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Avant
Avant operates an online marketplace that provides users with access to personal loans to consolidate debt, pay unexpected medical expenses, and fund family vacations. Through machine learning, the company offers a customized approach to credit options.
Personal Loan Apps Show Resilience In Latest Provider Ranking
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 ...Personal Loan Apps Spike In Latest Provider Rankings
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 ...Personal Loan Apps Banking On Features
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 ...FTC Fines Avant $3.85M For Customer Deception
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, ...Online Lenders Prepare For A Recession
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 ...HSBC, Avant Team On Personal Loans
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 ...Avant Brings SaaS Lending Tech To Banks
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, ...Global Data Registry Launches Loan Registry On IBM Blockchain Platform
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 ...Why Digital Lenders Are Tightening Their Lending Criteria
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 ...Another Online Lender Announces Layoffs
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 ...FinTech Lenders Are Putting The Brakes On Customer Acquisitions
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 ...Banking Giants Back Online Lender Avant
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 ...