PYMNTS

AUGUST 28, 2018

As of early 2018, U.S. BB&T is expecting to see loan growth between 2 to 4 percent in 2018. Citizens Bank , a regional player based in Rhode Island, for example, was looking for growth in its newest underwriting area — student loan refinancing. Early 2018 seemed to be the time for high hopes — and big expectations.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The firm believes that “household debt delinquencies are likely above their cycle low” and that “the effects of gradually-loosening underwriting standards and rising interest rates will begin to weigh on loan performance in the coming quarters.”. percent in Q4 of 2018.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 20, 2018

The online small business lending company cited data from the Equipment Leasing & Finance Association’s 2018 Survey of Equipment Finance Activity, that calculated an estimated $35 billion in new small-value (under $250,000) equipment loan and lease financing originated in the U.S.

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PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2019

Drilling down into the quarterly results , loan originations were up 8 percent from last year and totaled $636 million (up from $591 million last year) – and the firm has projected that such activity may be flat to perhaps down in the current quarter, with at least some rebound later in the year. percent, up from 2.2 percent last year.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 19, 2018

” In the summer of 2018, the company launched a pilot program to refer small businesses looking for equipment financing to a third party that originates and services the loans. Starting next year, OnDeck will offer its own equipment finance loans, ranging from $5,000 up to $100,000, with terms anywhere from 24 to 60 months.

Finance 44

Finance Small Business Origination Underwriting 44

FICO

AUGUST 15, 2018

The first clear trend observed around newly originated mortgages is that as we get further away from the Great Recession, underwriting criteria seems to have eased and a broader section of consumers are obtaining mortgages as a result. Mortgage Borrowers: Increases and Decreases to Their FICO Scores.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, affordable personal loans for consumers. These are massively complicated and expensive systems to build.

Underwriting 53

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) reports that new home mortgage originations are at their lowest levels in years. That said, originations are also down 5 percent year on year. And it is a decline likely to be felt, as non-bank lenders now represent the majority of mortgage underwriting done in the U.S.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding. Additionally, the company must underwrite risk, and is on the hook in the event of fraud or returned items. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding merchants. Michelle Wilson, formerly General Counsel at Amazon (2018).

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Payment APIs and Integration Online and Mobile Banking Payments Push-to-Card 98

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Charles Dickens’ famous starter to A Tale of Two Cities , as it turns out, is a pretty good way to sum up the year 2018 from the view of the alternative financial services segment. However, as 2018 wore on, headwinds started to blow back on the segment, most especially in the form of rising interest rates.

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Non-Bank Online and Mobile Banking Push-to-Card Consumer 58

PYMNTS

MARCH 29, 2019

Citing MineralTree’s 80 percent revenue growth in 2018, Great Hill Partners said the demand for AP automation solutions is on the rise, particularly in the middle market, with firms more focused on process optimization. The firm, based in Israel, uses artificial intelligence to underwrite cyber insurance for SMBs.

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B2B Treasury Small Business Cybersecurity 53

FICO

OCTOBER 10, 2022

A low FICO score for a consumer can have the perverse effect of preventing them from having access to a second chance through manual underwriting. And financial institutions use FICO® Scores to underwrite lending to millions of people so that they can achieve their financial goals like buying a first home or starting a business.

Consumer 52

Consumer Underwriting Credit Risk Assessments 52

CB Insights

DECEMBER 4, 2019

In December 2018, Reuters reported that Amazon was looking at airports as a potential Amazon Go partner. In March 2018, Greenlight Financial announced crossing 100,000 customers, growing its customer base 300% since the investment. The bulk of growth in 2017 was to businesses in the US, where the company originated $1B in loans.

Online and Mobile Banking 101

Online and Mobile Banking Push-to-Card Payment APIs and Integration Non-Bank 101

PYMNTS

MAY 22, 2018

indebtedness in 2018. Auto loan underwriting standards remain weak, and we expect credit card underwriting standards to deteriorate because lenders will likely grow complacent and increase the risk in their consumer loan portfolios — believing that they have plenty of time to tighten before the next downturn. Auto Lending.

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FICO

AUGUST 20, 2019

Partnering with the FICO team, we have significantly improved our origination efficiency while maintaining our risk profiles. Our new risk-based underwriting strategy is helping to us to maximize our overall profitability while expanding lending to millennials.”. Erpeng Zhang, director of credit card center, China Construction Bank.

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Fintech News

MAY 7, 2024

Established in 2018, HashKey Group is a leading end-to-end digital asset financial services group. Through its software platforms and products, Perfios helps financial institutions take big leaps by shaping their origination, onboarding, decisioning, underwriting and monitoring processes at scale and speed.

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Payment APIs and Integration Non-Bank Finance FinTech 126

Fintech News

MARCH 18, 2024

Originally established as Omise in Thailand in 2015, Opn has since expanded its footprint to encompass Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and the US. With the acquisitions, Roojai became a full digital insurance company with the license to underwrite general insurance products in Thailand.

FinTech 111

FinTech Online and Mobile Banking Blockchain Product 111

CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Investors are ramping up investment: In the first 10 months of 2018, this cohort has seen investors participate in 53 investments worth $1.72B, representing 57% of the $3B raised in the last 5 years. of monthly spend across 28 countries in Europe as of September 2018. valuation and crossed 1M accounts in September 2018.

Online and Mobile Banking 78

Online and Mobile Banking Debit Card Credit Cards Non-Bank 78

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. Those effects, however, were short-lived. So, Now What?

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P2P Origination Underwriting Returns 54

PYMNTS

OCTOBER 9, 2018

In the case of the latter, Palmer noted, selling loans after origination can still be a volatile proposition. Installment loans are nothing new, but the rise of FinTech brings with it data, risk scoring and machine learning to bear on underwriting decisions. Just look at LendingClub. A bit more below the surface, and in the U.S.

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Credit Risk Risk Credit Cards PayPal 64

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

While there were many provisions to the payday lending rules as originally passed, the one that caused the greatest controversy was the “ability to repay” provision that would have required short-term lenders to establish a borrower’s ability to repay before offering them a small-dollar, short-term lending product.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 11, 2017

That is important, he said, because if there is any regulatory uncertainy, it becomes very difficult to underwrite or originate small loans. If a bank has to manually underwrite lots of little loans for short periods of time, it chews up any profit they might make in offering a more reasonably priced alternative to payday lenders.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Underwriting an initial public offering (IPO) is a highly profitable business for an investment bank. For this work, the underwriting bank can make tens of millions from an IPO — whether or not the stock performs well. The lingering effects from the Covid-19 pandemic have pushed expected underwriting IPO revenue to just 7.5%

Underwriting 78

Underwriting Research Online and Mobile Banking Non-Bank 78

PYMNTS

APRIL 30, 2018

According to a Crunchbase article published in February of 2018, investments in blockchain and blockchain-related startups (excluding initial coin offerings, or ICOs) were already 40 percent of what they were in 2017. billion in 2018 from $945 million in 2017 and will grow more than 80 percent year over year to reach $9.7

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FinTech Blockchain Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) FTC 73

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 30, 2020

DoorDash originally expected to price its stock at $90 to $95, but ultimately sold shares at $102. In fact, big pops mostly just mean that underwriters priced an IPO’s stock too low. billion in 2018 based on $165 million funding round that included Google parent Alphabet. Then shares soared 85.8 percent to $158.22 on March 13.

Economy 79

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

For example, in 2018, 18% of American doctors reported treating a patient via telemedicine. Another company, Origin , was one of four 3D printing companies that received authorization to provide 3D-printed medical equipment directly to healthcare providers.

Posting 101

Posting Technology Online and Mobile Banking On-Demand 101

CB Insights

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The number of confirmed Bitcoin transactions per day has grown 8x from just over 50,000 in the summer of 2014 to more than 400,000 as of 2018. Each correspondent bank maintains different ledgers, at the originating bank and the receiving bank, which means that these different ledgers have to be reconciled at the end of the day.

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Blockchain Bitcoin Correspondent Bank Cryptocurrency 78

PYMNTS

JANUARY 19, 2021

At a high level, reported Politico, “Chopra can move quickly to restore the Office of Fair Lending, sidelined by former Acting Director Mick Mulvaney in 2017, to its original position, allowing fair lending staff to draw on both supervision and enforcement tools to combat discrimination.”. Looking at Payday Lenders .

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CFPB Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Federal Trade Commission FTC 57