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Zoot Enterprises and the machinery of yes
A Montana software company makes the complicated business of credit decisions move faster. Its real trick is giving lenders room to change their minds.
Applied Data Finance bets a bank statement can change a lender’s mind
The company behind Personify is using cash flow data to reconsider borrowers conventional credit models overlook. Its experiment widened approvals - but access and affordability remain two different questions.
Tilt Wants Your Paycheck to Tell a Better Credit Story
The former Empower Finance is turning bank-account activity into access to cash and credit. Its bet: a thin credit file can hide a perfectly capable borrower.
Nova Credit
Nova Credit is a San Francisco-based credit infrastructure and analytics company that helps lenders extend credit responsibly to people traditional bureaus miss. Founded in 2016 by three Stanford classmates, it operates as a consumer reporting agency built around three products: Credit Passport, which translates a newcomer's international credit history into a U.S.-readable report; Cash Atlas, a cash flow underwriting tool that reads consumer-permissioned bank transaction data; and Income Navigator, which automates income and employment verification. Banks and lenders including American Express, HSBC, Chase, and PayPal use Nova Credit to reach credit-invisible and thin-file consumers.