Back in April at LendIt USA 2016, Lending Club teased that they would be announcing a new consumer lending product...
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Bitcoin Software Addition 'SegWit' Could Make Digital Currency Faster The Bitcoin community is ready to roll out an enhancement to the digital currency's code base; SegWit (which stands for "Segregated Witness") separates the encrypting of the transaction information from the currency miner's validation signature; currency miners need extensive computing resources and time to prove that a transaction is true and valid, therefore this step has traditionally slowed down the recording of transactions; done with testing, the new SegWit feature could be released as soon as November 15th; it is considered officially adopted once 95% of the Bitcoin software community deploys the code; this could take as little as a month or two, or significantly longer.
OnDeck has partnered with institutional data consultant, Orchard, to provide data reporting for institutional investors on its platform; OnDeck is a small business lender with significant investment from institutional investors; through the partnership Orchard will manage the loan reporting for OnDeck's institutional investors and provide investors with access to investor dashboards, portfolio benchmarking, automated daily holdings reports and a variety of customized reporting options held within the Orchard for Originators data system. Source
Lending Club's CIO, Siddhartha Jajodia, sent a letter to investors on October 14 alerting them of an increase in interest rates; Lending Club says it will increase loan rates by a weighted average of 26 bps with rate changes mostly concentrated in the lower credit quality loan grades; the rate increase follows a previous weighted average interest rate increase of 135 basis points from November 2015 to June 2016; the rate increase is consistent with a lower credit quality trend observed from the platform’s borrowers as well as a higher trending rate environment in the US; additionally the firm also reported changes to credit policy standards and improvements to its collections efforts.
Last week, LendingRobot announced “LendingRobot for Advisors” to bring investing in Lending Club to a broader audience. They have partnered...
AirFinance has helped to expand marketplace lending capabilities in the aviation finance market through a recent launch of FlyFunder: a closed-network connecting financiers, investors, used aircraft brokers and aircraft developers.
Leading marketplace lending platform, Prosper, has launched Credit Card Optimizer; the Credit Card Optimizer is an enhancement to the firm’s Prosper Daily app which was introduced in March 2016 as an aggregator for financial accounts; the Credit Card Optimizer will provide users with their credit card balances and payment notifications; also seeks to provide advice on credit card usage and includes features for managing credit cards by interest bearing balances. Source
UK mortgage loan marketplace platform, LendInvest, has released its 2016 earnings; originations on the platform increased 84% to £320 million for the year ending March 2016; company grew revenue 133% to £32 million with a profit of £3.4 million; leads most of its competitors who have been consistently reporting losses. Source
According to the Liberum AltFi Volume Index, September 2016 originations for online lenders hit £364m in the UK. September was...
Non-bank lender Pemberton Asset Management sees a big opportunity in business lending with the uncertainty surrounding Brexit; Pemberton is confident that European banks will pull back as a result of Brexit and slow their lending practices; the sizable raise also points to the confidence in private debt funds as an option for companies unable to get financing from the banks.