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Digital Lending Research

Reports

2020 Javelin Trends

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

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

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

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...

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