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Home Credit China Cuts Risk by 25 Percent on Thin File Loans

FICO

Home Credit , a global non-bank consumer lender, has successfully reduced its credit risk while maintaining loan volumes and keeping approval rates steady by incorporating the FICO® Score X Data to optimize its loan process in China. They are one of our most sophisticated clients in terms of advanced analytics.”. by FICO.

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Covid to Cost-of-Living: Assessing Affordability in Uncertain Times

FICO

Covid to Cost-of-Living: Assessing Affordability in Uncertain Times. Affordability Assessments and Unrestrained Lending. Triggered in part by the US housing market collapse and an unprecedented number of loan defaults, the crisis uncovered a shocking level of unrestrained lending and excessive risk taking. by Matt Cox.

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Understanding Credit Card Processing Fees for Merchants: How Much Does Processing Credit Cards Cost?

Stax

How Merchant Fees Are Made Up The unavoidable basics of credit card processing fees are interchange rates and assessment fees. Interchange Fees Although interchange fees go toward paying the issuing banks, the major credit card networks — Visa, Mastercard, and the likes — control the interchange rates.

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BNPL Profitability Remains Elusive Despite Rising Adoption

Fintech News

The BNPL platform then assesses their creditworthiness through a soft credit check. Once the platform approves the credit line, it pays the merchant the full amount of the goods purchased, thus taking on the customer’s credit risk.

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Are FICO Scores “Artificially Inflated?”

FICO

FICO Scores Are Not Fixed Estimates of Credit Risk. The FICO ® Score is designed to rank-order the likelihood that a borrower will repay their loan(s), with higher scoring borrowers representing lower risk, and lower scoring borrowers representing higher risk. So are FICO ® Scores “artificially inflated”?

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Uncertain Economic Signs Drive the Need for Sharper Analytics

FICO

Alongside this, the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent Woolard Review made 25 recommendations for stronger oversight of unsecured credit channels, increased regulation of buy now, pay later (BNPL) schemes, credit masking, improved credit decision-making, prescriptive forbearance and a review of repeat lending practices.

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Risk Model Management: 8 Factors for Reassessing ECL

FICO

Concentrations of risk – It’s worth being extra vigilant as to where exposure to credit risks are highest – be it by geography, region, commercial sector or customer segment. An up-to-date assessment of the impact of expected loss of cash inflows and outflows during the coming months and years will need close attention.

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