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F05 · July 2025

Earnest: the school became a proxy

Massachusetts settled allegations against student-loan lender Earnest for US$2.5 million. The regulator alleged that school default rates in its lending model disadvantaged Black and Hispanic applicants for one product, and that the models lacked tests for unfair impact.

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