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US Average FICO Score Hits 700: A Milestone for Consumers

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FICO regularly tracks the national FICO Score distribution as an important gauge of US consumer credit behavior. When I last blogged about this topic based on data from April 2016, the key takeaway was “the beat goes on.” year-over-year decrease in the recent serious delinquency rate between April 2016 and 2017 (17.1%

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Sub-Prime Lending’s Late-Year Bounce

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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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Payday Lending’s Long, Strange Trip Through 2016

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Arguments about payday loans have a habit of quickly devolving from polarized to outright acrimonious pretty quickly — and 2016 has seen that habit get very, very ingrained. Payday lenders are not to allow consumers to reborrow immediately or carry more than one loan. Spoiler: The situation is more complicated than you’ve heard.

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US Credit Quality Rising … The Beat Goes On

FICO

When I last blogged about the national distribution of FICO® Scores a year ago , US consumer credit quality was continuing to climb upwards, though with some potential indications of change ahead. The number of consumers scoring in the super-prime range of 800 or above has continued to grow. as of April 2016. in October 2010.

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MercadoCredito Cracks The Code On Lending To The Un- And Underbanked In Brazil

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The consumer has learned how to really work with eCommerce.”. What 2020 more or less forced consumers to do, he said, is climb over “the barrier of that first purchase” that had heretofore kept them out of the digital-first economy. Consumers in Brazil, he said, have also found a love of contactless payments.

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4 Analytic Predictions for 2017 – From Killer Devices to AI Hype

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In many ways I think 2016 was the year that analytics hit the mainstream. At cocktail parties and in coffee shops, 2016 has been the year that we data scientists suddenly felt a bit like – dare I say it? analytics 2016” returned 52.3 rock stars. million hits. million hits.

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8 Southeast Asian Fintechs Featured in Forbes Asia 100 to Watch List

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The platform integrates effortlessly into marketplaces, e-commerce websites, ERP, and accounting systems, delivering a consumer-grade experience that distinguishes it from traditional digital lenders and invoice financing companies in the B2B sector. Fluid secured in February 2024 a US$5.2 With a US$6.6

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