10/3/2025 2:05:47 PM New approach to credit scoring data could reshape US home lending By Louden Richason The US company behind Fico homebuyer credit scores revealed plans to sell its ratings directly to industry data companies, thumping the...
7/22/2022 6:48:26 PM TomoCredit raises $22m in Series B funding By Cristobal de Atucha San Francisco based alternative credit card provider raised $22m in Series B funding led by Morgan Stanley’s Next Level Fund.
7/30/2021 4:29:43 PM FICO score’s hold on the credit market is slipping By FinTech Collective FICO scores are starting to fall out of vogue as banks and other financial institutions use their vast treasure trove of internal data to...
11/13/2020 1:58:08 PM Experian lets Brits use Netflix subscriptions to boost credit scores By Carlos Alonso Torras Experian is tapping Open Banking to help Brits instantly improve their credit scores by using their council tax and Netflix and Spotify...
2/13/2020 7:05:44 PM Nova Credit banks $50m to expand its service sourcing credit reports across borders By Faisal Kawar San Francisco based cross-border credit reporting platform raised $50m in Series B funding led by Kleiner Perkins.
12/6/2019 7:35:26 PM Experian announces credit score product combining traditional credit data with alternative data By Faisal Kawar Experian Lift, which will be available to lenders in 2020, enhances predictive performance by 23% when compared to other scores.
12/6/2019 7:18:33 PM Credit reporting agencies face pressure from skeptical U.S. Congress By Faisal Kawar The massive data breach disclosed by Equifax in 2017, where a cyber attack exposed the personal data of roughly 148 million people, has...
6/20/2019 12:00:00 AM MoneyLion featured by Benziga as a way to help improve credit scores By FinTech Collective Portfolio company MoneyLion is featured on Benziga as an online bank that can help improve consumers' credit scores. Not only are ML...
6/13/2019 7:08:50 PM Amazon launches a credit card for the ‘underbanked’ with bad credit By Carlos Alonso Torras The e-commerce giant has partnered up with the publicly traded Synchrony Financial to launch “Amazon Credit Builder” — a program that...
3/20/2018 7:40:29 PM Experian releases a new credit score aimed at non-prime borrowers By Sean Lippel Experian has been working with acquired company Clarity Services to create the Clear Early Risk Score, helping to score thin file...
9/29/2017 2:19:47 AM A Missing Piece in China’s Economy: Consumer Credit Ratings By Gareth Jones A lack of a single accepted standard, like FICO, is hampering access to credit for some 500 million potential Chinese borrowers.
9/15/2017 10:31:53 PM Should Equifax Be a Public Utility? By Gareth Jones Bloomberg explore the fact that credit bureaus have little incentive to take hackers seriously and discusses if they should indeed become...
9/8/2017 3:32:24 PM CreditVidya raises $5m Series B By FinTech Collective Mumbai based credit scoring platform CreditVidya has raised $5m in Series B funding led by Matrix Partners. CreditVidya is a startup that...
5/22/2017 6:12:24 PM Here's how your credit score really gets set By Sean Lippel Bloomberg sits down with credit expert and NerdWallet contributor Liz Weston on how to improve that three digit number that shapes your...
5/11/2017 6:06:09 PM Kreditech raises €110m financing By FinTech Collective Hamburg, Germany based credit score provider Kreditech has received €110m in a financing partnership with Dutch payments company PayU....
6/16/2016 6:39:16 PM FICO Acquires Cybersecurity Startup Quadmetrics to Offer Enterprise Security Scores By FinTech Collective Fair Isaac Corp, known for its FICO consumer-credit scores, acquired Ann Arbor-based cyber-security startup QuadMetrics. The terms of...