The higher your credit rating, the more likely you are to feel good about the current state of credit. That is a key takeaway from TransUnion’s Q3 2023 Quarterly Credit Industry Insights Report.
TransUnion added lending decision firms to its Strategic Alliance Distribution Partner Program, like the fintech Provenir and GDS Link.
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
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Fiserv partnered with TransUnion to use their CreditVision Link software to help asses risk in their auto loan origination system; Fiserv is specifically looking to identify higher risk borrowers as they look to reach more of the underbanked; Steve Chaouki, executive vice-president and head of TransUnion’s financial services business unit, says the integration “enables lenders to score approximately 95% of the US adult population” as reported by Banking Technology. Source.
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.
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.
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.
Goldman Sachs is estimating a 500% return on its initial investment of $550 million in credit data provider TransUnion; the investment began in 2012 when Goldman Sachs bought TransUnion; since then TransUnion has gone public with shares opening at $22.50 on June 25, 2015 and currently trading at $38.23; Goldman Sachs has also earned $50 million from TransUnion's IPO and debt underwriting; additionally, Goldman Sachs is reporting a number of other advantages from the investment including support for its newly launched consumer lending platform Marcus which is a client of TransUnion. Source