By the end of 2022, crypto lenders will check customer credit reports through a partnership between Spring Labs and TransUnion.
TransUnion's latest quarterly study found most Americans could be experiencing a 'personal recession' with 54% stating their incomes were not keeping up with inflation.
The results of TransUnion’s new global credit study challenge industry perceptions and give direction to serving new-to-credit consumers.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has fined TransUnion and Equifax over $23.2 million for deceptively advertising services; the agencies reportedly advertised credit services costing customers over $200 as free and misled customers about the use of credit reports they obtained; according to the CFPB, TransUnion will pay $13.93 million to consumers and a $3 million fine while Equifax will pay $3.8 million to consumers and a $2.5 million fine. Source
A recent report by the Cleveland Fed on online lending has caused quite the controversy over its content; the Marketplace Lending Association said the Fed should retract the report; even TransUnion, whose data the report relied upon, took issue with how they presented the material; “We have no understanding of how the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland could have used our data to reach the conclusions they did,” Ezra Becker, SVP at TransUnion, said to American Banker; the Fed stated the terminology used in the report has caused confusion but have yet to retract the report. Source.
According to TransUnion Insights, in Q3 2022 consumers turned to unsecured personal loans and credit cards for breathing room.
Today, PeerIQ announced a partnership with information solutions provider TransUnion. PeerIQ is known for its data and analytics capabilities in...
In their weekly update PeerIQ covers the Trump tax plan, the recent Transunion consumer lending report and marketplace lending securitization news; the Transunion report shows that fintech companies have originated 30 percent of unsecured consumer loans in 2016; Darien Rowayton Bank and SoFi filed securitization deals; PeerIQ also took a closer look at SoFi’s SCLP 2017-6 deal which was the largest on SoFi’s shelf so far. Source.
Online lending data and analytics platform PeerIQ announced their latest offering, a consumer credit suite backed by TransUnion data; the suite includes TransUnion’s depersonalized consumer credit data from the year 2000 to present day; users of the suite can see credit trends, vintage analysis, benchmarking analysis and more. Source.
TransUnion added lending decision firms to its Strategic Alliance Distribution Partner Program, like the fintech Provenir and GDS Link.