PYMNTS

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And in banking, financial institutions can incorporate artificial intelligence into their consumer credit strategies at a time when a retroactive approach to credit risk management has become less feasible amid COVID-19. 80%: Share of banking interactions done online in 2020. All this, Today in Data.

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PYMNTS

JULY 8, 2020

AI Also Helps Manage Credit Risk. For instance, Mastercard has been using AI to help its banking partners with credit risk management, aiming to provide the right amount of credit to customers — and the smartest collections efforts — in today’s uncertain economic climate.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 1, 2020

invoice insurance provider Nimbla is teaming up with the credit risk assessment firm Wiserfunding , according to a report in Crowdfund Insider on Friday (May 29). s SMEs if they combine the various innovations from the FinTech space, insurance and risk management sectors.”.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Banks are finding it more difficult than ever to ignore potential FinTech partnerships that could better serve their corporate customers. When it comes to corporate treasury, business clients demand robust solutions and services from their banks, and FinTech players are stepping in to help. Managing Risk.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 10, 2020

Inaccurate and slow credit risk assessment for [small- to medium-sized business (SMB)] commercial loan requests is one of the major reasons that over 50 [percent] of loans are currently declined by financial institutions (FIs),” said Roger Vincent, chief innovation officer at Trade Ledger.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Serent’s focus has been on companies selling what he calls "picks and shovels" into FinTechs, lenders and other constituents instead of investing directly into banks and lenders. He said he believes there will be a continued trend of banks and lenders that rely on best-in-class third-party software vendors to differentiate their offerings.

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The Finance Weekly

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

A notable example is the Bank of America, which employs AI to maintain the integrity of transactions and combat fraud. By scrutinizing various data points such as payment history and IP addresses, the bank swiftly , identifies anomalies.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has, as finews.asia reported this past week, amended its credit risk management guidelines in a way that seeks to boost the embrace of analytics when lending to smaller firms. Open Banking Partnerships – Focus On Romania. Cash invested on the platform, said the company, stands at $2.7

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PYMNTS

JUNE 23, 2017

LexisNexis Risk Solution, a data and analytics company that helps loaners assess the risk of small business lending to borrowers, is teaming up with Cortera to add its trade credit analytics capabilities into the mix.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

14) that the company is entering the small business finance space with a new platform that adds to its existing consumer lending, credit risk and portfolio risk management offerings for financial institutions. Reports said Monday (Nov. ”

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

The company, which provides data and business intelligence solutions, like credit ratings and research for the financial world, said Thursday (Feb. Finagraph similarly provides automated data aggregation and analysis, with a focus on helping banks be able to assess the creditworthiness of small and medium-sized enterprises.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 6, 2017

The company said Wednesday (April 5) that it is rolling out its Origination Manager Essentials solution for mid-market banks and credit unions. The tool uses FICO’s existing Small Business Scoring Service, the company noted, and allows banks and credit unions to make a loan application decision in as quick as one minute.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Banks and credit unions that handle their own credit card programs are also likely to face another challenge in the near term. The credit cycle will turn, and you’ll have a generation of credit risk managers who’ve not been through a recession yet. Near-Term Challenges.

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Future CFO

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Central banks are also pushing their supervised entities to go digital and prepare for their requirements and rewards. In the Philippines, the race on who can implement the best digital strategies and increase the use of digital banking among its clients and customers are on. No one was talking or worrying about NPL and reserves.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 10, 2018

According to the People’s Bank of China, small businesses accounted for about a third of all outstanding loans in the country as of April of last year. “When these constitute a sizable proportion of a company’s total annual turnover, their cash flow may be at risk.”.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

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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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Joining PYMNTS’ Karen Webster for this week’s edition of the Unscripted Podcast, the pair agreed that in the digital age, risk management is such a complex, interconnected and vast topic that payments service providers in some sense need to write an entirely new rule book when to comes to capturing the emerging art of risk management. “On

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 4, 2019

India’s FinBox landed an undisclosed amount of pre-Series A funding, reports in Inc42 said this week, with investors at Arali Ventures leading the investment in the credit risk management technology startup. Australia’s ANZ Bank led a $1.56 Australia’s ANZ Bank led a $1.56 ForwardLine Financial.

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CFO Talks

DECEMBER 8, 2021

This is a role she’s performed since 2020 and a risk analyst at the South African Reserve Bank, while concurrently serving as a non-executive director at the Institute of Bankers of South Africa, on a pro bono basis. CIARAN RYAN: Okay, you’ve got quite an extensive career in banking. I love the regulatory space.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 11, 2018

That category, according to Burnside, contains about 145 million consumers – who, he noted, have very particular points of need where underwriting and risk management capabilities are severely underdeveloped. ” That does not make them an antagonist to banks. Breaking New Ground. .

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PYMNTS

MAY 17, 2017

Earlier this month, LexisNexis Risk Solutions said that its suite of products geared toward assisting lenders with account management can help mollify this challenge through its Small Business Monitoring, which draws on disparate data points to assess risk in a proactive manner.

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PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

“But what we found in the big picture — and we don’t think this is a terribly counterintuitive finding — is that the way someone performs in their academic life turns out to be a very good predictor of how the will quantitatively perform from a credit risk standpoint in the future.”.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 7, 2018

Most business still looked to banks, despite the fact that in the wake of the financial crisis and subsequent credit crunch, lending from banks more or less ground to a halt where SMBs were concerned. And for a very good reason: SMB lending is a tough business to be in, Lifshitz told Webster.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 22, 2021

Given the roller coaster ride consumer finances have been on for the last 10 months, managing risk has become critical for financial institutions (FIs), both in terms of rising fraud counts and in terms of rising consumer delinquencies. Driving Actionable Intelligence In Real Time. And these models aren’t one-off events.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The DOJ investigation centered on whether LendingClub had – between January 2009 to September 2010 – misled its FDIC-insured loan originator, WebBank , leading the bank to underwrite over 200 loans that did not conform to the bank’s lending requirements. The Rundown on the Run-up to the Decisions.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 6, 2018

Most business still looked to banks – despite the fact that in the wake of the Financial Crisis and subsequent credit crunch lending from banks more or less ground to a halt where SMBs were concerned. And for a very good reason: SMB lending is a tough business to be in, Lifshitz told Webster.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 17, 2020

In financial fraud, the breaches come when bank standards are lax. Australian bank Westpac Banking Corp. And that guiding principle is what leads fraudsters and bad actors to probe systemic vulnerabilities in banks’ compliance processes. may stand as Exhibit A here. There was no evidence of intentional wrongdoing.”.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 5, 2024

And so I remember back, back in 2005 when we first started, you know, we think about the banks. The banks would have an equity trading desk and they’d have a debt desk, right? And so it’s opportunities that, that have come out of this mainly are around the banks today. H how did you figure that out?

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 31, 2016

This week we got something of a combo platter of those theories: Millennials are shunning credit cards because they’ve been denied in the past, and, well, rejection hurts. percent of car-loan applications were rejected, according to research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. In the year that ended in June, only 5.2

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PYMNTS

JULY 11, 2017

The International Chamber of Commerce Banking Commission recently released a report that found an imbalance between supply and demand of trade finance services. Indeed, banks must tread carefully in the world of trade finance, and with such little room for error and financial losses, risk management is critical.

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PYMNTS

MAY 5, 2017

Using machine learning technology, the company offers personal credit evaluation, anti-fraud services and other data products, while additionally providing credit assessment and online loan management tools for banks and other lenders. W2 Global Data. Honorable Mentions.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

It’s a town of about 4,000 people, so exposure to markets or investment banking or any of the careers in finance was not something that you really envisioned. It was at Bank One, at the time. RITHOLTZ: There’s always risk involved with counterparties …. BITTERLY MICHELL: Always risk. BITTERLY MICHELL: … risk management.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 29, 2023

DAVIS: A big part of it is really around when there’s more complicated corporate actions that are happening that entail a level of risk. There’s conversations that happen with our risk management department to make sure we’re comfortable in terms of what kind of exposure that creates in the fund. RITHOLTZ: Yes.

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Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

The challenge is unlike the S&P 500, hedge funds sit in a box that has underlying credit risk from prime brokers. So the credit markets froze. Last question on ESG, certain folks have been saying, “Hey, you know, it works as a pretty good risk management filter. RITHOLTZ: And that was problematic.

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Barry Ritholtz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And then very soon after, you know, bear Stearns fails, Lehman Brothers fails, the cracks were massive and there were so much for selling from the trading desks at the banks. And we, we feel that a lot of phone calls, I think the most nervous we became was when the banks started failing. That had mismatched assets.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 9, 2019

Senate passed legislation that increased the SBA’s authority over the program, bolstering its credit risk management office, and increasing its oversight of its lending partners that facilitate the financing of small business loans via the program. Last year, the U.S. ”

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 12, 2024

And up until that moment in time, we didn’t spend a lot of time on credit risk in mortgages. We didn’t really have to model credit risk because that was, that risk was taken by the agencies. But in these private labels, you had the, the market was taking the credit risk.

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