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Fintech Trends to Drive 2022: Growth of Buy Now Pay Later and Increased Investments in Technology Enabling Financial Inclusion

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Fintech Trends to Drive 2022:
Growth of Buy Now Pay Later and Increased Investments in Technology Enabling Financial Inclusion

Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) and financial inclusion captured headlines and investments in 2021 and will continue to grow in 2022 as traditional banks scurry to join the crowded BNPL space and organizations strive to modify processes to meet the needs of a previously unserved population.

In an article in Financial IT, Kathy Stares, Executive Vice President, North America, for Provenir, provides insight on the critical role alternative data plays in both BNPL and financial inclusion, and why data, AI and real-time decisioning will be key areas of investment in 2022.

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Provenir Achieves Record Growth in New Customers and Revenue in 2021

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Provenir Achieves Record Growth
in New Customers and Revenue in 2021

AI-powered risk decisioning provider realizes a 190+ percent increase in new customers and a 55 percent SaaS revenue increase, amid continued global expansion

Parsippany, NJ — Feb. 2, 2022 — Provenir, a global leader in AI-powered risk decisioning software, today announced record growth in 2021, achieving a 194 percent increase in new customers and a 55 percent increase in Software-as-a-Service revenue year over year.

Provenir also continued its global expansion in response to increased demand for its products and services. In 2021, the company moved into new markets, including Germany, Austria, Switzerland (DACH), Turkey, the Middle East, the Balkans, and Africa, and expanded its presence in Latin America and Asia, bringing the total number of countries served to nearly 50.

As a result of this growth, the company increased its global workforce by 49 percent last year.

This growth sets the stage for Provenir to gain additional traction in key global regions and in the growing Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and challenger bank sectors, which need technology that provides access to alternative data for smarter decisioning and faster client onboarding.

“We are extremely proud of our record-breaking performance in 2021, and we see no signs of this momentum slowing down in 2022,” said Larry Smith, Founder and CEO of Provenir. “We are witnessing significant expansion in the types of businesses seeking our real-time decisioning solution across all geographies. Our unified solution brings together the three essential components of risk decisioning – data, AI and decisioning – into one single decisioning platform to help organizations provide the real-time decisioning customers demand today.”

Additional key company milestones achieved in 2021 include:

  • Introduced product innovations such as Cloud 2.0 and Provenir AI, which continue to simplify data access, make AI accessible and automate decisioning.  
  • Invested 25 percent of revenue in research and development to continue developing industry-defining solutions, including extending AI capabilities.
  • Welcomed more than 60 new partners to the Provenir Marketplace, a comprehensive fintech data and intelligence ecosystem providing access to more than 530 country/data/partner combinations through a single Application Programming Interface (API).
  • Expanded the use of Provenir for financial inclusion with customers in all regions.
  • Among other accolades received, Provenir was recognized as the “Best Credit Risk Solution” in the Credit & Collections Technology Awards, qualified as a finalist in Credit Strategy’s Credit Awards in the “Best Technology Provider” category and was named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America.

Provenir customers include leaders and challengers in the fintech and financial service sectors such as Zilch, AskIf, Kueski, Koko, Reliant Funding and Rent-A-Center that are gaining a decisive advantage

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Data on Demand: The Power of Real-Time Data for Risk Decisioning

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Data on Demand: The Power of Real-Time Data for Risk Decisioning

How real-time data enhances risk decisioning and wins new customers.

In a digital first world everything is available on demand. Consumers expect instant gratification, not just for small things like movies or music, but for everything, including financial services. If you’re not approving a loan application in real-time, there’s a competitor who will.

In our latest ebook, we explore what the future of data for risk decisioning looks like. And, how real-time, on-demand data will:

  • Enhance decisioning accuracy
  • Power world-class consumer experiences
  • Support innovation across your business strategy

Download the ebook today to discover how curating a single source for historical and real-time data simplifies data access, enhances data science and machine learning strategies, and democratizes data use across your organization.

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Shaking Off the Tech Debt

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Shaking Off the Tech Debt

What is Tech Debt?

Tech debt is the idea that when a business uses the easiest tech solution instead of the best tech solution, they’re creating a technology debt that’ll need to be repaid in the future. This means that companies who have accumulated tech debt are often weighed down by technology that slows down their agility and impacts their growth potential.

Tech Debt in the Financial Services Industry

Let’s look at the story of a financial services company that started out three years ago. Like many startups, it needed to launch quickly, so it used a combination of simple technology developed in-house and some manual steps to get the job done. Once the product was live, the business experienced a period of rapid growth which placed a heavy burden on the technology underpinning the product. The company quickly realized that it couldn’t grow any more with its existing set-up.

This isn’t the only company that finds itself in this situation; in fact, tech debt is increasingly common in growing fintechs as well as in the large banks who are famously beset by the challenges of legacy IT. Startups aren’t expected to have this problem because they’re new and began in the technology era; they’re seen as nimble and able to deliver value quickly. However, in reality, business decisions, and IT decisions that go with them, set companies on a course, and if that course needs to change, the business can only pivot as quickly as their technology can be turned.

The Growing Interest on Your Technology Troubles: Paying the Bank of Tech Debt

Just like any other type of debt, there’s always a cost to borrow. While the cost to future technology development is obvious, it’s the growing interest on your business that is often the bigger problem. Financial services businesses operating any kind of digital service rely on technology for agility, flexibility, and scalability. When your technology is broken or in debt, all parts of your business suffer.

Breaking Down Walls – How to Tackle Tech Debt

To address the limitations of traditional conference venues, new venues are built with partition walls that can be added or taken away depending on the type of event and number of people. This makes them more flexible, scalable, and profitable.

It’s not so very different to the tech debt issue. In the past, companies, including those in credit and lending, payments and eCommerce, opted for hard-coded systems to perform certain functions. These systems will scale up to a point, and beyond that, everything has to be done manually. Making changes to the systems takes weeks or months.

Companies setting up now can’t opt for this approach anymore and those already struggling with a tech debt can’t afford to not plug their IT gap or they will struggle to compete. Instead, these companies need to invest now (rather than invest more later) in ‘partition-wall-like’ technology that will grow with them and adapt.

In a digital world where the cost of tech debt is more than just a tech problem, businesses need to look for their ‘partition’ technology. Only with scalable and flexible solutions will financial services businesses tackle tech debt and be prepared for the future.

Many companies, including those in financial services, are grappling with tech debt. To stay competitive, companies need to invest in scalable and flexible technology solutions that can adapt as their business needs change. By doing so, they will be better prepared to tackle the challenges of the future.


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Auto Financing – Drive a Better Consumer Experience

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Auto Financing – Drive a Better Consumer Experience

Did you know that all it takes is 90 minutes in a dealership for customer satisfaction to decline? Whether your customers are purchasing cars, trucks, motorcycles, RVs or even boats, the faster and smoother you can make the experience, the better. Get in the fast lane and discover how to accelerate the auto lending experience with automated risk decisioning tools.

Make your auto financing process more like Netflix, and less like Blockbuster. Download our ‘Netflixing Auto Financing’ eBook to learn more.

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Operationalize your Financial Risk Models

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Operationalize your Financial Risk Models

Quickly and easily import multiple types of risk models

The Provenir decisioning Platform and risk analytics is unique in its ability to quickly and easily import multiple types of risk models so that they can be operationalized in automated decisioning processes.

Because the integration is “model agnostic”, simple and complex models and scorecards developed in third-party tools such as SAS, R and Excel or exported using PMML or MathML can be imported, validated and mapped via easy-to-use wizards.

With Provenir, there is no need for programming, enabling models to be imported and operationalized in minutes. This exclusive capability extends the value of your investment in industry-standard modeling tools while ensuring that automated risk decisioning processes developed in Provenir are always using the most accurate and up-to-date risk models.

Here’s a quick summary that shows just how easy it is to operationalize an R model.

Simply click Add to select a model from your system files and import it into Provenir. Provenir automatically validates the model’s code and extracts the fields for mapping.

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Open the model to visually configure the input and output mapping by dragging lines between the model’s and Provenir’s data fields. This creates Execution Profiles.

Input mapping specifies the data from Provenir that will be used by the model to execute the analysis.
Output mapping specifies the data to be returned to Provenir once the model has executed.
Provenir also provides options for managing the Execution Profile including how a returned value should be handled as well as using more than one Execution Profile with a model.

Provenir dynamically maps between the R model and its decisioning process. You can also map constant or fixed values between the model and Provenir.

Finally, check in your new model object and you are ready to test it. You can test it directly from the model object itself or place it in a business logic process and test it. Provenir provides visual feedback to show you exactly what happened during the test.

With these few simple steps, your R model has been operationalized in an automated Provenir risk decisioning process.

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Provenir Appoints Waldemar Faltenberg: to Lead Expansion in the DACH Region

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Provenir Appoints Waldemar Faltenberg:
to Lead Expansion in the DACH Region

Appointment underscores company’s growing presence in the region.

Parsippany, NJ —Jan. 11, 2022 — Provenir, a global leader in AI-powered risk decisioning software, today announced Waldemar Faltenberg has been appointed Senior Sales Executive, DACH, following the company’s rapid growth in 2021 and increased demand for its products and services in the region. Faltenberg will manage sales operations for Austria, Germany and Switzerland as Provenir continues to expand its presence worldwide.

Faltenberg brings more than 15 years’ experience in financial servicesto his new role. Prior to joining Provenir, he served in senior sales management and consulting positions at BFS finance GMBH, VR Smart Finanz AG, VR Leasing AG and Coface, developing marketing strategies, building and expanding partnerships and guiding clients through digitalization projects to modernize their online channels. 

“Waldemar has a wealth of experience in the German banking market and in credit risk decisioning specifically,” said Frode Berg, Managing Director EMEA. “An increasing number of organizations in EMEA are selecting Provenir as their risk decisioning partner. Waldemar will spearhead our efforts to engage with fintech innovators and innovative banks seeking access to industry-leading AI-powered risk decisioning software for real-time credit decisioning.”

“I am excited to join Provenir at this pivotal time as demand for solutions enabling real-time processes is surging to meet customers’ desire for instant decisions,” said Waldemar. “The market for financial services solutions in DACH is growing rapidly, and I look forward to continuing to build upon Provenir’s momentum in the region.”

Provenir’s AI-powered risk decisioning software is the industry’s first, true risk-decisioning ecosystem. It provides a comprehensive real-time view of unified decisioning-performance, third-party and historical data, as well as automated analytics. Through one unified digital experience, users can create the platform-as-a-service (Paas) cloud solution that best fits their business needs.

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Provenir Customer Reliant Funding Named LendIT Fintech Industry Awards ‘Top Small Business Lending Platform’ Finalist

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Provenir Customer Reliant Funding
Named LendIT Fintech Industry Awards ‘Top Small Business Lending Platform’ Finalist

Nationwide provider recognized for excellence in supporting more than 10,000 small businesses with fast, flexible funding

Parsippany, NJ — Jan. 12, 2022 — Provenir, a global leader in AI-powered risk decisioning software, today congratulated its customer Reliant Funding for being recognized as a LendIT Fintech Industry Awards 2021 finalist.

The fifth annual LendIT Fintech Industry Awards honor the world’s leading influencers and innovators in 14 unique categories. Reliant Funding was named a finalist in the “Top Small Business Lending Platform” category, which honors organizations based on a combination of loan performance, volume, growth, product diversity and innovation.

Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony and dinner on Feb. 8, at the Dealmakers Summit held during the LendIt Fintech Nexus event at the Lowes Miami Beach Hotel in Miami.

Reliant Funding provides customized, short-term funding to small businesses nationwide via its Merchant Cash Advance (MCA) offering that is based on a company’s cash flow. Since 2008, more than 10,000 businesses have trusted Reliant to provide them with fast, flexible funding to fuel their success.

During the last year, Reliant transformed its funding process to be a more robust online experience enabling small businesses to apply, receive customized offers, and receive funding in their account in a matter of hours. As a result, Reliant has seen an increase in both the number of applicants and fundings.

“We are honored to be named a finalist in the prestigious LendIT Fintech Industry Awards, which is a testament to the hard work and dedication of our employees,” said Steven Kietz, Chief Executive Officer, Reliant Funding. “We are proud to employ leading edge technology, as with our partnership with Provenir, to help address the small business lending needs of our customers to foster their growth and further their business goals.”  

“Reliant Funding continues to set the industry standard with the speed in which a small business can apply for working capital lending to have funding available within hours,” said Kathy Stares, executive Vice President, North America, Provenir. “We congratulate Reliant Funding on being named a LendIT Fintech Industry Awards finalist and look forward to continuing to support the company by providing the technology to quickly evaluate credit risk and deter fraud to better serve its customers.” Provenir’s AI-powered decisioning software is the industry’s first, true risk-decisioning ecosystem. It provides a comprehensive real-time view of unified decisioning-performance, third-party and historical data, as well as integrated advanced analytics through AI models. Through one unified digital experience, users can create the platform-as-a-service (Paas) cloud solution that best fits their business needs.

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Infographic: The Intersection of Credit Cards + Buy Now, Pay Later

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The Intersection of Credit Cards + Buy Now, Pay Later

How to Work Together to Accelerate Growth

62% of current Buy Now, Pay Later customers think it could replace their credit cards. But where does that leave credit cards? Discover how BNPL and the credit card industry can work together to encourage responsible lending, financial inclusion and profitable growth.

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