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JANUARY 24, 2019

Also, what’s a simple and legitimate matter of credit risk ? Criminals have learned how to exploit situations in which fraud might — initially, but for a meaningful period of time — look like an issue of credit risk, which can make so much of fraud prevention reactive, not proactive. Here’s a test: What’s fraud?

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Given the roller coaster ride consumer finances have been on for the last 10 months, managing risk has become critical for financial institutions (FIs), both in terms of rising fraud counts and in terms of rising consumer delinquencies. Driving Actionable Intelligence In Real Time. And these models aren’t one-off events.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Top 2024 macro-credit risks include tight liquidity and funding conditions, uncertainty about China’s macroeconomic outlook and property sector, and geopolitical event risk, said Fitch Ratin gs recently. The post Top 2024 macro-credit risks appeared first on FutureCFO.

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Global Finance

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Africa : UBA United Bank for Africa (UBA) is celebrating its 75th anniversary. With a portfolio of over a million SME clients and a loan book of $90 million, the bank has been instrumental in ensuring that SMEs remain the engine of growth. The bank also ensures easy transaction processing through its UBA Afritrade and UBA Connect.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In today’s top news in digital-first banking, digital payments network Zelle crossed over the one-billion transaction mark, while China’s tests of a digital yuan have processed over four million transactions. Plus, Bloomberg clients will now have the capacity to use the company’s terminal to look at Credit Benchmark’s risk data.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

When it comes to the main credit risks, inflation and interest rates remain the most significant watch item for global credit, said Fitch Ratings recently. According to Fitch’s base-case forecasts, this will include a shallow recession in the US, limited growth in the eurozone and building risks to China’s recovery.

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OCTOBER 9, 2018

However, to get down to his concerns, the analyst said — per news reports such as CNBC — that the recently debuted “Square Installments” (which, as the name implies, offers payment plans) may expose the company in a way that makes it vulnerable to credit markets.

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JULY 16, 2020

Blockchain initiative Teller has notched $1 million in a Framework Ventures-led seed capital to create a decentralized finance (DeFi) credit risk tool, according to an announcement. The bank will also start using the cryptocurrency for Hong Kong Monetary Authority transactions in September.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2020

It may be an open road for open banking as, three years after the rollout of the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2), bank-FinTech collaborations and new initiatives unlocking bank account data continue to flourish. ThinCats Links Up With Open Banking FinTech Salt Edge. But it may not always be smooth sailing ahead.

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MAY 1, 2020

Banks are reserving tens of billions of dollars against potential credit card and loan defaults. They’re eyeing risk exposure while at the same time trying to help consumers get back on their feet. The prospect of extending credit, of course, brings key issues into focus, primarily those of risk and fraud.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It’s here now and being used to make good banks better — whether to eliminate discrimination in lending decisions, add stability to existing screening systems or drive loan growth and profits. Ensuring Inclusive Banking. He said everyone in banking — from small credit unions to giant U.S. 15M In New Funding .

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APRIL 2, 2020

Every interaction tells banks what customers actually want, meaning FIs just need the right tools to interpret this data. billion by 2025, with banks of all sizes leveraging such capabilities. Data analytics can give banks valuable insights into their customers’ financial lives and help them offer tailored financial products.

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DECEMBER 19, 2016

16) said Lendingkart will offer its credit risk assessment technology to banks and other alt-lenders starting in 2017. According to Lendingkart Cofounder Harshvardhan Lunia, the company will look to expand its reach in the SME lending market over the next six months by having other banks use its credit risk analytics software.

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Barry Ritholtz

MARCH 4, 2025

The transcript from this weeks, MiB: Melissa Smith, co-Head of Commercial Banking at JPMorgan , is below. Melissa Smith is co-head of commercial banking for JP Morgan. Previously she was co-head of the bank’s Innovation Economy Group. And just to define that middle market sort of means in, in the commercial banking, right?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

After a third party runs a credit check and assumes the credit risk of non-payment, a purchaser can delay payment for a fixed period or pay in whole or installments. Using B2B BNPL, MSMEs avoid tapping their credit lines to pay invoices and avoid trade credit negotiations. So they are into that.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The launch comes after a successful pilot program, Visa noted, with the focus of the chosen FinTechs ranging from small business credit risk and buy now, pay later to merchant search and transaction compliance. This means that financial institutions and businesses of all sizes are looking for ways to rapidly develop their offerings.”.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In other news, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) is placing new digital currency restrictions on banks, Crytovest reported. In essence, the outlet reported that “banks must reserve significantly more capital to cover crypto losses compared to other asset classes.”

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APRIL 27, 2023

Speaking at the ‘Global Conference on Financial Resilience’, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das shared the results of latest macro stress tests for credit risk conducted by the central bank which indicates that banks in India are well placed to comply with the minimum capital requirements even under severe stress situations.

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MARCH 30, 2020

Bank regulators have rolled back the Jan. 1 accounting standard known as “current expected credit loss” (CECL) in an effort to bolster loans in the wake of the coronavirus, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday (March 27). National bank regulators — The Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.

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APRIL 16, 2019

But it occurred to them that their solution was useful outside of HR — and that many of the things that made someone a good hire of over time could also make them a good credit risk over time, if the artificial intelligence (AI) model they were using to screen with were modified to that task.

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DECEMBER 10, 2020

And in banking, financial institutions can incorporate artificial intelligence into their consumer credit strategies at a time when a retroactive approach to credit risk management has become less feasible amid COVID-19. 80%: Share of banking interactions done online in 2020. All this, Today in Data.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

French startup Tinubu Square has secured funding for its solution that provides trade credit risk management, according to news reports on Monday (Oct.2). Tinubu Square’s customers are credit and surety insurers, trade finance banks and export credit agencies, according to reports. “The

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MARCH 6, 2020

What some banks purport to be AI is often lumped together with other less sophisticated computational systems or, in some cases, not AI at all but the result of intensive human labor. bank executives at institutions ranging from $1 billion in assets to more than $100 billion. Yet, these claims do not always rest on a solid foundation.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

With the threat of third-party cyber risks rising, the financial services (FinServ) industry is especially prone to hacks that can ripple through supply chains. This is particularly true as open banking initiatives encourage bank collaboration with third-party FinTech firms and facilitate the movement of data between platforms.

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JUNE 17, 2020

In financial fraud, the breaches come when bank standards are lax. Australian bank Westpac Banking Corp. And that guiding principle is what leads fraudsters and bad actors to probe systemic vulnerabilities in banks’ compliance processes. may stand as Exhibit A here. There was no evidence of intentional wrongdoing.”.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Following years of brisk expansion, China’s smaller financial institutions are seeing hard times as customers turn to larger banks and the local economy slows, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported on Sunday (Nov. S&P Global analysts figure that troubled lenders make up about 4 percent of China’s total banking capital.

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JUNE 28, 2020

The various policy measures will mitigate credit-negative pressure on companies, banks and the broader economy, but weakness in trade, commodity prices and general sentiment will weigh on growth for all five economies,” Deborah Tan, a Moody’s Assistant Vice President pointed out. “The

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JULY 8, 2020

AI Also Helps Manage Credit Risk. For instance, Mastercard has been using AI to help its banking partners with credit risk management, aiming to provide the right amount of credit to customers — and the smartest collections efforts — in today’s uncertain economic climate.

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MAY 24, 2019

Baoshang Bank, based in Inner Mongolia, will be taken over by China’s banking and insurance regulator over critical credit risks, according to a report by Reuters. Takeovers of banks are rare in China, and this is the first one in almost 20 years. The bank’s non-performing loan ratio, as of December 2016, was 1.68

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

NEW REPORT: The Banks’ How To Guide To Using AI To Manage Credit Risk. Banks have long turned to a familiar set of tools for managing credit risk — late fees and other penalties. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help, but many banks lack the resources needed to properly implement it.

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DECEMBER 14, 2020

“[Circumstances] have underscored the singular importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in managing credit risk as well as supporting other bank operations. AI can make it easier for financial institutions (FIs) to predict how likely their customers are to make timely payments and improve overall risk assessment capabilities.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

European Central Bank (ECB) officials are concerned that Euro-area banks will get hit hard in 2021 by fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic as weakened businesses slide into bankruptcy. Euro-area banks are likely to face significant losses and further pressure on their already weak profitability prospects.”.

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Global Finance

JULY 29, 2024

Generative AI could help the Gulf’s traditional banks wrest the competitive advantage back from challenger and neobanks. While artificial intelligence was already promising profound changes in the traditional banking business model, the latest innovation in the technology—generative AI—portends a multisensory revolution in banking services.

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JUNE 17, 2019

regulators are saying cyberattacks pose the greatest risk to U.S. banks in upcoming years, but the regulation and testing processes are convoluted and complicated for institutions in both spaces to assess, according to a report by the Financial Times. Right now, different regulators look at different pieces of the same bank.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

The issues that have kept millennials out of the mortgage market tend to fall into three categories: lack of sufficient credit, lack of sufficient funds for a down payment or lack of a sufficiently long employment record to get lenders comfortable with them as a credit risk. Capturing That Millennial Customer.

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JUNE 1, 2020

To encourage banks to loan as much as $140.18 billion to small businesses during COVID-19, the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) is to begin purchasing loans local lenders provided to small businesses. The economy of China was reduced by 6.8 percent in Q1 compared to the year prior.

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JULY 23, 2020

DBS Bank has partnered with business cloud software company Infor to integrate digital trade financing capabilities into the Infor Nexus global network of more than 68,000 businesses, the technology firm said recently. . The post DBS Bank, Infor team to offer digital trade financing appeared first on FutureCFO.

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