The new partnership aims to increase access to financial services for individuals and small businesses; according to a Chinese press release translated by TechNode, the “credit factory” (in Chinese) model is a business model mainly used for credit certification of small and micro-sized enterprises as well as individuals; loans lent to such groups are small, but are lent at high frequency; the adoption of the “credit factory” mode, thanks to its high efficiency and economies of scale in handling petty loans, can help big financial firms gain some ground lost to the country’s mushrooming small loan companies in the microfinance market; an upgrade to the traditional “credit factory”, Dianrong-Quark Credit Factory utilizes such fintech means as big data, anti-fraud management systems and decision engine; it can help lenders reduce manual operations, save costs and cut operational risks through its powerful quantitative system when they handle credit certification for individuals or small and micro-sized businesses. Source
