Esusu, which offers a rent reporting API used by Zillow, banks, and others to help renters build credit scores, raised a $50M Series C at a $1.2B valuation
Esusu, a fintech platform that helps renters build credit scores, has raised $50 million in a Series C funding round at a $1.2 billion valuation. LinkedIn: Jenna Anita Nicholas , Esusu , and Evan Leap...
DoorDash partners with Klarna to offer payment plans, including credit options for purchases of $35 or more; Grubhub also uses Klarna as a payment option
in Case You Need a Loan to Pay for Your Burrito Jordan Valinsky / CNN : DoorDash will soon let users eat now and pay in installments Niket Nishant / Reuters : NYSE-bound Klarna signs payments deal wit...
GM, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, and others added optional features in their apps to rate people's driving in recent years, offering the data to brokers like LexisNexis
LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew about every trip G.M. drivers had taken in their cars … Mastodon: @dangillmor@mastodon.social . X: @evan_greer , @ccanonne_ , ...
TransUnion, one of the three major credit agencies in the US, plans to provide credit scores for individuals applying for loans on blockchain-based protocols
Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk :
Equifax says it fixed a “technology coding issue” that sources say sent lenders faulty credit scores on millions of US consumers from mid-March to early April
and good ones Irina Ivanova / CBS News : Equifax issued wrong credit scores for “millions” of customers, report says Tweets: Jamie Righetti / @jamierighetti : credit scores are a scam and a form of ec...
A look at crowdsourced juries in China, like Meituan's “kangaroo jury” made up of volunteers who adjudicate disputes between buyers and sellers on its platform
Jennifer Conrad / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @scottthurm Tweets: @wired : When ecommerce took off in China, the country lacked structures like widespread credit scores and effective consumer protecti...
Investigation finds ransomware hackers are publishing sensitive information of schoolchildren on the dark web; over 1,200 US K-12 schools had data leaks in 2021
Most don't have bank passwords. Few have credit scores yet. And still, parts of the internet are awash in the personal information of millions of schoolchildren.
Investigation finds ransomware hackers are publishing sensitive information of schoolchildren on the dark web; over 1,200 US K-12 schools had data leaks in 2021
Most don't have bank passwords. Few have credit scores yet. And still, parts of the internet are awash in the personal information of millions of schoolchildren. Tweets: @kevincollier , @kevincollie...
EU's data protection supervisor recommends that personal data such as search queries and browsing history should not be used for the assessment of credit scores
EU's data protection supervisor recommends that personal data such as search queries and browsing history should not be used for the assessment of credit scores
The European Union's lead data protection supervisor has recommended on Thursday that personal data such as search queries … Tweets: @carnage4life , @cubicleapril , @hypervisible , and @campuscodi Twe...