Startup aims to unearth good consumer credit risks

Startup aims to unearth good consumer credit risks
- February 22, 2016
- Bill Maurer, social sciences dean and Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion director, is quoted in the Orange County Business Journal Feb. 22, 2016
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From OCBJ:
RevolutionCredit takes a different tack, in that, besides being a for-profit company,
it captures the moment when a risky client wants to engage with a lender, said Bill
Maurer, director of the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at
the University of California, Irvine. … “The company has data that suggests that completing
their educational program actually enhances people’s repayment behavior.”
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