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Daily Archives: 16. September 2015
Can the time I spent on Facebook determine my credit score? The birth of a Chinese Lending Club…
…this is at least the hypothesis of China’s largest peer-to-peer lending site. They have rated 50m Chinese consumers for creditworthiness using social networking and computer gaming data. i.e., if you spend a lot of time chatting on social networks or playing computer … Continue reading
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Tagged alternative data, consumer protection, credit analysis, financial education
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