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SMB Loan Underwriting Prepares For Turbulent Times

PYMNTS

But after years of finding SMBs too unprofitable to finance, lenders have to play catch-up to develop better underwriting processes for greater accuracy and efficiency. “But at the same time, they have all lacked a credible tool to conduct an assessment of these [SMBs] in an independent way.”

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CredAble Partners with Chekk to help Financial Institutions digitally and securely scale working capital programs worldwide with advanced KYC, KYB, Business Registries Access, and AML Solutions

Fintech Finance

By leveraging data sources across 220 countries & territories, the collaboration will provide region-specific solutions and access to business-relevant data along with documents and risk assessment models to help FIs onboard clients, vendors and dealers digitally and securely.

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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

Stax

Several US legislations (like the Patriot Act, anti money laundering laws , or FinCEN regulations) require PayFacs to know the identities of the business owner(s) they plan to facilitate payments for, during the underwriting stage. This requires sound underwriting policies and procedures. This means PayFacs always need to be vigilant.

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Insurers Take The Guesswork Out Of Small Business Cyber Insurance

PYMNTS

The cyber insurance market is an emerging sector, Sayata Labs CEO and Co-Founder Asaf Lifshitz explained in a recent interview with PYMNTS, and insurance providers are facing some tough hurdles in underwriting and risk mitigation. Rapid Expansion. Technology, Partnerships Address the Gaps. ”

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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

Stax

In this article, we’ll discuss what SaaS companies looking to become payment facilitators need to know about risk management strategies. PayFacs handle risk assessment, underwriting, settling of funds, compliance, and chargebacks which exposes them to greater potential risks.

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Online Lending’s New Problem? Loan Stacking

PYMNTS

While some lenders actually embrace the practice, viewing it as a form of loan consolidation, others argue the practice can obscure the true risk of a borrower. ” OnDeck and Prosper, meanwhile, told reporters that they have integrated algorithms in their risk assessment strategies to detect and avoid loan stacking.

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Cybersecurity Insurance, AI and Chatbots

FICO

Our FICO ESS customer, Barbican Insurance Group , participated in an excellent panel discussion about the evolution of the underwriting process. Barbican’s Cyber Business Group Leader, Graeme King, explained, “Risk and IT can be disconnected in respect of to cyber insurance. FICO ESS is a powerful risk mitigation tool.