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Top 10 Buy Now, Pay Later Players (BNPL) in India in 2024

Fintech News

Similarly, Slice, originally a BNPL firm, has transitioned to offering prepaid credit cards and is now merging with North East Small Finance Bank. Amazon Pay Later offers several benefits, including an instant decision on the credit limit, no processing or cancellation fees, and no charges for early repayment.

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Sub-Prime Lending’s Late-Year Bounce

PYMNTS

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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Pleo Eyes Expansion as HSBC Grants €40million Debt Financing Facility to Fintech Unicorn

The Fintech Times

European spend management platform Pleo has secured a €40million debt financing facility from HSBC Innovation Banking UK , the specialist financial partner for the innovation economy, enabling Pleo to offer higher credit limits to even more customers, providing greater flexibility in financial options available to them.

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Capital One, Discover Tightening Lending Standards

PYMNTS

Capital One Financial and Discover Financial Services, two of the largest credit card issuers in the country, are tightening lending standards, which is reportedly an unusual move in an economy that is booming. Discover has also said it expects the losses on personal loans to increase, and has cut back on loan originations as a result.

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Cash or Credit: A Millennial Story

FICO

FICO's research also found that they are more interested than other generational groups in receiving notifications from their card provider on upcoming or missed payments, suspicious account activity and credit limit warnings. Helping to build a base of new Millennial clients is of the first critical step in those efforts.

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Addressing Portfolio Risk in Economic Uncertainty: Part 3 (2022)

FICO

For revolving credit portfolios in particular, proper attention must be directed toward maintaining asset and revenue growth. By constraining credit exposure across more sensitive customer segments, the delinquency impacts associated with unexpected economic downturns can be mitigated.

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Brex and Navan Join Forces to Launch Business Travel and Payments Solution

Finovate

By combining Brex’s multi-faceted financial infrastructure with Navan’s travel management system, companies benefit from higher credit limits, local currency options, and automated reconciliation, making it easier to scale travel programs globally while saving time and reducing costs. negative backlash.