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Orchard stresses the importance of recovery rates in valuing pools of loans; blog post takes Orchard’s US unsecured consumer lending industry data and discusses what loan recoveries are, how they are calculated, how debt holders recover defaulted loan balances, and why recovery rates are so important. Source
Karen Webster of PYMNTS.com writes that Facebook’s new global crypto-based payments system,...
I was tooling around on Eric’s Credit Community last week when I...
The article aims to answer whether big banks are still interested enough in potential mortgage loan customers to repeatedly follow-up and whether marketshare has anything to do with follow-ups; author applied for home loans with nine different lenders and shares data on their follow-ups over a two week period; Quicken, Citigroup and loanDepot round out the top three for total number of follow-ups. Source
P2P ISAs launched one year ago and have now been introduced by eight P2P platforms; industry participants are slightly disappointed by the offerings which have not gained significant traction; the slow start appears to be a factor of the platforms authorized, with the largest P2P platforms still awaiting authorization; it seems the lack of authorization for the region's largest platforms is delaying interest in the investment accounts from both individual investors and financial advisers. Source
The Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance releases an annual report on the...
This Seeking Alpha article looks at publicly traded Chinese fintech companies; there...
The China market is bigger than the US and they tend to move much faster; Emmanuel Daniel of The Asian Banker compares China today to 1971-1984 in the US when regulation was just beginning to be put in place; Credit China is an example of a successful P2P lender in China, now valued at $3 billion; Yew Kiat Phang speaks about the company, sharing how they initially were a traditional lender, constrained by capital and customers with single revenue streams; the company took a broad approach to fintech, first obtaining a third party payment license; company reported $12 billion in 2016 on their P2P lending platform; their payment gateway saw $30 billion in flow for 2016; Yew Kiat Phang shares other details on the company in the video. Source
Andreessen Horowitz is looking to raise $450mn for their second cryptocurrency fund...