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Provenir Achieves Record Growth in 2020

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Provenir Achieves Record Growth in 2020

Record Revenue and Growing Customer Base Drives Expansion

Parsippany, NJ, April 14, 2021Provenir, a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, today shared significant growth achievements in 2020 and signaled continued record growth expectations for 2021. During 2020, the company grew revenues, expanded into new markets, and increased its customer base, demonstrating the accelerating need for real-time risk decisioning solutions.

“We are proud of our performance in 2020 and our momentum is only growing in 2021,” said Larry Smith, Founder and CEO of Provenir. “Customers are demanding immediacy in all interactions so having real-time decisioning capabilities is critical. Provenir helps fintechs, financial institutions, and payment providers make smarter decisions faster by simplifying the risk decisioning process. We are making significant investments across our organization to continue anticipating market needs and delivering agile and innovative solutions.”

Revenue for Provenir’s SaaS solutions increased 25% year over year, driven by a 22% increase in its customer base of disrupters, and its increasing presence in the Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) and challenger bank markets. The company also expanded into new markets around the globe including Latin America, UAE, and Asia, and now serves clients in more than 30 countries.

Additional achievements include:

  • Invested 25% of revenue in research and development to continue developing industry-defining solutions
  • Grew its employee base by almost 20% with plans to expand by 35-50% in 2021, capitalizing on attracting talent passionate about innovation
  • Experienced a 20% increase in transactions, processing more than 2 billion transactions over 11 data centers
  • Added capabilities for innovation in areas like eCommerce, eWallet, digital banking, BNPL, and open banking
  • Recognized by the Canadian Lenders Association as a top Fintech Innovator for 2021
  • Grew its Salesforce partnership with new risk decisioning solutions built on Salesforce Lightning

“This year, we’re introducing even more innovative capabilities to help organizations make real-time risk decisions with the rollout of the Provenir AI-Powered Risk Decisioning Platform,” Smith added. “We launched the first of several new products, the Provenir Data Cloud + Provenir Marketplace, and will continue to provide the leading-edge products our customers need in this digital-first world.”

About Provenir

Provenir helps fintechs, financial institutions, and payment providers make smarter decisions faster by simplifying the risk decisioning process. Its no-code, cloud-native SaaS products make it easy to rapidly create sophisticated decisioning workflows. With a global data marketplace for seamless integration, powerful AI & machine learning models, and real-time insights, Provenir has supercharged decisioning speed. Provenir works with disruptive financial services organizations in more than 33 countries and processes more than 2 billion transactions annually.

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TransUnion Joins Provenir Marketplace to Help Businesses Accelerate Credit Risk Decisions

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TransUnion Joins Provenir Marketplace
to Help Businesses Accelerate Credit Risk Decisions

Industry-Leading One-Stop Data Hub Provides Access to Hundreds of Data Sources

Parsippany, NJ,  April 13, 2021Provenir, a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, today announced that TransUnion (NYSE: TRU) has joined the Provenir Marketplace.

The Provenir Marketplace platform provides organizations with a one-stop data hub for easy access to data covering open banking, KYC/KYB, fraud prevention, credit risk, verifications, social media, collections, affordability and more.

To meet consumer and business demands for instant approvals, organizations need immediate access to a wide range of data sources to make informed, accurate risk decisions. TransUnion, a global information and insights company, will provide Provenir Marketplace users with access to industry leading data, analytics and solutions for real-time credit decisioning and consumer or device authentication, ensuring consumers and organizations can transact with confidence.

“This unique Marketplace brings together the leading stewards of data from around the globe to accelerate risk decisioning,” said Kathy Stares, Executive Vice President, Provenir Americas. “The wealth of data TransUnion brings will be extremely valuable to organizations seeking to make more informed decisions across the customer lifecycle.” 

The Marketplace provides users with access to a wide variety of traditional and alternative global data, enabling them to make smarter risk decisions faster. By leveraging distinctive identifiers, information and insights available from TransUnion alternative and trended data innovations, organizations can gain a deeper and more diversified view of consumers and stay ahead of evolving risk strategies.

“The access to data provided by the Provenir Marketplace aligns with our company’s intent to provide information that can help people around the world access the opportunities that lead to a higher quality of life,” said Aaron Smith, Vice President – Global Technology Alliances. “We are excited to provide access to our incredibly valuable data through this innovative data sharing community.”

About Provenir

Provenir helps fintechs, financial institutions, and payment providers make smarter decisions faster by simplifying the risk decisioning process. Its no-code, cloud-native SaaS products make it easy to rapidly create sophisticated decisioning workflows. With a global data marketplace for seamless integration, powerful AI and machine learning models, and real-time insights, Provenir has supercharged decisioning speed. Provenir works with disruptive financial services organizations in more than 33 countries and processes more than 2 billion transactions annually.

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Provenir Introduces Industry-Leading Data Cloud + Marketplace to Support Rapid Product Innovation and Superior Customer Experiences

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Provenir Introduces Industry-Leading Data Cloud + Marketplace
to Support Rapid Product Innovation and Superior Customer Experiences

Access to Global Fintech Data Ecosystem Accelerates and Improves Risk Decisioning

Parsippany, NJ, March 31, 2021Provenir, a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, is pioneering how fintech organizations access a greater variety of data to support rapid product innovation and superior customer experiences via the launch of the Provenir Data Cloud and the Provenir Marketplace

Data-as-a-service will define the future of data consumption. The Provenir Marketplace provides organizations with a one-stop hub for easy access to traditional fraud, credit, identity, open banking, and alternative data, bringing offerings from global data providers together in an easy-to-use cloud solution.

With the Provenir Marketplace, users can select specific data sources through the Data Cloud’s single API to create rich, customized datasets that best meet their needs. With fully maintained API connections to all data providers and a no-code interface, users can easily connect to new data sources in minutes and test data across their decisioning processes. Rapid integration provided by Provenir eliminates the need for extensive internal development resources.

“Innovative fintechs are using a greater variety of data to drive superior customer experiences,” said Larry Smith, Founder and CEO of Provenir. “The Provenir Data Cloud in conjunction with the Provenir Marketplace is a fintech data ecosystem designed to empower organizations to launch new products in record time, enhance the customer experience, and accelerate and improve the accuracy of their risk decisions.”

Provenir partners with local and global data suppliers across every continent to support single and multi-country strategies. The Marketplace is currently comprised of 25 partners providing a breadth of data sources. New data providers are joining the Marketplace at a rapid pace, and Provenir expects to triple the number of partners by the end of 2021.  

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Provenir Empowers YapStone to Onboard Merchants in Real-time

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Provenir Empowers YapStone
to Onboard Merchants in Real-time

Provenir announced the implementation of its risk decisioning and data sciences platform with YapStone, a leading international Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution provider. To date, YapStone has implemented the Provenir decisioning engine for its Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti Money Laundering (AML), and fraud and risk assessments.

In a landscape in which nearly anyone can become a merchant, marketplace companies need payment partners, like YapStone, who can provide real-time merchant onboarding and monitoring capabilities to support the digital economy. Using Provenir helps streamline YapStone’s innovations in marketplace payments, equipping YapStone’s technology with the scalability and flexibility to process anticipated annual volumes in excess of 250 million transactions.

“YapStone maintains a competitive edge by mitigating risk for its marketplace partners in real-time while assuming the liability for each transaction,” says Bruce Dragt, EVP of Product at YapStone. “Provenir also proved they could provide high levels of automation for merchant onboarding while supporting real-time, low-latency processing. Their no-code, visual tools made it very easy for us to design and configure our business process and go live quickly.”

As a result of its significant focus on technological innovation and data analysis, YapStone has been separately named on the Deloitte Fast 500, The San Francisco Business Times Top 50, and the 2018 Wealthfront Career-Launching Companies List. It has also earned a place on the Inc. 5000 List of Fastest-Growing Private Companies for ten consecutive years.

“YapStone is operating in a burgeoning economy where large global marketplaces are growing at an overwhelming pace,” remarks Paul Thomas, Managing Director, Provenir. “The growth of these marketplaces has exponentially increased the opportunity for YapStone as a marketplace payments service provider that can underwrite a large volume of payments and bear the liability while its partners focus on growth.”

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Provenir welcomes Frode Berg as new General Manager for EMEA

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Provenir welcomes Frode Berg
as new General Manager for EMEA

Provenir announces the appointment of Frode Berg as new General Manager to spearhead growth in Europe and power credit decisioning.

Parsippany, NJ, March 11, 2021 – Provenir, a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, welcomes Frode Berg as the new General Manager for EMEA. In his new role, Frode will be responsible for overseeing Provenir’s accelerated growth in the region and enabling new and existing clients, which include Klarna, Avida Finans, Novuna Capital and White Oak UK, to make smarter decisions, faster.

Frode joins Provenir with a wealth of commercial leadership experience as well as deep expertise in data, analytics and decisioning. Prior to joining Provenir, Frode held senior leadership roles at Experian Nordics and Dun & Bradstreet, leading regional business units including sales, operations, and innovation.

“Frode’s deep product knowledge and leadership experience in our markets will help take Provenir to greater heights,” said Larry Smith, CEO and Founder. “For more than 15 years, we have delivered best-in-class credit decisioning, data and analytics solutions to clients around the globe. Frode will help us expand our presence and identify new decisioning markets in EMEA.” 

Commenting on his appointment, Frode added: “I’m delighted to join Provenir at such an exciting phase of their journey. The level of disruption across the industry is high, and Provenir offers unique decisioning, data and analytics solutions to support the rapid digitization of the sector. I have long admired their impressive track record of solving complex business challenges for Fintechs and established financial institutions.”

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Mastercard Accelerates Deployment of Digital First Solutions

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Mastercard Accelerates Deployment
of Digital First Solutions

Mastercard Engage platform expansion provides customers with fast and easy access to new set of qualified technology partners

Mastercard is expanding the Engage platform, offering customers easy access to a growing network of qualified technology and fintech partners that can quickly deploy Mastercard Digital First solutions. These solutions will enable customers to provide entirely digital payment experiences for consumers, from acquisition and card usage to management and engagement, with a physical card option.

“The expansion of Mastercard Engage is happening at a critical time when financial institutions and digital players are seeking to fulfill consumer demand for digital experiences but may not have all of the in-house capabilities to do so,” said Andrea Scerch, President, Consumer Products for Issuers. “Instead of merely supporting physical cards with digital experiences, we are powering consumer choice by building a robust network of qualified enablers that can help our customers quickly launch digital products from the ground up.”

The Mastercard Engage network includes partners that provide various components and integration capabilities across the Digital First customer journey to deliver a frictionless payment experience, including Signzy to support digital onboarding and instant eKYC services, Provenir to provide real-time risk decisioning, issuer processors such as Galileo, i2c and Marqeta, and end-to-end Digital First enablers Thales and Verestro.

“Agility and innovation are key in a digital-first market and businesses need purpose-built technology designed to outpace market evolution,” said Larry Smith, Founder and CEO at Provenir. “We’re excited to bring Provenir’s real-time risk decisioning technology to the Mastercard Engage network to help deploy best-in-class solutions.”

Mastercard has a long history of working with technology and fintech partners to build the future of payments. The evolution of the Mastercard Engage platform demonstrates the company’s continued commitment to enabling customers in building out their digital first consumer journey.

The Mastercard Engage program is now open to support Digital First deployment, provide on-the-ground assistance as well as training through the Mastercard Academy, and promotion to Mastercard’s extensive customer base. Visit the Mastercard Engage website for more information.

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White Oak Chooses Provenir Cloud to Power Business Lending

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White Oak Chooses Provenir Cloud to Power Business Lending

White Oak Chooses Provenir Cloud to Power Business Lending

Provenir supports independent business lender White Oak with a cloud-based risk analytics platform to power its business lending credit decisioning process.

Provenir, a global leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, announced today that White Oak has chosen Provenir technology to support its digitization and innovation strategy, accelerating a move to a fully automated origination process across its business loans and asset finance products.

Nick Isaacs, Chief Risk Officer, Leases and Loans, at White Oak said, “For over 30 years, we’ve been helping thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses across the UK by helping them with their working capital needs. As an accredited CBILS lender, we are continuing to see higher volumes of applications via our direct and aggregated channels, and we are committed to delivering the smoothest lending experience possible.”

“We have chosen Provenir to ensure we have the best technology in place to provide our clients with a better service. This partnership allows us to make real-time risk decisions with a fully automated lending experience. Provenir has an impressive track record in the industry and their low-code platform will give us the flexibility to build new models, integrate new data sources easily and enhance our underwriting process.”

Chris Kneen, Sales Director at Provenir adds, “We are delighted to be supporting White Oak with our cloud-based risk analytics platform. They are playing a crucial role in the UK SME finance market right now and have a clear vision to further disrupt the way businesses can access funds with little fuss – adopting our agile technology to enhance the speed and accuracy of credit decisions is a key component of their innovation strategy. We’re really excited to have White Oak onboard to our cloud-based solution which will complement their first-class customer service.”

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Provenir announces its first client in El Salvador: Flexiplan

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Provenir announces its first client in El Salvador:
Flexiplan

Flexiplan selects Provenir to automate real-time risk decisioning for motorcycle finance

Miami, Florida – September 16, 2020 – Provenir, a leading risk analytics software company, today announced Flexiplan as a new client in San Salvador, El Salvador. Flexiplan is a motorcycle lending company that provides financial solutions to help clients improve their day-to-day activities across three key areas: mobility, productivity, and quality of life.

In the pursuit of growing its business, Flexiplan chose Provenir to meet all of its credit risk decisioning needs including real-time loan approval, automation, and easy API integration. With more efficient decisioning processes, Flexiplan will be able to more effectively manage risk, giving it the agility to respond to its customers through its digital platform and point of sale.

Tito Gutiérrez, Country Director of Flexiplan, emphasized: “At Flexiplan we believe that flexible credit, enabled by the modern technology, is a powerful tool that promotes commerce and a better quality of life for consumers. With its best-in-class technology for global financial companies, Provenir will be one of our strategic partners helping us operationalize risk models and provide real-time solutions to the market.”

Gabriela Herrera, Business Development Manager for Latin America, highlighted: “We are delighted to have Flexiplan as our first client in El Salvador. It is a pleasure to help them replace the manual processes and support its digitization journey. Provenir’s powerful Platform will not just power automation of the risk decisioning process in real-time to approve loans in milliseconds, but will also drive business growth. Companies like Flexiplan represent a great opportunity for Provenir and we are happy to have them as part of our expansion in Latin America.”

Provenir—through its innovative product—helps startups, Fintechs, and financial institutions with the digital transformation process. In the case of Flexiplan, it will help mitigating credit risk, as well as improving the loan approval rate for motorcycle financing.

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A ‘Virtual’ Team Effort: GoBear Deploys Provenir Cloud to Power Digital Financial Services in ASEAN

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A ‘Virtual’ Team Effort:
GoBear Deploys Provenir Cloud to Power Digital Financial Services in ASEAN

A ‘virtual’ team effort; GoBear deploys Provenir Cloud to power digital financial services in ASEAN

Provenir supports GoBear’s financial inclusion goals with cloud-based risk analytics platform deployed via ‘virtual’ teams

Singapore – April 22, 2020– Provenir, a leader in risk decisioning and data analytics software, announced today that GoBear has chosen the Provenir Platform to power innovative user experiences for its customers, and has deployed the technology through a ‘virtual’ team approach amidst the current COVID-19 crisis. Singapore-based fintech GoBear is an industry-leading and highly innovative financial services organization focused on improving financial inclusion throughout the ASEAN region.

The Provenir Platform was selected for its ability to support GoBear’s innovation plans and to empower the business to meet the increasing demand for simplified, digital-first banking experiences throughout the region. GoBear will use the Platform to process and assess insurance and loan applications in real-time through Provenir’s cloud-based risk analytics solution and use the low-code Platform to rapidly implement and iterate risk processes.

“To fulfil our core mission to improve financial inclusion, we needed to provide a simplified, fast and effortless experience for our users,” Nelius Strydom, Chief Product Officer of GoBear explained. “Provenir’s user-friendly solution allows us to be in full control of our risk strategy while powering real-time decisioning for our customers. With the speed and flexibility of the Provenir Platform driving our decisioning, we will be able to manage and configure business logic or risk policy as the company grows.”

“We are very excited to have GoBear onboard using Provenir’s cloud-based Risk Analytics and Decisioning Platform to deliver a real-time, world-class digital experience to its customers,” said John Warren, Provenir’s General Manager of the APAC region. “Despite the constraints of the COVID-19 crisis, huge dedication and versatility has been shown by Provenir and GoBear’s ‘virtual’ teams to deploy the platform on time yet 100% remotely. This is a great example of adapting in these challenging times to continue to deliver for our clients.”

Patrick Tan, Regional Account Director at Provenir added, “We originally planned to conduct a large part of the deployment onsite. This was quickly reviewed in light of the growing crisis and the development and training teams from Asia and the UK were able to collaborate seamlessly via remote technology – an incredible coordinated effort. We’re confident that we can help GoBear achieve the agility and scalability it needs to succeed and grow in Asia’s increasingly competitive financial services landscape.”

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Decisioning Technology: The Foundation for Deeper Connections, Improved User Experience, and Increased Agility

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Decisioning Technology:
The Foundation for Deeper Connections, Improved User Experience, and Increased Agility

Provenir’s Kathy Stares shares advice on how Credit Unions can use decisioning technology to advance risk management and improve the user experience on the Credit Union Business website!

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