- April 27, 2023
Sometimes change is a good thing, and sometimes entire business sectors find their level and stick with it. Until something changes.
Change isn’t in the cards for this edition of the ...
- March 20, 2023
When a Top 10 list only features eight brands you know they’re something special, and the Provider Ranking of Personal Loans Apps is exactly that.
The Top 5
MoneyLion roars at No. ...
- June 13, 2022
There’s only one change of position in PYMNTS’ latest Provider Ranking of Personal Loan apps, but it’s a big one — there’s a new leader.
Last month’s leader and runner-up have ...
- May 18, 2022
Like the payments to be made on a personal loan, the competitors in PYMNTS’ latest Provider Ranking of Personal Loan Apps are predictable and evenly spaced out.
They’re predictable because the ...
- April 14, 2022
Folks responsible for lending probably tend to be cautious. You could say the same for the latest edition of PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking of Personal Loan Apps, as all eight contenders ...
- March 9, 2022
Never a lull at PYMNTS’ Provider Ranking Research Facility and Café, deep in a hidden mountain fortress the location of which cannot be disclosed at this time. Or at any ...
- January 20, 2022
Stolen identities are available for as little as $8 on the dark web, making new account fraud more commonplace and usernames and passwords an ineffective authentication tool. In the Monetizing ...
- January 19, 2022
Customer onboarding must be seamless, effective and satisfactory for customers. Still, these objectives often run into the other major goal of customer onboarding: weeding out potential bad actors that wish ...
- December 16, 2021
Avant, a FinTech focused on getting credit access for middle-income consumers, announced Thursday (Dec. 16) that is has expanded its portfolio with the launch of Avant Banking.
Avant Banking will come ...
- December 6, 2021
Whatever your plans for a loan, you want to make sure the lender is one that’s right for you and their app is one that can get the job done.
The PYMNTS Provider ...
- June 17, 2021
The last 16 or so months has triggered a full reset of almost every part of consumers’ lives, as they were forced to rewire themselves to work in a world on ...
- April 8, 2021
In today’s top news in digital-first banking, TrueLayer landed $70 million in a funding round headed up by Addition, while Envestnet had acquired Harvest Savings & Wealth Technologies. Plus, Avant ...
- April 7, 2021
FinTech Avant, which works to give underserved consumers access to credit, has acquired Zero Financial along with its neobank, Level, according to a press release. Terms of the deal were ...
- October 30, 2020
Maybe it’s a byproduct of that which shall not be named — by which we mean the pandemic — but PYMNTS’ Provider Rankings have been remarkably calm and unwavering throughout ...
- May 20, 2020
Personal loan apps are getting lots of attention during this time of incomprehensible financial doubt. Consumers are downloading and using these apps more now, and they’re still deciding on their ...
- March 3, 2020
Unsecured lending is the theme of this week’s PYMNTS Provider Ranking of Personal Loan Apps, which looks at this fascinating space with fresh eyes to reveal the trends. Personal loans ...
- April 15, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission announced on Monday (April 15) a $3.85 million settlement with online lender Avant over a lawsuit alleging the firm lied to customers and used other illegal tactics.
Specifically, ...
- April 15, 2019
Online lenders in the U.S. including LendingClub, Kabbage, and Avant are gearing up for a slowdown in the economy and are taking a look at their risk exposure as they ...
- October 24, 2018
HSBC Holdings announced that it is teaming up with online lender Avant to offer unsecured loans to consumers.
In the first half of 2019, HSBC’s U.S. arm will utilize Avant’s platform ...
- October 2, 2018
Avant is best known among its financial services peers as a FinTech firm, founded to throw automation and an artificial intelligence (AI)-enhanced underwriting process at the problem of creating accessible, ...
- June 27, 2018
Global Debt Registry (GDR) announced on Wednesday (June 27) the launch of its loan registry, created to verify and provide transparency for loan data on the cloud-based IBM Blockchain Platform. In ...
- June 12, 2018
In the early days of online lending, the big appeal was access to funds for potential borrowers with few, if any, options for securing capital.
Now, the tech-driven underwriting models that ...
- May 23, 2016
Consumer lending platform Avant is giving pink slips to 60 employees, or about 7 percent of its workforce.
The news came late last week amid what Crain’s Chicago Business said is “an abrupt ...
- April 11, 2016
As the wave of FinTech lenders who stepped into the markets after the financial crisis pushed much of their mainstream banking competition out of the game are coming into a ...
- August 21, 2015
Avant, the online lender that offers funds to consumers with less than stellar credit, has garnered debt financing from a series of big banks, Fortune reported on Thursday (Aug. 20).
The ...
