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Let’s Finovate

The last couple days at Finovate San Francisco have been fun.  The conference – focused on one-track, demo-only, 7 minute limit presentations by any financial technology company willing to spend a couple grand to hawk their wares to assembled gaggle – is getting big enough, as Brian McLoughlin pointed out,…

Rent in credit report!!!!

This is a big-deal announcement: “As of December 2010, Experian® will include positive rental payment data as part of a consumer’s credit file.”   Sound dry?  Not so: My numbers are old, but before the recession 50-odd million Americans had no or thin credit reports.  So, if you’re an immigrant…

Zestfully Clean

You’re not fully clean unless you’ve tried to get a ZestCash loan, except you won’t have any luck, unless you live in Utah.  Former Googler Douglas Merrill and former Cap-Onener Shawn Budde introduced ZestCash today. It’s the latest entrant in the anti-payday online short-term lending space, following suit to Wonga,…