Credit risk

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/markets

CFPB proposes rule for paycheck advance products

The interpretive rule is designed to help ensure US workers know the costs and fees of paycheck advance products.

/people

Lloyds Bank cuts risk dept headcount

UK high street bank Lloyds Bank is reducing the size of its risk management department because it is seen as a “blocker” to the bank’s “strategic transformation”.

/wholesale

Mastercard invests in Hello Alice

Hello Alice, a platform connecting small businesses to capital, connections and opportunities, has closed a Series C funding round joined by QED Ventures and Mastercard.

/startups

Sweden's Scayl raises €100m to address fintech lending gap

Swedish startup Scayl, a debt financing platform based in Stockholm, has raised €100M to address a lending gap in the fintech sector.

/retail

Experian consumer credit reports to include Apple Pay Later information

Experian has announced it will be the first credit bureau to include Apple’s buy now pay later (BNPL) loan information on consumers’ credit reports.

/retail

Westpac and nCino lead $28 million round in Rich Data Co

Westpac and nCino have led a $28 million funding round in Rich Data Co, an Australian AI decisioning platform for bank business lending.

/wholesale

Wells Fargo backs $70m fund to help underserved SMEs access credit

Wells Fargo is backing a new $70 million “equitable access fund” from Hello Alice and the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) that will target underserved high-potential but credit-challenged small business owners.

/markets

BNP Paribas and NatWest go live with CobaltFX Dynamic Credit

BNP Paribas and NatWest are going live with technology from CobaltFX that is designed to simplify and streamline the allocation of credit for FX transactions between banks and improve access to liquidity.

/regulation

Qred wins banking licence

Swedish credit scoring platform Qred is to become Europe's newest bank, having been granted a full banking licence by the country's financial regulator.

/startups

AdalFi raises $7.5 million to fix Pakistan's broken lending system

AdalFi, a Pakistan-based fintech providing credit scoring data and lending technology to banks, has raised $7.5 million in Seed funding.

/payments

PayPal to ride out social media backlash over misinformation policy change

Online payments giant PayPal is unlikely to suffer any significant impact from a customer backlash over a supposed charge for users spreading misinformation, acccording to financial analysts.

/markets

Afme urges caution on European move to T+1

A move by Europe to a one-day settlement cycle (T+1) could bring significant benefits but would face a host of barriers, cautions a paper from Association for Financial Markets in Europe (Afme).

/retail

Alloy raises $52m for global expansion

Alloy, the New York-based company behind an operating system that helps banks and fintechs make better identity and risk decisions, has raised $52 million at a $1.55 billion valuation.

/startups

Starling posts first profitable year

UK digital bank Starling has turned a £32m profit for the last financial year, marking its first full year of profitability.

/inclusion

Mexican startup becomes latest unicorn

A Mexican startup has become the latest fintech to gain unicorn status.

/wholesale

Fin VC and Barclays invest in invoice insurance platform Nimbla

Invoice insurance startup Nimbla has attracted £5.1 million in funding from Silicon Valley's FIN VC with participation from Barclays Bank.

/identity

Identity decisioning platform Alloy moves into credit underwriting

Alloy, the recently named unicorn, has expanded its identity decisioning platform to include credit underwriting, with the intention of building comprehensive views of customers in line with their onboarding and transaction monitoring products.

/retail

Credit Kudos launches Open Banking credit score

Credit Kudos has launched Signal, an Open Banking and machine learning-based credit score that it says enables lenders to increase acceptance of previously declined customers and reduce defaults.

/regulation

Klarna faces data privacy investigation in Sweden

Sweden's financial watchdog is investigating whether buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) fintech Klarna violated bank secrecy laws following a security breach in May.

/sustainable

How to reimagine risk modelling in sustainable finance

From 8-9 December 2020, Finextra and ResponsibleRisk brought together experts in the sustainable finance space to discuss how stakeholders can re-imagine the role of risk modelling.