SHANGHAI: The financial services affiliate of Alibaba launched a system that will use the e-commerce giant's data trove to assess the creditworthiness of Chinese consumers and businesses with little or no history at traditional lenders.
The credit-scoring system, Sesame Credit, will mine user data as well as payment histories from Alibaba Group Holding's various platforms, Ant Financial Services Group in a statement.
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