Aug 31 – Sep 6, 2026
What the fintech newsletters in this directory covered on Lending & Credit that week — drawn from 6 posts across 5 newsletters, and nothing else.
Lending and credit coverage last week touched on credit bureau practices, regional fintech financing, and public company earnings. American Banker Fintech reported on comments from Pulte describing credit bureaus as "cartel-like" and cutting costs, alongside a mention of a bi-merge approach, though the piece did not elaborate further on the specifics of these plans.
Fintech Futures published two items in this space. One covered Nayla, which secured $17.9m in funding to grow micro financing operations in Saudi Arabia. The other described Maxim's launch of UK credit cards aimed at the African diaspora, developed in partnership with Paymentology.
AI for FIs covered Blend's mortgage agent product, noting that it has reached 50,000 loans, without further detail on additional metrics or context.
Earnings and financial performance were addressed by two other newsletters. Fintech Business Weekly examined Coastal's recent earnings miss in its Fintech Recap segment, framing the piece around lessons drawn from that outcome, though the title does not specify what those lessons were. Linas's Newsletter covered market-related developments involving PayPal and Stripe, noting that PayPal rejected Stripe at $60.50 and now trades at $53. The same newsletter also addressed Affirm's Q4 2026 results, citing a $1.6B profit described as 90% tax-related, a 5.8% figure said to be decisive, and a discussion of why AFRM stock is priced for the bull case, though further detail on these figures was not provided in the title.
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