Fintech Review

APRIL 11, 2025

A Brief History of Fintech The origins of fintech can be traced back to the 1960s. They use alternative credit scoring methods and automated underwriting. Financial Inclusion Fintech improves access to credit, savings, and insurance in underserved markets. It represents a shift in mindset: finance as a service, not a place.

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Fintech News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The APIs has not only helped platform partners unlock new revenue opportunities, more importantly, it has allowed ANEXT Bank to engage and enable the ecosystem of partners to accelerate and scale financial inclusion for unserved and underserved MSMEs. The company replaces traditional B2B payment methods (e.g.

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PYMNTS

JULY 16, 2019

Last year, Lendbuzz’s loan origination grew 320 percent, and the company increased its dealership network across the United States to include key markets, including California and Florida. “We developed a unique underwriting platform based on alternative data points to evaluate credit risk.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

He pointed to brands and merchants like Dunkin and Dollar General, marked by underserved populations that could benefit by better economics than has been seen with prepaid cards or payday lending. Figure Pay, he said, debuts in January in Missoula, Montana, and then will see a broader rollout through the quarter. “As

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

“If you’re a lender who wants to get serious about commercial lending to small and medium-[sized] growth businesses [SMBs], we can help you originate and underwrite deals faster and more efficiently, as well as maintain a clearer view of how each business in your portfolio is performing. or the U.S.,

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Fintech News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Rapid digitalisation, a young internet-savvy population, and underserved markets make the region ripe for fintech disruption. Originating from Melbourne, Airwallex has swiftly expanded in eight years, providing businesses with international money transfer services and multi-currency accounts.

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Finezza

APRIL 23, 2025

In 2022, around 160 million people in India were credit-underserved. One reason for this is the overreliance on traditional scoring models, which typically consider parameters such as payment history, debt-to-income ratio, and length of credit.

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Finezza

APRIL 23, 2025

In 2022, around 160 million people in India were credit-underserved. One reason for this is the overreliance on traditional scoring models, which typically consider parameters such as payment history, debt-to-income ratio, and length of credit.

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Fintech News

JUNE 4, 2025

With a very clear mandate to serve the underserved, we have the natural appetite to try and test,” Pei-Si Lai, Group CEO of GXS Bank clarified. Pei-Si believes this type of contextual underwriting is key to unlocking access for underserved users, calling it a true example of credit innovation in action.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 7, 2019

In the meantime, banks and FinTechs appear eager to collaborate and promote adoption of the technologies and emerging services that are available today — and eager to test how these tools can positively impact small businesses, a market Thyagarajan said is significantly “underserved” today.

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Finextra

JULY 7, 2025

Traditional areas like fraud prevention (65%), credit underwriting (62%) and regulatory compliance (58%) are still heavily prioritized, reflecting that these were some of the first uses of AI in banking and continue to be critical for reducing losses.

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CB Insights

OCTOBER 10, 2018

What these startups share is the goal of creating customer-centric banking products that target underserved individuals and businesses. Many of the startups disrupting banking are reaching customers who are either underserved by existing bank accounts or do not qualify to open an account (unbanked). Underbanked/Unbanked.

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FICO

JULY 15, 2022

It means the inclusion of credit markets that are less developed, where a larger part of the population is underserved. We believe that the best way to score more people is to use more data, to leverage alternative data to shine a light on the people who are currently underserved. For FICO, it means taking the technology global.

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CB Insights

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding. Additionally, the company must underwrite risk, and is on the hook in the event of fraud or returned items. ‘PayFac’ technology simplifies underwriting and onboarding merchants. TABLE OF CONTENTS. A decade of online payments innovation.

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Payment Savvy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

It also streamlines a range of services that businesses depend on, from loan underwriting to real estate appraisals. By merging artificial intelligence with data about consumers, fintech companies can gain deeper insights into their customers, which in turn fuels the engines of marketing efforts for products and underwriting processes.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 21, 2017

The problem, according to O’Neil, is that to build a good algorithm one needs to do math, which leads people to jump to the erroneous conclusion that algorithms themselves are as neutral as the math that is their origin. But that, O’Neil said, simply isn’t true. No one wants to be biased.

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Lending Front

JULY 14, 2021

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) play an instrumental role in revitalizing the economy by delivering loans to small businesses in low-income, underserved communities. Because of this decision, the awarded funds can translate to more than $10B in the accounts of underserved small businesses.

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Lending Front

JUNE 29, 2021

Over the past year, the mission driving all CDFIs—delivering loans to small businesses in low-income, underserved communities—has become a topic of national interest, aligning with the priorities of the American government as it tries to rebuild our economy.

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CB Insights

JUNE 17, 2020

Industry proponents have been making the case for telehealth for years, pointing to its potential to lower costs, ease pressure on overextended healthcare systems, and make care more accessible in rural and underserved areas. These strengths are likely to continue to appeal to manufacturers after the immediate threat of Covid-19 has receded.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 7, 2016

Yes, the sobering reality of having to really make money has become an unwelcome wake-up call for those who masked the real value of their business with the never-ending piles of VC cash that just kept underwriting losses and kicked the revenue can way down the road. Here in the U.S., Instantly, and irrevocably.

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