OnDeck has made many changes to the business over the last several quarters. With their latest financial results released today, the...
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Citigroup will provide funding for mortgages which will eventually be securitized and sold; the terms of the deal were not disclosed; LendInvest has continued to grow loan volumes with 2017 volume at 500 million pounds. Source
loanDepot is the second largest non-bank consumer lender; OfferPad purchases homes from homeowners, allowing them to sell their house easily; the JV called OfferPad Home Loans is a stand-alone mortgage broker where loanDepot will act as the wholesale lender; OfferPad will be using loanDepot’s platform called Mello to provide the bridge financing. Source
HSBC intends to launch a new product in 2018 to address problems they see in the automated investment market; the new product is dubbed robo-advising 2.0 by Dean Butler, HSBC’s head of retail wealth; it will provide holistic financial advice and will eventually include recommendations for other products such as pensions and insurance. Source
There have been a number of new funding deals closed in recent weeks and CB Insights reported that 278 fintech financing deals were done in the third quarter; Lend Academy provides the interesting mix of companies that have raised debt and equity capital. Source
Peter Renton, Founder of Lend Academy reports on the potential of Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple being the fintech leaders of tomorrow. Source
According to data from TransUnion, financial technology groups originated $15 billion of personal loans in the first half of 2017; this represents nearly a third of the total US market for new personal loans; John Wirth, vice-president of fintech strategy at TransUnions stated, "fintech business model appears to be working nicely. Their use of the latest technology . . . has likely helped them become leaders."; Source
Orange is a large French telecom company and recently announced plans to launch their own bank; the company is hoping to capitalize on the movement to online banking and is the first telecom company to launch a bank; they are targeting 2 million clients in ten years which would represent 25% of the online banking market; 25,000 of their current customers have expressed interest in the new offering (out of its 21 million mobile clients). Source
Financial Times highlights TransferWise and Funding Circle who are growing their market share in the UK; Transferwise has collected $280 million from investors and Funding Circle has surpassed high-street banks in net new lending; Funding Circle lent £114 million in the three months to September; Samir Desai, co-founder and chief executive of Funding Circle stated, "If I was a big bank, I would be really worried about this..." Source