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Apple Card is reportedly approving customers with low credit scores Apple Card entered a limited launch in partnership with Goldman Sachs last week, and it's reportedly approving customers with low credit scores in a move to cast as wide a net as possible.
Seeking out subprime customers could be a risky move in the current economic climate, especially since other banks reportedly turned down the partnership due to profitability concerns.
Apple Card could appeal to a swath of underserved users, and though targeting this audience is shaping up to be a ripe customer acquisition play, it could make it difficult to attract spend.
Business Insider Intelligence's Jaime Toplin has the full story.
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| | | Late last week, Uber released mixed Q2 2019 earnings, with big overall losses but substantial growth in Uber Eats. Here's what we learned from Uber's Q2 earnings. Read More → |
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| | | The automotive giants will instead invest in manufacturing electric vehicles (EVs) while they continue to produce gasoline vehicles to meet the bulk of near-term demand in the US. Read More → |
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| | | Huawei is planning to invest up to $800 million over the next three years to expand its presence in Brazil via a new manufacturing facility in São Paulo. Read More → |
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| | | Genetic testing magnate Ancestry CEO Margo Georgiadis said that the startup plans to branch out from genealogy testing and expand into individualized medicine. Read More → |
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| | | Bank of America Merrill Lynch estimates that retail sales grew 0.6% in July, compared with a prior Wall Street consensus of 0.4%. Read More → |
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| | | HSBC USA partnered with Amount, a tech provider for financial institutions, to launch a digital lending platform that streamlines online personal loan applications. Read More → |
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| | | A sizable group of community banks are in various stages of consolidation, highlighting how the industry-wide merger and acquisition (M&A) trend is extending down market, as community and regional banks pursue greater scale and cost efficiencies. Read More → |
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| | | The fingerprints of more than 1 million people — as well as facial recognition information, usernames and passwords, and personal information of employees — were detected by security researchers working with vpnmentor on a publicly accessible database for biometrics lock system Biostar 2. Read More → |
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| | | Swedish networking giant Ericsson is looking to ramp up the public profile of its Edge Gravity data processing and connectivity group, according to a recent FierceWireless interview with group CEO Kyle Okamoto. Read More → |
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| | | If Amazon continues to land big healthcare partnerships for AWS, it could further cement its position as the No. 1 cloud computing provider and complicate competitors' growth strategies. Read More → |
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