While many financial institutions may be fearful of the risks associated with lending to thin-file consumers, there are numerous ways to expand lending beyond a generic 700 credit score threshold.
Watch this on-demand webinar where Experian experts, Shawn Rife, Product Management Director, and Alvin Yuan, Senior Product Manager, explore how diversified data can help financial institutions grow and protect their portfolios while expanding financial access to underserved communities.
IDC describes how new market entrants are offering employment and income verification alternatives to address some of the key challenges facing lenders today.
As a group, minority-owned businesses receive far fewer commercial loans and have significantly fewer trade accounts than the general small-business population. At the same time, minority-owned businesses have average business credit scores that should qualify them as viable prospective borrowers. This whitepaper highlights key findings from a recent analysis of minority-owned business data. They include a review of the study, the major insights revealed, and suggestions for how a change in common business practices can deliver “win-win” outcomes for minority businesses and the lenders that extend them credit.
The evolving landscape of online marketplace lending and the future of the industry.
In 2008, a short two years after the first online marketplace lenders opened for business, the Great Recession began to wreak havoc on worldwide financial markets. Small businesses struggled to survive, banks failed and access to capital was limited. More online lenders saw an opportunity and opend for business. These technology-driven newcomers hired an army of data scientists, coders and digital marketers. In the fall of 2015 the innovation, industry disruption and regulatory uncertainty that characterize this dynamic sector led Experian to produce a series of articles focusing on different aspects of online marketplace lending. This report contains those articles.
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