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The History of Credit Scores

The term ‘credit score’ is often thrown around when it comes to financial services and products, but what does it really mean?

There’s a lot to know about how credit scores impact the way the average person goes about their day-to-day life. Whether you’re signing up for your first credit card or looking to apply for a mortgage, your credit score plays a huge role in determining whether you’ll be able to achieve some of your financial goals. 

Something just as important – and a term as equally thrown around – is a credit report. Your credit report determines how much interest you’ll have to pay back on loans, credit cards, and mortgages and whether you’ll be approved for them in the first place. 

Credit scores and reports as we know them have only been around for a few decades but are part of a long history of merchants, lenders, and decision engines. Here, Provenir explores when credit scores were invented, how they’re calculated, and how consumer credit reporting works, so you can know more about your money. 

Read on for your no-nonsense guide to all things credit.

When were credit scores invented and how does credit scoring work?

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Provenir for Telco

Finding new, creditworthy subscribers while retaining your current ones can be especially difficult for telcos in a highly competitive landscape.

Activating those subscribers without increasing your risk is even harder. That’s why it’s so important to get the right decisioning technology. With Provenir’s AI-Powered Decisioning platform, telcos have the power to increase activations while minimizing risk across the customer lifecycle. Explore what you can do with a unified decisioning solution that offers more accurate risk assessment, real-time decisions, and flexible, data-driven processes.

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Automated Decisioning Technology for a Frictionless Customer Experience

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Buy Now, Pay Later:
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The Buy Now, Pay Later market continues to grow and diversify. New providers are still emerging, partnerships between fintechs and larger, traditional banking institutions are solidifying – and consumers are getting more and more demanding. Sixty percent of customers abandon applications for unsecured lending products during digital onboarding, due to slow or complex application processes and a lack of(real or perceived) security. Whether you’re a new entrant to the market or a seasoned BNPL provider, providing a frictionless customer experience is critical to maintaining your competitive advantage. But how can you stay ahead of the competition and still effectively manage your risk?

Key Highlights:

  • Why a unified platform for data, AI and decisioning can help you analyze and action your data (including decisioning performance data, credit risk, fraud and compliance) for flexibility and scalability throughout the entire customer lifecycle
  • How easily accessing a variety of data sources(including alternative data) via a single API, offers a more holistic view of your customers, and encourages financial inclusion
  • The importance of automated decisioning for real-time approvals and a frictionless customer experience
  • How to develop, deploy and adapt sophisticated risk models without heavy reliance on your vendors/partners – getting you to market faster than your competition


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Faster strategy deployment. Reduced losses. Improved customer relationships.

Take your collections management to the next level with Provenir’s AI-Powered Decisioning Platform. Your collections success relies on using the right treatment strategy at exactly the right time – and with Provenir at the center of your customer relationship management ecosystem, you’ll have the power to use all your customer data with advanced analytics tools, including AI/ML, to fully optimize your collection strategy.

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How to Power Rapid Approvals and Accelerate Your SME Lending Processes

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Forty-four percent of SMEs look to funding to meet operating expenses, with this number expected to grow considerably during times of economic uncertainty. Fifty-six percent of SMEs seek funds to expand business operations or pursue new market opportunities. But waiting months or even weeks for credit approval and funding can mean the difference between innovation and business closure.

Traditional financial services organizations may find lending to SMEs difficult, but fintechs are rising to the challenge. Simplified application processes, rapid approvals and access to funds quickly makes working with digital lenders an obviously attractive choice. 

Because if you aren’t making it easy for SMEs to get the credit they need, your competitors will.

Watch this panel discussion of industry experts and discover how to:

  • Power faster, simplified application processes
  • Make smarter, faster decisions and get to market faster
  • Future-proof your decision technology to keep up as market trends/demands evolve
  • Use advanced, predictive analytics like AI to keep risk in check


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Life in 3D: Using Alternative Data to Power Credit Risk Decisioning

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We see the world in 3D – and we should view credit risk the same way. As a lender, you’re often forced to determine credit risk using only a traditional credit score. But that leaves your perspective lacking.

Read our definitive guide and discover how using alternative data can enable you to:

Create a more agile approach to your credit decisioning process

Say yes to more customers, including those who are thin-filed or unbanked

Improve your decisioning accuracy and offer more cross-sell/upsell opportunities

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BNPL: Delivering Solutions that Match the Speed of Market Growth

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Like a runaway train, Buy Now, Pay Later continues to gather speed in North America. While more providers enter the increasingly attractive (and crowded) market and diversify their offerings, consumers get more and more demanding.

Sixty percent of customers abandon applications for unsecured lending products during digital onboarding, due to slow or complex application processes and a lack of (real or perceived) security. If you’re a BNPL provider, nailing the entire experience is critical.

But how can you get to market faster than the competition, ensure scalability in your product offerings, provide a superior customer experience AND still manage your risk effectively?

They key is in the data and the technology you choose. Hear Kathy Stares, EVP of North America at Provenir, discuss the critical factors to consider when selecting technology partners to grow (or start!) your BNPL business – and how to stay ahead of the competition.

You will learn: 

  • To easily access a variety of data sources (including alternative data) via a single API for a more holistic view of the creditworthiness of your customers
  • Why a unified platform for data, AI and decisioning can help you analyze and action your data (including decisioning performance data, credit risk, fraud and compliance) for flexibility and scalability throughout the entire customer lifecycle
  • How to automate decisioning for real-time approvals and a frictionless customer experience
  • To develop, deploy and adapt sophisticated risk models without heavy reliance on your vendors/partners – getting you to market faster than your competition


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Driving Growth in an Economic Slowdown

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Driving Growth
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Hear from Provenir and TransUnion Experts

The Canadian economic landscape has changed dramatically this year. Recent increases in inflation and interest rates have driven uncertainty and volatility into the market and fraudsters are growing more and more sophisticated – digital fraud attempts rose a whopping 218% in Canadian financial services from late 2021 to early 2022. On the flip side, unemployment is at its lowest rate in decades and immigration hit an all-time high in 2021, opening up more opportunities to extend credit.

Watch now aas leaders from TransUnion and Provenir share their outlook on the current state of the Canadian economy and discuss how lenders can use data and AI to become more agile in meeting customers’ needs and capitalize on growth opportunities, while efficiently mitigating risks.

Tune in to:

  • Discover strategies needed to quickly react to changing market dynamics
  • Identify opportunities for growth through financial inclusivity
  • Understand how data can be used for growth as well as risk management
  • Learn about new trends in fraud and how to mitigate business exposure

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  • Matt Fabian

    Director, Financial Services Research and Consulting, TransUnion Canada

  • Cheryl Woodburn

    Country Manager, Canada, Provenir


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Your Ticket to Decide – Tackle Risk and Drive Growth

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Your Ticket to Decide –
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In an era of instant-everything, speed is a distinct competitive advantage.

According to PwC, 80% of consumers rank speed as a key buying factor. Whether it’s how fast your customers are able to apply for credit, how quickly you can approve their application, or how soon they get their funds – speed is key. With the rapid pace of digitization and the increase of competition in all forms of financial services, the pressure of consumer demands has never been higher.

How do you balance speed and business growth while maintaining the health of your risk strategy? By ensuring that your decisioning technology can make the most accurate decisions, quickly. In this webinar and live demo, we’ll show you how unified access to AI-powered decisioning and the data that fuels it can help you make smarter decisions, faster, AND help mitigate your risk.

Tune in and hear from Provenir experts how a unified risk decisioning platform offers:

  • Full assessment of risk across identity, fraud and credit
  • Automated, real-time decisioning at onboarding and beyond
  • The ability to scale, diversify and launch new products without fear of compromising your risk strategy


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What’s Next for BNPL in North America and how to Prepare For the Evolution

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What’s Next for BNPL
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An e-commerce staple in certain regions, the Buy Now Pay Later wave is now having its moment in North America, with experts projecting the industry growing 10-15 times its current volume by 2025. As with most things in fintech, the landscape of BNPL – including regulations, providers, products and platforms – is changing, rapidly. Consumer expectations continue to grow, with 80% of consumers ranking speed as a key buying factor.

Join us for this panel discussion where we will discuss all things BNPL, including onboarding, the customer journey, how the North American landscape and associated regulations are changing – and how to ensure you are prepared for the evolution.

  • The way advanced technologies like AI/ML and automated decisioning can help you respond to market needs and shifts quickly, while managing risk effectively
  • How the use of alternative data can help you say yes to more customers and encourage greater financial inclusion for the underbanked
  • Why balancing customers experience and frictionless onboarding with fraud prevention and accurate decisioning is critical to ongoing growth
  • What the future holds for BNPL regulations and the ways we can future-proof technology to ensure compliance

Speakers:

  • Kathy Stares

    EVP Americas, Provenir

  • Rob Seidman

    Head of Product, BNPL/POS Lending, U.S. Bank

  • Josh Williams

    CEO, Seattle Bank

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Todd Anderson

Chief Content Officer, Fintech Nexus


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