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Futureproofing Buy Now, Pay Later Offerings with AI, Machine Learning and Low-Code/No-Code Approaches

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Futureproofing Buy Now, Pay Later Offerings
with AI, Machine Learning and Low-Code/No-Code Approaches

The Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) space is expanding and evolving rapidly. Do you have the right technology to adapt to any and all changes in this emerging industry?

The technology decisions you make now will have a direct and tangible impact on the future adaptability, growth and longevity of your BNPL products. So, how do you know which technology can help you prepare for the future of BNPL?

In this Financial IT article, our CTO Veejay Jadhaw shares key technology considerations that will give you the agility and flexibility needed to innovate and iterate to stay ahead of growing competition and changing regulations.

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Provenir Appoints New Executive Vice President and General Manager to Lead Latin America Expansion

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Provenir Appoints New Executive Vice President and General Manager to Lead Latin America Expansion

The appointment reinforces Provenir’s commitment to support financial institutions in simplifying their risk decisioning and driving innovative products to market faster

PARSIPPANY, NJ–Sept. 1, 2021 – Provenir, a global leader in data analytics software and risk decisioning, has appointed José Luis Vargas-Favero as its new executive vice president and general manager for Latin America. In his new role, Vargas-Favero will be responsible for leading Provenir’s ambitious expansion plans to triple its footprint in the region by the end of 2021.

Vargas-Favero brings more than 25 years of financial services experience in management, sales, business development, consulting, data analytics, decision management technology, digital transformation and risk management to Provenir. Prior to joining Provenir, he held several global senior leadership roles at FICO.

“José’s deep industry knowledge and global experience will be invaluable as we seek to become the leading trusted risk decisioning partner across Latin America,” said Larry Smith, founder and CEO of Provenir. “We see tremendous opportunity to help financial institutions in the region provide a superior and more inclusive customer experience by providing them with access to alternative types of data to assess risk and make smarter decisions.”

Latin America is producing a large and rapidly growing number of innovative and disruptive fintechs, which are raising record amounts of investment as they seize the opportunity to provide a superior and more responsive customer experience to a region with a population of more than 650 million and a combined economy of over 5 trillion USD. According to estimates, more than 70% of adults in the region have a smartphone yet only 30% have a banking relationship. Under Vargas-Favero’s leadership, Provenir will enhance its ability to support financial and non-financial institutions in providing better credit options to this unbanked population through alternative data powered technology.

“I am honored to join a company that shares my passion for using data, analytics and decisioning technology to improve the financial services landscape for all, and to contribute to eliminating financial exclusion for the vast population of underserved and unbanked individuals in the region,” said Vargas-Favero. “Provenir has distinguished itself as a global leader in risk decisioning processes with its amazing cloud-native technology, and I am excited to join at this pivotal time to help accelerate the company’s existing growth trajectory.”

The company is actively recruiting talent to expand the team in the region and is establishing alliances with local data partners to continue developing the Provenir Marketplace and better service the region.

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Don’t Keep Customers Waiting Make Risk Decisions in Seconds

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Don’t Keep Customers Waiting
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Provenir for Retail Financing

Today, consumers are used to simple and fast digital interactions with instant banking and one-click shopping from their mobile phones. This expectation for speedy online service now extends to more complex interactions like loans. Whether you are a telecommunications company offering loans for mobile phones or a rent-to-own store which provides loans for furnishings, your clients demand a quick risk decision.

Provenir can help you deliver a timely, hassle-free credit or loan experience. Using the Provenir Risk Decisioning Platform, it’s easy to automate your credit and lending processes, making them as efficient as possible while minimizing risk and staying compliant. You can substantially cut the time and cost for creating and maintaining complex credit and risk decisioning solutions to:

  • Make decisions in seconds/milliseconds. Take advantage of instant, straight-through processing for credit and lending requests and automated next-best-action recommendations for requests requiring further underwriting analysis.
  • Integrate to structured and unstructured data sources in hours. Pre-built adapters automatically consolidate information from virtually any enterprise and third-party data source.
  • Operationalize risk models in minutes. Provenir is model-agnostic so that you can use any model or scorecard developed in industry-standard tools such SAS, R, Excel and Python within your decisioning processes.
  • Be completely independent from your IT organization or Provenir. Simple to use visual tools let you rapidly create, test and deploy automated risk analysis and decisioning processes for immediate response to changing regulations, market conditions, customer profiles, business opportunities and competitive challenges.
  • Accelerate deployment with the Provenir Cloud. A highly secure cloud computing environment offers flexible options for domain setup, managed services, deployments and scalability.

Rent-A-Center Implements Provenir Cloud to Better Serve Growing Customer Base

“The Provenir platform’s scalability and rich functionality provide significant value to Rent-A-Center’s growth plans and transformation,” said Mark Denman, EVP of Acceptance Now at Rent-a-Center. “By implementing Provenir Cloud to process customer lease applications, we will increase speed, improve delivery and provide our customers better, faster access to our products and services.”

Rent-A-Center provides furniture, electronics, computers and household appliances under rent-to-own agreements. It is publicly listed with more than 3,500 stores in the US, Canada, Mexico and Puerto Rico and revenues totaling $3.28 billion in 2015.

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Lewis Group Makes Risk Decisions in Seconds Using the Provenir Platform

The Provenir Risk Decisioning Platform has significantly cut the time required to implement and change decisioning policies. “Provenir’s built-in repository and change management system makes entertaining such requests almost a pleasure,” says Willie Van Zyl, Senior Solutions Analyst at Lewis. For example, it took less than half a day to integrate a new SAS dataset and retrieve an indicator used to print a special promotional message on a customer’s statement. Previously, such a change would have taken more than a week and costs would have outweighed the benefit.

In stores, the Provenir platform enables the majority of application credit decisions to be made in just a few seconds once the required information is captured. Borderline applications are automatically referred to underwriters for further analysis. The credit maintenance solution aggregates data and automatically evaluates each customer’s credit performance, allowing Lewis to quickly identify at-risk customers as well as additional opportunities to extend credit.

Lewis is a leading African retailer selling household furniture and electrical appliances through the brands of Lewis, Best Home and Electric and Beares. Lewis has 716 stores across all metropolitan areas with a strong presence in rural South Africa.

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In Pursuit of a Loan: The Difficulties Faced by Small Businesses

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In Pursuit of a Loan: The Difficulties Faced by Small Businesses

The importance of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to the UK economy can’t be overstated. Accounting as they do for 99.9 per cent of private sector companies, they have a combined annual turnover of £1.6 trillion and provide 60 per cent of private sector jobs in the UK.

To build and grow their businesses SMEs need access to affordable capital financing. Many apply to banks for a business loan. However those loans have been harder to come by since the financial crisis and larger companies, being lower risk, have generally been more successful than their smaller counterparts.

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Provenir Named to Inc. Magazine’s Annual List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies

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Provenir Named to Inc. Magazine’s Annual List of America’s Fastest Growing Private Companies

The Inc. 5000 list ranks the most successful private companies demonstrating standout growth

Parsippany, NJ, Aug. 17, 2021– Provenir,  a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, today announced it has been named to the Inc. 5000 list, Inc. Magazine’s annual ranking of the fastest-growing private U.S. companies based on company revenues over the past three years. Provenir is one of only 572 software companies included in this year’s list.

In 2020 alone, revenue for Provenir’s software-as-a-serve (SaaS) solutions increased 25 percent year-over-year, driven by a 22 percent increase in its customer base of disruptive financial services companies, and its increasing presence in the Buy Now Pay Later (BNBL) and challenger bank markets. The company also expanded into new geographic markets including Latin America, UAE, and Asia, and now serves clients in more than 40 countries worldwide.

For those companies included in the Inc. 5000 this year, the average median three-year growth rate soared to 543 percent, and median revenue reached $11.1 million. Collectively, those companies added more than 610,000 jobs to the economy over the past three years.

“Provenir is honored to be included in this prestigious list of companies that are driving innovation and change to be leaders in their respective markets,” said Larry Smith, founder and CEO, Provenir. “We are proud of our growth over the past three years in both new customers and expansion into new markets to meet the burgeoning need for real-time risk decisioning solutions.”

“The 2021 Inc. 5000 list feels like one of the most important rosters of companies ever compiled,” said Inc. Editor-in-Chief Scott Omelianuk. “Building one of the fastest-growing companies in America in any year is a remarkable achievement. Building one in the crisis we’ve lived through is just plain amazing. This kind of accomplishment comes with hard work, smart pivots, great leadership, and the help of a whole lot of people.”

Provenir’s technology enables fintechs, financial institutions, and payment providers to easily design, build, and deploy solutions to solve complex business challenges such as digital onboarding, retail financing, Buy Now Pay later (BNPL) approvals, SME lending, insurance, credit card management, eCommerce, eWallet, digital banking, alternative data and fraud. Its flagship product, the Provenir AI-Powered Risk Decisioning Platform, is a cloud-native data, decisioning and analytics platform, providing one unified digital experience powering four cloud products — decisioning, data, insights, and solutions — enabling users to create the platform-as-a-service cloud that best fits their needs.

Complete results of the Inc. 5000, including company profiles and an interactive database that can be sorted by industry, region, and other criteria, can be found at www.inc.com/inc5000.

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Back to the Future: 8 Features of Fast and Future-Proof BNPL Technology

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Back to the Future: 8 Features of Fast and Future-Proof BNPL Technology

Discover the BNPL technology features that will help you drive greater financial inclusion

Over the past year, Buy Now, Pay Later products have gone from interesting new option to a household staple. The growing consumer comfort levels with BNPL features and products has opened up an opportunity for lenders to create offerings that can drive financial inclusion across the APAC region and help millions of people move from credit invisible to credit worthy. 

To attract and support consumers on this journey, you don’t just need technology that gets you to market quickly, you need technology that empowers you to make smarter credit risk decisions with alternative data.

In our latest eBook, we explore the 8 decisioning and analytics technology features that will prepare you to:

  • Power world-class onboarding experiences
  • Access and use the alternative data you need to make smarter credit decisions
  • Get deeper insights into your risk decisioning performance

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Provenir Named Finalist for 2021 SaaS Awards for Best SaaS Product for Financial Services

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Provenir Named Finalist for 2021 SaaS Awards for Best SaaS Product for Financial Services

The Provenir AI-Powered Risk Decisioning Platform is an industry leading credit decisioning SaaS offering that automates the entire credit lifecycle for financial institutions

Parsippany, NJ, July 27, 2021– Provenira global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, today announced that it has been named a finalist for the the 2021 SaaS Awards Program in the “Best SaaS Product for Financial Services” category.

Final SaaS Awards winners will be announced on Aug. 31.

Provenir’s technology enables fintechs, financial institutions, and payment providers to easily design, build, and deploy solutions to solve complex business challenges such as digital onboarding, retail financing, Buy Now Pay later (BNPL) approvals, SME lending, insurance, credit card management, eCommerce, eWallet, digital banking, alternative data and fraud. 

The Provenir AI-Powered Risk Decisioning Platform, a cloud-native data, decisioning and analytics solution, provides one unified digital experience powering four cloud products — decisioning, data, insights, and solutions — enabling users to create the platform-as-a-service cloud that best fits their needs. It’s a no code, cloud-agnostic data science platform that supports a wide range of AI and machine learning capabilities that business users can use to develop automated decisioning workflows across the entire customer lifecycle with real time business insights.

“It is an honor to be a finalist for the SaaS Awards, which recognizes our team’s innovation in developing SaaS technologies,” said Larry Smith, founder and CEO, Provenir. “Our SaaS solutions help customers realize shorter implementations and lower upfront expense resulting in a faster ROI and a lower ongoing cost of ownership. We see continued rapid transition to the cloud combined with the need for a rich customer experience driving increased adoption of our capabilities.”

“The shortlisted candidates announced today have made it through that first round and represent truly innovative thinkers in the SaaS industry, whether they’re freshly-funded disruptors or established names,” said James Williams, head of operations, SaaS Awards. “Just as SaaS technologies have been vital in pivoting organizational functions to respond to global crises, they will be essential as we look forward to returning to normal levels of productivity.”

About Provenir

Provenir helps fintechs, financial institutions, and payment providers make smarter decisions faster by simplifying the risk decisioning process. Its no-code, cloud-native SaaS products make it easy to rapidly create sophisticated decisioning workflows. With a global data marketplace for seamless integration, powerful AI and machine learning models, and real-time insights, Provenir has supercharged decisioning speed. Provenir works with disruptive financial services organizations in more than 33 countries and processes more than 2 billion transactions annually.

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Using Salesforce for Credit/Loan Origination and Risk Decisioning

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Using Salesforce for
Credit/Loan Origination and Risk Decisioning

“Using Provenir’s configurable integration adaptors, GM Financial defined integrations with credit bureaus and a multitude of internal and external systems. This has helped the company not only reduce processing time, but has also increased transparency into the process.”

Senior Vice President Dealer Services at GM Financial

Just like GM Financial, Provenir clients are using the Provenir Salesforce adapter to enhance and optimize processes such as

But salesforce integration is not easy. In this demonstration you will see how Provenir can help you:

  • Automate complex analytics and decisioning processes from your Salesforce environment
  • Pair sophisticated intelligence and risk analytics with Salesforce for predictive cross-sell and upsell campaigns
  • Integrate various structured and unstructured data sources with your Salesforce environment to create a powerful risk strategy ecosystem
  • Keep a single set of integrated data across systems to avoid duplication or compliance concerns and to capitalize on real-time risk processes

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Eight Key Technology Requirements to Build a Buy Now, Pay Later Offering Built for Speed, Agility and Sustainability

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Eight Key Technology Requirements
to Build a Buy Now, Pay Later Offering Built for Speed, Agility and Sustainability

The rise in consumers using Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) solutions has led to the rapid expansion in providers offering BNPL services for a variety of markets, including retail, rent, travel, utilities and healthcare. To thrive in this increasingly competitive and growing market, BNPL providers must put in place the right technology framework for today while looking ahead to the future. The technology decisions BNPL providers make now will have a direct and tangible impact on the future adaptability, growth and longevity of their BNPL offerings.

In this Fintech Times article, our SVP of Global Marketing, Kim Minor, shares eight key technology requirements BNPL providers should consider.

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3 Incomplete Assumptions that Credit Unions Make About Millennials

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3 Incomplete Assumptions
that Credit Unions Make About Millennials

“Millennials” say they’d rather go to the dentist than listen to what their banks are saying. Finetchs like Venmo, Mint, Yapstone, and Addepar are quickly moving in to fill that demographic’s demand for convenient financial services. Where does that leave the Credit Union?

Let me start this article by admitting, if there is something to presume, analyze or write about the millennial generation it has been done. If no other generalizations are true, we can certainly dub those born between 1977-1995 (depending on your source) as the most scrutinized generation in history. However, articles are still being written, and it’s not because we need more content. If you’re like me, you’d rather not hear the term “millennials” ever again – yet here it is. Articles like this exist because it’s an easy way to say, “How to stay relevant to your upcoming customer base.”

Let me also clarify that this is not a new discussion. Businesses are forever working to stay relevant as times change. In 1966 Time Magazine named “the generation twenty-five and under” its Person of the Year. Imagine the fun we would have had with Baby Boomers had Twitter been around in the 60’s.

For Credit Unions, however, this discussion remains particularly critical. Research shows that the average age of credit union members is in the mid to late forties. Couple that with the overall distaste that millennials have toward banking in general (71% would rather go to the dentist than listen to what their banks are saying), and it becomes obvious that there’s a very real, very challenging task ahead.

That’s why we gathered this list of three assumptions that Credit Unions make with regards to Millennials that might be hampering the effort from the get-go.

1. Sincerity and Good Customer Service Always Win

Honesty, fairness, customer service. These are all values that the traditional credit union prides, even attempts to differentiate itself, on. While customer service can be a great differentiator, it’s not exclusive to the Credit Union. All it takes is an honest bank with great customer service and better pricing to open shop on the corner, and it’s game over.

The Opportunity: You’re on the right track. If that customer service can be extended to empathy, then to personalization, you’re a hit with younger members who have grown up getting personalized recommendations everywhere – from the friends they should follow on Facebook to the products they’d like on Amazon. (This is where technology can be your best friend – find a solution that gives you strong customer profiling and segmentation so you can make personalized offers to your members.)

2. Millennials Aren’t Ready for Our Services

We’ve spent so much time talking about the idea that millennials are the future, that we didn’t even notice when they started having kids, buying houses, and saving for retirement. While millennials certainly face unique economic challenges (higher student loan debt, coming into the workplace during or after the Great Recession, massive cynicism around Social Security and retirement),  According to research from Goldman Sachs, about half of the millennial generation is already in its peak home buying years. Another survey showed that 70% of millennials are saving for retirement. So, while millennials on average are low on the net-worth scale because they’re “just starting out”, they are in prime position to decide where they’re going to grow their wealth.

The Opportunity: Let’s go back to the personalization idea for a second. Comparatively speaking, those under the age of 35 have accumulated less wealth than their older counterparts (again, not a new thing). However, millennials have unprecedented access to information and an estimated 61% use that access to actively seek advice about investing and personal finance. Be the advisor.

3. We Have to be Mobile-friendly

You’re reading this article on the internet, so I’m going to assume that I don’t have to tell you that the internet exists, or why it’s kind of a big deal. And, if averages hold true, more than half of you are reading it on a mobile device. So, to say you have to be “mobile-friendly” is a drastic understatement. Where many Credit Unions miss is the extent to which the member experience should be “mobile-friendly” and what that actually means.

The Opportunity: The need for mobile access is representative of two necessities: speed and convenience. Your new millennial members want to apply for mortgages on their iPhones, not because they like reading legal fine print on a small screen but because they want things immediately. So, when you’re whiteboarding your new mobile loan origination strategy take everything back to “quick” and “convenient”. If it’s not quick and convenient, it’s a waste of good app space. In the same way, blend that focus into your in-person or even “desktop” digital experiences for a consistent experience.

The amount of information that’s proliferated around millennials has propelled the generation to an almost mythical status. Conflicting statistics and reports prompted one writer to throw his hands up and say “It is hard not to come to the conclusion that no one really has a finger on the pulse of millennials.”

In reality, millennials are simply early adopters of many technologies and expectations that you’ll see widespread in the future (remember when Facebook was for 25 year-olds?), so it will pay to get this one right. If all else fails, try asking a millennial what they think. I’ve read that they love to talk about themselves.

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