Alternative Financial Services

Scoring The Invisible Consumers Is Harder Than It Looks
Scoring The Invisible Consumers Is Harder Than It Looks
January 17, 2017  |  Alternative Finances

When asked, a majority of Americans can still remember what their SAT score was 20 years ago, despite the fact that SAT scores become precisely...

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WU, Saxo, Amex Take Corporate FX Market Share From Big Banks
WU, Saxo, Amex Take Corporate FX Market Share From Big Banks
January 12, 2017  |  B2B Payments

U.K. banks — and large banks everywhere — are losing market share in their corporate clients’ FX needs, new data revealed. According to reports Wednesday...

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The CFPB’s Uncertain 2017
The CFPB’s Uncertain 2017
January 03, 2017  |  CFPB

If asked in September about what kind of year 2017 was going to be, CFPB officials most likely would have spoken mostly about their ongoing...

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What We Learned About Alternative Finance In 2016
What We Learned About Alternative Finance In 2016
December 27, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

As often happens, the world we leave behind going out of 2016 is very different than the world we imagined 2016 would be going in....

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The Credit Scoring Crunch
The Credit Scoring Crunch
November 15, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Wanting to make financial services — particularly access to credit — more inclusive is a popular goal and a tricky needle to thread.  The benefits of inclusivity...

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Trigger Looks To Bring Hedge Fund Tools To Everyday Investors
Trigger Looks To Bring Hedge Fund Tools To Everyday Investors
June 20, 2016  |  Investments

Making it easy for the as-yet-uninitiated investor to jump into the market — or perhaps, more accurately, wade in slowly — has been a focus...

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Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts
Facing Tougher Times, Prosper Marketplace Is Making Deep Staff Cuts
May 04, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

Big cuts are coming to Prosper Marketplace. According to Wall Street Journal reports, the online lender is shedding 28 percent of its staff and rearranging...

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FICO’s New BFFs
FICO’s New BFFs
March 22, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

It was just a few months ago that FICO’s fading and inevitable fall was being widely speculated. Fair Isaac Corporation — the entity behind the FICO score...

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The Problems And Promise Of Postal Banking
The Problems And Promise Of Postal Banking
January 12, 2016  |  Alternative Finances

It is easy to overlook the problem of the unbanked and underbanked in the United States — if for no other reason than it is...

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