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by sidr 1533 days ago
Why is this an advantage? The factors in assessing the risk are the creditworthiness of the customer and the amount. Also, I find it hard to believe that the creditworthiness of a customer actually fluctuates fast enough for Affirm to be able to do some arbitrage on it.
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Time of purchase, purchased goods, user behavior during the purchase, etc are additional inputs into a scoring model
The ol’ Algorithm-as-Patsy strategy. CFPB continues to sleep at the wheel, as designed.