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Banks Aim AI At Credit Risk, Payments Services

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Of the seemingly inexhaustible uses of artificial intelligence (AI) in the financial sector, its applications around managing credit risk and optimizing payment services are among the most promising. percent are doing so in credit underwriting. percent of FIs reported using AI in credit underwriting.”.

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Why AI’s Early Adopters Are Laser-Focused On Credit Risk And Payments

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These circumstances have brought to the fore what has long been a central concern for lenders: assessing and managing credit risk. This vital task is complicated even in normal times due to the multitude of financial risk factors in play at any given time. percent employ it for credit underwriting.

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Bloomberg To Incorporate Credit Risk Data

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Bloomberg customers will now be able to use the news site's terminal to look at Credit Benchmark 's credit risk data, which comes from risk views of the world's largest financial institutions, according to a press release. Clients will also be able to use the data for an enterprise use case, the release stated.

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Today In B2B: ERPs Broaden B2B Payments Capabilities; Bloomberg Broadens Credit Risk Data Pool

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Today in B2B, Bloomberg broadens its credit risk data pool, and two ERP solutions secure B2B payments integrations. Bloomberg To Incorporate Credit Risk Data. The release stated firms have more often been looking for data to validate their own internal counterparty and credit risk assessment.

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Digital payments data is leaving old underwriting behind

Payments Source

Alternative lending companies are one of the strongest examples of how leveraging rich financial transaction data can be used to go beyond traditional credit risk assessments, says Finsync's Eddie Davis.

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Zest AI CEO: Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping Lending and Credit

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The fact is, they had a belief that by deploying machine-learning underwriting that they’d be able to create a more durable lending system that could weather the storm.”. The time for machine-learning underwriting is now, especially with the uncertainty of COVID and the uncertainty of next year's economic environment.”.

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Auto lenders lean into AI for customer service

Bank Automation

Auto lenders are incorporating artificial intelligence into their processes to improve customer service automation and credit decisioning while eyeing uses for underwriting.

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