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Merchant Underwriting: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It’s Important

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The merchant underwriting process is a critical step that payment processors and financial institutions use to assess the risk associated with onboarding new businesses. Key steps include application review, risk assessment, credit checks, and compliance verification. Learn More What is Merchant Account Underwriting?

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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

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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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Understanding Risk Management Strategies as a PayFac

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As such, PayFacs need to equip themselves with an effective risk management strategy that helps them continuously monitor risks and employ appropriate risk responses if needed. TL;DR Four main types of risks come with payment facilitation: compliance risks, operational risks, transactional risks, and reputational risks.

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Valiram Taps Atome to Offer ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ in Malaysia and Singapore

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Andy Tan “Combining our disciplined risk management and underwriting technology with Valiram’s portfolio of world-class luxury and lifestyle brands supports their expansion into new consumer segments and business growth. said Mukesh Valiram, Executive Director of Valiram. said Andy Tan, Chief Commercial Officer, Atome.

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Thredd Strengthens Global Leadership With Strategic Senior Appointments

Fintech Finance

Patricia previously served as VP of Technology Operations and Delivery at Zopa, where she led risk management and process improvements, and Senior Director of Software Engineering at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, spearheading AML and compliance technology initiatives.

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91 companies digitizing and accelerating the loan underwriting process

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Loan underwriting is a slow and complex process, due to insufficient data for credit scoring, stringent risk management requirements, and highly manual processes. This has cleared the way for new tech solutions that can effectively reduce costs and risk, while also improving speed. Fraud is also a concern.

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WePay On The Art Of Payments Risk Management

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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