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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. The opportunity is also gigantic, Cheng told Webster, given that the country has some 800 million working adults, with less than half of them in possession of a credit card.

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PeopleFund Notches $11M In Series B Round

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In China , X Financial specializes in helping underserved prime borrowers and mass affluent investors by matching those borrowers with investors willing to loan them money. X Financial’s offerings include a balance transfer credit card product and an unsecured, high-credit-limit loan product.

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Prosper Extends Credit to 200K Near-Prime Clients with FICO Scores

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Prosper also proactively mitigates credit risk and meets the increasing credit demand for creditworthy customers based on their monthly updated FICO® Scores. As of March 2023, Prosper has effectively managed credit limit changes for over 25,000 customers, with over 70 percent of them receiving credit limit increases.

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How A Bank And A FinTechs Are Jointly Cracking The Code On Financial Inclusion

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According to Orloff, LendUp and Beneficial State came up with the idea to offer a socially responsible credit card product several years ago, but it only came to market this spring. percent – for a credit card than the national average, but according to The PEW Charitable Trusts, is a fraction of the payday lending rate, which is around 400%.

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Petal CEO: Using Cashflow — Not FICO — To Issue Credit Cards

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Using their technology to analyze that kind of data, Gross noted, means they will be able to accept more customers and, in general, offer higher credit limits to customers (up to $10,000) because they have a much clearer picture of what they can afford. about their vision,” Gross noted.

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Finding A Better Credit Fix For Near-Prime Customers

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They are just vastly underserved. credit cards in their wallet. Habgood said that, as the credit markets are currently designed, these consumers must often choose between two imperfect options. And this, he told PYMNTS, isn’t a niche class of borrowers, of whom anyone would call underbanked. The Middle-class Gap.

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HSBC Now Accepts Overseas Credit History, But Why is Financial Inclusion Seeing so few Advancements?

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Time to rethink access barriers Ivo Gueorguiev, co-founder of Paynetics “HSBC’s recent move to accept overseas credit histories for UK mortgages is a strong start, but real financial inclusivity needs broader, tech-driven solutions,” explains Ivo Gueorguiev , co-founder at payment service provider Paynetics.