The private label credit card issuer Alliance Data Systems found itself in a precarious position last year with its high level of exposure to the apparel industry, which saw the sharpest sales declines of all retail categories in the first phase of the pandemic. But when retail partners Forever 21 …

WEST READING, PA. & SAN MATEO, Calif .– (BUSINESS WIRE) – Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST), a leading artificial intelligence (AI) lending platform, today announced that Customers Bank, a full-service super-community bank and a subsidiary of Customers Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE: CUBI), is expanding and expanding its banking partnership with Upstart to expand …