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Lenders and servicers face particular challenges in setting priorities for innovation. Javelin’s research and advice can help clients navigate the increasingly complex field—filled not only with traditional lenders and servicers but also fintech upstarts—and provide an exceptional borrower experience and more timely, accurate decisions.
Leverage digital technology to bring better experiences to your customers
The future of digital lending is a continued march toward faster, less-intrusive customer experiences and more efficient back-office operations for lenders and servicers. Javelin’s careful, thorough research identifies existing pain points, coming opportunities, and useful insights as lenders plot their digital futures.
Digital Lending Research
Reports
2020 Javelin Trends
- Complimentary Webinar
- Date: March, 2020
- Author(s): Jacob Jegher, Mark Schwanhausser, Emmett Higdon, Krista Tedder, Austin Kilgore, Rachel Huber, Ian Benton
- Research Topic(s): Mobile & Online Banking, Cybersecurity, Tech & Infrastructure, Small Business, Digital Lending, Digital Strategy & Experience, Digital Banking, Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Javelin analysts share insights on what to expect as the banking industry enters the 2020.
Coronavirus Refi Boom Exposes Gaps in Mortgage Automation
- Impact Note
- Date: March 18, 2020
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore
- Research Topic(s): Digital Lending
Mortgage rates hit new record lows this month. But with lenders seemingly unable to scale operations to keep up with the surprise surge in demand, loans with historically low rates have become about as scarce as toilet paper during the coronavir...
Credit Karma Deal Positions Intuit to Corner Market on Consumer Data
- Impact Note
- Date: March 5, 2020
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore, Mark Schwanhausser
- Research Topic(s): Digital Lending, Digital Strategy & Experience, Digital Banking
Intuit’s planned $7.1 billion acquisition of Credit Karma has the potential to make it the dominant provider of consumer leads to digital financial institutions. But growing concerns about consumer data privacy and Intuit’s track record shepherd...
Trust in Lending
- Javelin Report
- Date: March 4, 2020
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore
- Research Topic(s): Digital Lending
This report leverages a new segmentation of Javelin’s Trust, Innovation, and Partnership (TIP) model designed to assess perceptions between borrowers of mortgage, auto, and other loans and consumers without loans. It explores the implications of...
Access to Credit Scores Empowers Consumers, Strengthens the Lending Ecosystem
- Whitepaper
- Date: February 10, 2020
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore, Mark Schwanhausser
- Research Topic(s): Digital Strategy & Experience, Digital Banking, Digital Lending
This original report, sponsored by TransUnion, examines the role that consumer access to credit scores and credit file data plays in the promotion of financial inclusion, responsible borrowing habits, and more transparent and accurate l...
How Access to Credit Scores Cultivates Better Borrowers and Safer Lending
- Complimentary Webinar
- Date: February, 2020
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore, Mark Schwanhausser
- Research Topic(s): Digital Lending
Join Javelin’s Austin Kilgore and Mark Schwanhausser, TransUnion’s Dan Richard and VantageScore’s Jeff Richardson for an in-depth discussion about the role consumer access to credit scores and credit file data plays in the promotion of financial...
Emerging Channels in Lending
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 11, 2019
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore
- Research Topic(s): Digital Lending
This report explores the boundaries being pushed across the consumer lending ecosystem to create easier, more engaging experiences than could have ever once been imagined and examines the strategies needed to make these new approaches work.
2020 Digital Lending Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 3, 2019
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore
- Research Topic(s): Digital Lending
This report provides an overview of three trends that will be critical for lenders to address or to start addressing in the coming year, along with the strategies and decisions lenders must consider to effectively respond to, or even get ahead o...
Lending to Gen Z
- Javelin Report
- Date: November 14, 2019
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore
- Research Topic(s): Digital Lending
This report explores the economic, societal and cultural circumstances that differentiate Gen Z from Millennials and older generations and details the steps lenders must begin taking now to adjust their approach to acquiring, selling to, and ser...
Near-Prime Lending: The Role of Alternative Data and AI
- Advisory Webinar: Client Login Required
- Date: October, 2019
- Author(s): Austin Kilgore
- Research Topic(s): Digital Lending
Austin Kilgore and Emmett Higdon will discuss why lenders struggle to extend loans and offer competitive pricing to these “near-prime” borrowers and how now, they’re increasingly turning to new underwriting techniques, such as alternative credit...