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Using big data and AI, Chinese fintech startup Quant Group simplifies and accelerates loan processing, and assures monetary security for financial institutions
By Ke Feng
When Zhou Hao returned to China after working for more than a decade on Wall Street, he was stunned to discover he could not get a personal loan from a Chinese bank. Even though Zhou held multiple gold credit cards in the United States, his loan applications were rejected because of his limited domestic financial record.
Zhou, who has a doctorate in Physics from Rice University, realized not only that, due to insufficient data, the way banks had traditionally evaluated one's financial capacity and personal credit was flawed, but also that there must be many other people struggling to obtain loans. Furthermore, the procedure for loan approval was overcomplicated, and, due to a lack of flexibility on the part of banks, the process often took weeks or even months. Zhou, who had worked for Morgan Stanley, Capital One and Barclays, decided to set up his own business to fix the system and meet the market demand for loans. In 2014, he founded the Quant Group, which has quickly become one of the most influential FinTech companies in China.
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While potential borrowers are forced to undergo a thoroughly unpleasant process by traditional Chinese banks in order to receive approval for personal loans, the online application Credit Wallet, a pilot product made by the Quant Group, allows users access to small loans of up to RMB 10,000 with only a few inputs and clicks.
By collaborating with major e-commerce channels and online payment outlets such as Taobao and WeChat Pay, Credit Wallet, with the user's permission, creates a financial profile based on data obtained from one's online purchasing records, behaviors and credit history. Through its built-in big data based AI algorithms the application estimates the likelihood and the ability of the user to repay loans.
"Traditionally we make judgments based on our past experience but that's largely limited by one's access to information and level of personal knowledge, thus it's often too subjective. On the contrary, a model combining the strength of data and machine learning can be much more accurate and efficient," said Zhou in a recent interview.
Credit Wallet acts as an intermediary between individuals and financial service providers of small, short-term personal loans. The application generates accurate and thorough risk analysis reports and shares them with partner financial institutions, which allows the institutions to make better, faster, low risk decisions about whether to grant loans to users of the application. Working class people in particular have benefitted from the faster loan process and flexibility. Credit Wallet helps them achieve their goals, whether they are to study abroad, to travel to a nearby exotic island or to set up a small business. According to Zhou, loans from Credit Wallet can be granted in as little as 10 minutes, and the average approval time is 13.3 times faster than that of traditional banks.
The Credit Wallet also helps borrowers get loans at lower interest rates by negotiating deals with financial institutions on their behalf. Based on one's spending history, personal credit and the size of the loan, the interest rate can be as low as 0.78%, which is much lower than the 7%-10% rate banks charge.
Within only 2 years, the number of monthly transactions on Credit Wallet has reached RMB 1 billion, and the number of users has grown from in the thousands to over 10 million.
Strong and steady capital injection
According to Qianzhan.com, a leading Chinese industry research institution, total internet consumption in China had reached RMB 998.34 billion by 2017 and is estimated to reach RMB 1,942.89 billion by the end of 2018.
And the Quant Group is ahead of the curve, which has translated into significant capital gains. The first FinTech company in China to use big data and artificial intelligence to control financial risk, it has been favored by many reputed investment groups since the beginning. In 2014, the company was selected to join the Microsoft Cloud Accelerator project. That same year the Quant Group raised an undisclosed amount of series A financing from Fosun Kinzon Capital, Banyan Capital and China Grow Capital and of series B financing from Zhixin Capital, Star VC and Oriental Fortune Capital, among others. Notably, Star VC was founded by a group of Chinese movie stars, including Ren Quan, Li Bingbing and Huang Xiaoming.
In 2016, the Quant Group raised RMB 500 million in Series C financing from Sunshine Insurance Group Corporation, Fosun Capital and Guosen Hongsheng Investment Co., Ltd.
With such a strong and continuous injection of capital, the Quant Group has achieved steady growth and is planning an initial public offering in New York for the near future. Meanwhile, the company continues to study big data and deep machine learning in order to improve its services and stay ahead of the competition.
Tightening regulations and data privacy a concern
Edited by Wang Xinlei and Wendy Lovinger


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Dr. Bistan grew up in New Berlin, WI, and attended the University of Wisconsin- Madison for his undergraduate education. In 1997, Dr. Bistan graduated at the top of his class from Marquette University School of Dentistry and was selected as one of two general practice residents at the Zabloki VA Hospital in Milwaukee. While there, he received extensive training in oral surgery, endodontics, and advanced complex dental reconstruction.
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TEL AVIV — The family of a Palestinian terrorist who murdered a 13-year-old Israeli teenager asleep in her bed will receive $350 a month from a Palestinian fund for "martyrs," prompting Israel to deduct the funds from its tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority.
The new measure is intended to remove what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls "an incentive for murder," the Times of Israel reported. Set up in 1967, the budget for the martyr stipend is currently set at $170 million a year and is funded by the PA. The PA receives millions of dollars in annual aid from the West and other Arab nations.
"Terror has become a comfortable business for families," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon. "This encourages violence."
However, Palestinians say it is neither money nor anti-Israel incitement that drives people to commit acts of terror. Instead, they claim, it is the Israeli "occupation" coupled with revenge killings for Palestinians killed in the conflict.
Nasser Tarayrah, the father of Muhammad, a 17-year-old who stabbed Hallel Ariel in her sleep, is one of those who espouses this view.
"I don't think anyone is willing to sacrifice his life for money. And for us as a family, all the money in the world won't replace my son," he told the Times of Israel.
Nasser, an affluent merchant, pointed out the high price his family will pay, including the government's demolition of their two-story villa.
For some Palestinians, however, the stipend is their primary source of income. If the terrorist killed by Israel was married, the family receives an additional $100 and $50 for every child. Children of "martyrs" also receive support until 18 and, if they choose to go to university, continue receiving support until graduation.
Malehah Awwad, 56, receives about $700 a month for the loss of her two children.
Around 35,000 families of Palestinian terrorists – among them suicide bombers – receive the stipend.
Israel transfers about $125 million a month, or $1.5 billion a year, to the Palestinian Authority in tax and customs rebates, the report said.
Palestinian officials justify the fund as welfare payments aimed at providing "social protection" for the families.
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Posters in Muhammad Tarayrah's hometown praise him as a "heroic martyr." In the wake of the stabbing attack, his mother told journalists that her son was "a hero" who made her "proud."


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- Calories 362
- Fat 22g
- Satfat 14g
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The death of Joe Strummer, at the age of fifty, on December 22, 2002 came as a deep shock. However the colossal response of the media to Joe's passing was a tribute to his enduring status as a musical archetype and legend. For example, in addition to front-page coverage in most major newspapers, The London Times also ran a respectful editorial lamenting his demise; television news carried lengthy tributes; at the Newcastle-Liverpool match at St James's Park on Boxing Day, before a crowd of 52,000 football fans, a minute's silence was held for the former Clash frontman before kick-off, an extraordinary gesture, but one that showed how Joe's combination of toughness and sensitivity touched people's hearts. There is no exaggeration in the way that he is now spoken of as part of a tradition of folk protest singers stretching back to the likes of Woody Guthrie, on an iconic level with the likes of John Lennon, Bob Dylan and Bob Marley.
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The record was made in several bursts. By the time that the first two-week session began, in February of 2002, this last Mescaleros line-up had settled as Martin Slattery (keyboards, guitar, sax), Scott Shields (guitar, also occasionally drums and bass), Simon Stafford (bass) and Luke Bullen (drums). After Joe's unexpected sad end, Slattery and Shields finished Streetcore at Unit 21 in Hackney, working on it for a month with Cameron Craig, the engineer who had recorded and mixed it. The record and sleeve were put together from detailed notes that Joe, with strange prescience, had elaborately detailed during the early part of December 2002.
Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros Streetcore Track Listing:
1. Coma Girl
2. Get Down Moses
3. Long Shadow
4. Arms Aloft
5. Ramshackle Day Parade
6. Redemption Song
7. All In A Day
8. Burnin' Streets
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Miss Fanny
I was struck by Austen's wit. You can easily read over her amusing satire and take her style for granted, but when you look a bit closer, you realise her writing's full of her biting tongue-in-cheek-ness.
For some reason, this book [which contains perhaps the most boring and, arguably, the most insipid of Austen's heroines] and the heroine Fanny Price, was Austen's favourite, of all her books.
It's hard to know why. Fanny doesn't have a lot going for her. She's not 'tolerably pretty', with good teeth, fine eyes and a biting wit like Lizzy, she isn't an avid gothic-romance reader like Catherine; she doesn't have Anne's tragic romance and intelligence or Emma's penchant for matchmaking.
You could almost read the book and miss Fanny, she's such a shadow.
I like this movie adaption with Frances O'Connor - except for a couple of fast-forward scenes..
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Prairie Provident Resources Inc. ("Prairie Provident" or the "Company") announces that it has filed and obtained a receipt for a preliminary short form prospectus in connection with an overnight marketed offering (the "Offering") of common shares of the Company ("Common Shares"), including Commons Shares to be issued as "flow-through shares" with respect to "Canadian exploration expenses" ("CEE Flow-Through Shares") and Common Shares to be issued as "flow-through shares" with respect to "Canadian development expenses" ("CDE Flow-Through Shares"), all within the meaning of the Income Tax Act (Canada) and regulations thereunder (the "Tax Act").
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Originally posted by gort51
Good Grief, is it any wonder the Whole World is suspicious of the USA.
I just observed that Navy laser weapon video...goodness gracious what wrong with you people?
Young scientists clapping and yahooing as another UAS is shot down, what happened to peace?.
You have SO many secret Naval, University, Think Tank, etc departments its incredible.....but the question is why?
People often ask on this forum, "Why does the World hates America?"........Well These weapons are some of the reasons, not to mention greed, secrecy, everything else that is bad.
You now know why the Russians and Chinese dont trust you.
The sooner the Military Machine, that is America is shut down, the Better.
(Disclaimer:The poster advises that the words and information represented here, are not his own, and are channelled from an Alien in the Horsehead Nebular, who wishes the people of the Earth good will and peace. The American Military is advised not to fire any of its secret laser or otherwise weapons in the direction of the poster...he is a mere human after all. This is Zebo of the Nebular, over and out).
Ohh where am I?????
Originally posted by ANNED
During Vietnam the US used a round short range howitzer round called dragon's breath during VC human wave attacks on fire bases.
Very effective in 105 and 155mm guns as the ball of bright white burning metal powder was the size of a foot ball field.
There were also gun crews in Vietnam that would load 155mm guns with 5 to 6 bags of powder soaked in diesel and a dry powder charge with no projectile. this would cause a orange muzzle flash the size of a football field.
At one fire base the VC were massing for a attack on the base and the gun crews fired one of these rounds just after dark. the next day a patrol went out to recon the area and found the VC had fled during the night giving up the attack.
These rounds fit the story and this type rounds are used mostly for psychological effectedit on 3-6-2012 by ANNED because: (no reason given)
"The device uses a technology known as dynamic pulse detonation (DPD). A short but intense laser pulse creates a ball of plasma and a second laser pulse generates a supersonic shockwave with the plasma to generate a bright flash and a loud bang."
Originally posted by Earthscum
reply to post by SoulVisions
You've shot one, yourself? Does it have much of a kick to it?
Originally posted by Hawking
This is one of those times you think "Wow, glad it's my side who's got that"
...Until they use it on us, that is
Originally posted by cheesy
Any one can tell me what Weapon is this ??????????????
Originally posted by jcarpenter
...... Every nightmare they visit on the middle east, every new form of torture and inhumanity they use overseas, will eventually be brought home to us.
We have monsters running our country. And they are making psychopaths out of our troops and police.


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Just as he promised in his 2016 State of the State Address, Governor Rick "Big Government" Snyder continues to expand the state bureaucracy by establishing more needless, redundant commissions. Snyder's latest creation, the Michigan PreK-12 Literacy Commission, will "provide policy recommendations and reports on the state's progress in becoming a national leader in literacy." Snyder issued Executive Order 2016-18 last week, creating the 13-member commission. In the coming days, Snyder will directly appoint a majority of its members, who will serve at his pleasure.
In March, Snyder created the curiously similar Governor's 21st Century Education Commission pursuant to Executive Order 2016-6. Of the 21 voting members on this commission, 16 are appointed directly by Snyder and serve at his pleasure. According to a press release issued by the Governor's office, the 21st Century Education Commission is "responsible for analyzing top performing education systems in the nation, identifying issues impacting Michigan's academic success, and recommending changes to restructure Michigan's education system." Wouldn't these "issues" include literacy?
It sounds like there will be a significant degree of overlap between the roles of the two commissions. And given the vague, broad, open-ended language of the executive orders, it is almost impossible to tell what the commissions will actually do.
What's more, consider this: The constitutionally established State Board of Education has plenary authority over the supervision and direction of K-12 public instruction throughout Michigan, and serves as the "planning and coordinating body for all public education, including higher education." This naturally includes reading and literacy programs, don't you think?
Why has Snyder been so eager to create these new commissions when there is already an existing constitutional body charged with performing the very same functions? The answer is really quite simple. As he has demonstrated with his past executive orders on a variety of matters (can you say State School Reform/Redesign Office?), Snyder is all too interested in stripping authority from the Department of Education, emasculating the Democratic-controlled State Board of Education, and consolidating power in his own hands.
How will the Michigan PreK-12 Literacy Commission differ from the Governor's 21st Century Education Commission? And how will the duties of these two commissions differ from the constitutionally enumerated powers and functions of the State Board of Education? I'd sure like to know. So far, however, no one from the Governor's office has bothered to answer these questions for me or anyone else.
Snyder loves to talk about streamlining state government. But his obsessive commission craze proves the premise of the old adage: Actions really do speak louder than words.


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The Election Of Blind Rage
I feel like I need a rabies shot after witnessing the blind rage shown by candidates and supporters alike during this election cycle. This campaign season was akin to watching a drunken father beat his wife while in front of his children and not having the ability to intervene to stop it. And I am not…Read More
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An old friend told me once: "A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words, A Song Is Worth A Million." So I spent my morning looking for images and music that best describe RVA's 2016 Mayoral race. After scouring the web, I kept coming back to various pictures of slow motion train wrecks…Read More
Jon Baliles-RVA Superhero-Drops Out: Jack & Levar, Which Of You Will Step Up?
Jon Baliles is an RVA superhero. Yes, you heard me. He just put on a weighty necklace of kryptonite and took one for the team. Why? Because that is what it is going to take to save RVA during this Mayoral election. This mere mortal just elevated to superhero stature in our book…Read More
Understanding Richmond's Cockroach Problem: Joe Morrissey
The past week has provided a Fall cornucopia of Jerry Springer-esque, TMZ-like, sideshow carnival programming featuring Joe Morrissey's sordid life. It has saturated Richmond's media. His political adversaries have speculated, more like hoped, that Joe would drop out as a result. But those wishful thinkers fail to understand one simple…Read More
The Dogtown Dish Mayoral Endorsement
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Meet Donald Moss-6th District City Council Poll Winner
Donald Moss has won the Dogtown Dish's 6th District City Council Poll in convincing fashion. In fact, he won two thirds of the votes. That's pretty impressive for a newcomer to the Richmond political scene. I recently sat down with Donald for coffee in order to get to know him. We had not met before, so this was…Read More
VOTE NOW: Ellen Robertson Or Donald Moss For City Council?
We are about to have an important election this year. Not only does Richmond elect a Mayor, but we elect a new City Council. With great success, we recently ran our Dogtown Dish Mayoral Poll. Now comes City Council…the 6th District specifically. And if you don't already know, THE 6TH DISTRICT IS MANCHESTER'S CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT! In one…Read More
Meet Levar Stoney: A Mayoral Contender
If you followed our Dogtown Dish Mayor's Poll, you already know Levar Stoney had a very strong showing. I recently sat down for coffee with him. Having not met Levar before, the meeting provided an opportunity for me to hear his story. Levar also agreed to answer a list of questions as a follow up to our meeting…Read More
City Council Rubber Stamps City's Half Million Dollar Giveaway
So Mayor Jones and City Council just gave away 14 tax delinquent, blighted properties it recently seized as reported by The Richmond Times-Dispatch. Break out the noisemakers and party balloons, right? Way to go City, fix those blighted properties!!! Well actually…this is just the latest example of another fraud scheme by the City that cost taxpayers over half a million…Read More
Meet Jack Berry: Dogtown Dish Mayor Poll Winner Weighs In On Manchester
I sat down with the hotly contested Dogtown Dish Mayor Poll winner-Jack Berry. This was my first meeting with Jack, as I had never met him before. I asked him a handful of questions. Some are about Manchester and others are about RVA in general. We are approaching a big decision for a new Mayor and we need…Read More
Manchester Neighborhood Plan Implementation Grade: F
The City of Richmond adopted a Neighborhood Plan for Old Manchester in 1996 as part of the City's Master Plan. The strategic plan was intended to be a blueprint for the City that would set forth the revitalization of Manchester, yet be flexible enough to allow adaptation as the area developed. The plan explicitly called for the City to take…Read More
City Shafts Taxpayers Again By Giving Away City Owned Property To Friends And Family
In other cities corrupt acts by elected officials and their staff is called graft, larceny, embezzlement, fraud, or cronyism. And these folks go to jail for this type of behavior. In Richmond however, the City bureaucracy has grown so emboldened they don't even blush anymore when committing the most egregious acts. It is considered standard operating procedure…Read More
Update: No Funding For Hull Street Revitalization, But Council Votes To Fund Traffic Calming
At Monday's marathon City Council meeting, City Council voted down the amendment that would have removed funding for the traffic calming project for Manchester (and all other sections of the City). They did not however, appropriate any funding for the Hull Street Revitalization project. This is two years in a row that the Hull Street…Read More
City Council Proposes To Eliminate Funding For Manchester Revitalization
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Hot Mess Hosts Weenie Roast Over Dumpster Fire
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Jack Berry: Winner Of Mayor Poll Resigns From Venture Richmond
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Richmond Mayor Poll Final Round: Jack Berry Vs. Levar Stoney
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Richmond Mayor Poll: Semifinal Round
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Are You Registered To Vote?
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Richmond Mayor Poll Round 2: Who Would You Vote For As The Next Mayor?
And then there were three…err, well make that five. Three candidates from the 1st Round of our Richmond Mayor Poll each collected 20%+ of the votes and have moved on to the 2nd Round: Levar Stoney, Jon Baliles, & Chris Hilbert. However, to spice things up for the 2nd Round, we are adding two wildcards…Read More
POLL: Would You Vote For Doug Wilder If He Ran For Mayor Again This November?
Former City of Richmond Mayor and Governor of Virginia, Douglas Wilder, ceased his silence and publicly admonished Mayor Dwight Jones in an opinion piece posted in The Richmond Times-Dispatch this past weekend entitled: "No more silence about the state of the city". Wilder voiced his frustration with the city's current state…Read More
Who Would You Vote For As Richmond's Next Mayor?
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Dwight: Have You Paid Your Taxes?
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