Loan Underwriting news and trends

How Cash Flow Insights Are Building Tomorrow’s Credit Products
Loans // December 12, 2023

The lending landscape is undergoing a system-level shift that promises to benefit both borrowers and lenders. FinTech innovations, and an evolving mindset within the industry, are combining to usher in a new era of underwriting methods that draw from alternative data sources and advanced analytics...

SMBs Lead An Effort For Faster, Safer Loan Underwriting
B2B Payments // April 26, 2021

The open banking model zeroes in on the opportunities that third-party FinTechs might have by unlocking banking data of their clients. But as the concept proliferates throughout the financial services world, providers are examining new possibilities of consensual data sharing in other ways. In what...

Rethinking The SME Loan Underwriting Model In Southeast Asia
B2B Payments // March 10, 2020

The small business credit gap is a global issue, a problem that banks and FinTechs continue to hack away at, yet one that remains stubbornly persistent. In markets like Southeast Asia, high rates of credit-invisible, underbanked small businesses make filling the small business credit gap...

Open Banking Expands Its Horizons For Small Business Finserv
B2B Payments // October 21, 2019

The evolution of financial services has opened the door for open banking to take place. While in the U.K., Europe and elsewhere, regulations mandate that financial institutions open up customer data to third-party platforms, in the U.S., market forces have created a similar, open banking-friendly...

Interviews & Exclusives
How Cash Flow Insights Are Building Tomorrow’s Credit Products

December 12, 2023
The lending landscape is undergoing a system-level shift that promises to benefit both borrowers and lenders. FinTech innovations, and an evolving mindset within the industry, are combining to usher in a new era of underwriting methods that draw from alternative data sources and advanced analytics to paint a comprehensive picture of an individual’s financial health. […]

Rethinking The SME Loan Underwriting Model In Southeast Asia

March 10, 2020
The small business credit gap is a global issue, a problem that banks and FinTechs continue to hack away at, yet one that remains stubbornly persistent. In markets like Southeast...

Quick Reads
Nova Credit to Supply Consumer-Permissioned Cash Flow Data to SoFi

October 15, 2024
Digital financial services provider SoFi will leverage credit infrastructure and analytics firm Nova Credit’s consumer-permissioned data and analytics solution, Cash Atlas, to bolster its loan underwriting. With Cash Atlas, SoFi will be able to use cash flow data to gain a real-time and granular view of a consumer’s financial health and generate a more complete […]