholders of any offers/promotions that are about to expire.

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Discover’s Q4 Revenue Narrowly Misses Wall Street Expectations

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The company’s return on equity for the fourth quarter of 2018 was 25 percent. The 30+ day delinquency rate for credit card loans came in at 2.43 In October, Discover, which is one the largest largest credit card issuers in the country, revealed that it was becoming more cautious in how it deals with credit limits.