Tearsheet’s 2020 Guide to Financial Data

Data, Partner

The key to onboarding good businesses (at scale)

• The challenges of business identity can exacerbate credit accessibility, fraud risks, and regulatory compliance issues.
• Hany Fam, Founder & CEO of Markaaz, shares an innovative and scalable approach to KYB which includes resolution, verification, and monitoring.

Banking, Data

FIs are warming up to alternative data and 93% think it will have a positive impact on their bottom lines

• Recent data shows that FIs are warming up to the possibilities alternative data presents, albeit slowly.
• If FIs can better determine who is a good credit risk, it's good for consumers as well as lenders’ own bottom lines.

Data, Lending

The Financial Data Evolution: Unraveling lending in open finance with Akoya’s Rishi Kapadia

• As part of Tearsheet Talks: Lending x Credit, Data, Rishi Kapadia, product manager at Akoya, discussed "The Financial Data Evolution: Unraveling Lending in Open Finance."
• Kapadia sees open finance facilitating an evolution in the whole user experience in the lending process.

Data, Lending

Best practices for fusing internal and external data to enhance credit decisioning for SMB lending with Stripe’s Yaakov Erlichman

• Learn strategic and tactical best practices for maximizing the fusion of internal and external data to enhance credit decisioning and risk management for SMB lending.
• Stripe's Yaakov Ehrlichman, head of capital and SMB risk, covers both conceptual and implementation considerations for reconciling data sources tailored to the unique needs of the SMB market.

Data, Partner

How payments providers can tap into the growing SMB market 

• The POS market continues to grow, driven by digitalization and new vertical offerings, but there's a lack of available data around SMB revenue, growth trends, and other metrics to help capture these businesses as customers.
• Data firm Enigma provides comprehensive data about the identity and financial health of millions of businesses, enabling visibility into real revenues and financial trends across this growing market.