Sesame Credit

For the American credit score service, see Credit Sesame.
For the proposed Chinese government social rating system, see Social Credit System.

Sesame Credit is a credit scoring system being constructed by Ant Financial Services Group, an affiliate of the Chinese Alibaba Group. It uses data from Alibaba's services to compile its score.[1][2]

Baihe.com, a Chinese matchmaking company, uses Sesame Credit data as part of its service.[2]

Sesame Credit has denied rumors that their rating includes data gathered from social media activity.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Shu, Catherine. "Data From Alibaba’s E-Commerce Sites Is Now Powering A Credit-Scoring Service". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2015-12-22.
  2. 1 2 3 Hatton, Celia. "China 'social credit': Beijing sets up huge system". BBC News. Retrieved 2015-12-23.

See also

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