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Credit card consolidation: a lower risk alternative?
Consolidation loans are tempting. They help members cut the interest rates they are paying. Monthly repayments can be reduced. The convenience of one combined monthly payment helps people budget better. But they are not without risk. One-off credit card consolidation may be a better option. Consolidation loans can be relatively large. Ideally all creditors need…
Read MoreOpen Banking for People and Planet
On Thursday 20th June NestEgg co-hosts a Finance Innovation Lab community event; Open Banking for People and Planet. Kicking off at 7pm, the event’s at the Google Start-up Campus. We’ll look at how Open Banking improves loan decisions and how this can be done at scale. Automated decisions can result in fair outcomes. Decision engines…
Read MoreNEW FEATURE: Improved Lending Analytics
Good data means better loan decisions. With 100s of data points flowing through our software, the potential for credit unions to strategise lending is unprecedented. Because of this we’ve enhanced our lending analytics. Additionally, they’re provided as standard with our Decision Engine. Lenders can take a step back from individual loan decisions and consider the…
Read MoreLending insights: County Court Judgments
Anonymised data helps us better understand the risk profile of credit union borrowers. Information on topics such as County Court Judgments (CCJs) benefits credit unions because they can benchmark applications, understanding decisions against country-wide trends. The data set on CCJs is relatively small and so this information should be viewed as an indicator of trends…
Read MoreNEW FEATURE: Pinpoint repayment problems instantly
New feature: Display and organise credit accounts according to their status: Active, paid, missed payments and defaults. Benefits: Faster assessment of repayment problems. Easy to identify trends. Credit reports take a long time to read. Lots of different creditors displayed in no particular order. Reading pages of digits to figure out if credit agreements are up…
Read MoreCase Study – Castle & Crystal Credit Union
We were thrilled to enrol UK Midlands-based Castle & Crystal Credit Union as an early adopter of our Decision Engine in July 2018. Making better decisions The Decision Engine means that applicants now get a decision within seconds of hitting the Apply button. Meanwhile, the credit union gets instant access to the basis for each decision…
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