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Consumers Get Choosier About Credit

Consumers Get Choosier About Credit
Consumers Get Choosier About Credit
October 07, 2026  |  Consumer Finance

Consumer credit is still growing, but consumers eased off the form of borrowing they can adjust most readily from month to month. Federal Reserve data...

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Experian Launches New Credit Reporting Agency to Deliver Cash Flow Insights
Experian Launches New Credit Reporting Agency to Deliver Cash Flow Insights
October 06, 2026  |  Loans

Experian has launched a new consumer reporting agency that helps financial institutions leverage consumer-permissioned cash flow insights to support underwriting decisions, the company said in...

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Lenders Find Creditworthy Borrowers Hiding in the Data
Lenders Find Creditworthy Borrowers Hiding in the Data
October 06, 2026  |  Loans

A credit file doesn’t capture every signal lenders can use to judge whether a borrower will repay. Roughly 25 million U.S. adults lack enough recent...

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OCC Grants Clean Bill of Health to 13 Banks in Latest Community Lending Audit
OCC Grants Clean Bill of Health to 13 Banks in Latest Community Lending Audit
October 02, 2026  |  Bank Regulation

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency rated three banks “outstanding” and 10 “satisfactory” in its latest list of banks examined for Community Reinvestment...

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SEC Calls for Greater Rigor in Valuing Private Credit Assets
SEC Calls for Greater Rigor in Valuing Private Credit Assets
September 28, 2026  |  Legal & Regulation

The Securities and Exchange Commission is calling on the financial industry to take care in valuing private assets, including private credit, according to a Monday...

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Affirm Bets on Where Borrowers Are Headed
Affirm Bets on Where Borrowers Are Headed
September 21, 2026  |  BNPL

Watch more: Monday Conversation With Affirm’s Libor Michalek Picture someone who had a bad year. A few bills went unpaid, and their credit score took...

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Younger Cardholders Tell Issuers What Would Get Them to Use Their Cards More
Younger Cardholders Tell Issuers What Would Get Them to Use Their Cards More
September 21, 2026  |  Artificial Intelligence

Issuers can invest in faster, more precise credit decisions, but those improvements alone may not persuade customers to change how they pay. Cardholders need to...

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Avant Joins FinTech Push to Bring Banking In-House
Avant Joins FinTech Push to Bring Banking In-House
September 18, 2026  |  Banking

FinTech company Avant filed an application to establish an insured national bank called Avant Bank, N.A., the company said in a Friday (Sept. 18) press...

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