Peter Renton of Lend Academy shares his quarterly marketplace lending results for the third quarter; portfolio includes twelve accounts with investments in Lending Club, Prosper, Direct Lending Income Fund, Lend Academy P2P Fund, P2Pinvestor and PeerStreet; Q3 reported another quarter of lower returns; third quarter trailing twelve month return was 8.21%, a decrease from 8.72% in the second quarter and the sixth consecutive quarter of lower portfolio return. Source
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The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee discussed concerns over consumer credit defaults in its recently released minutes; credit card, bank loan and car loan borrowing has increased and the Bank is also concerned about prolonged interest free offers and eased underwriting standards; stress testing has revealed potential losses for banks of 18.5 billion British pounds ($23 billion) on their consumer credit loans and 11.8 billion British pounds ($15 billion) on their mortgage loans; as the Bank monitors consumer lending, it is likely new constraints will be required to manage risks in the new economic environment. Source
A new report by Dutch bank ING says 69 percent of consumers...
CME Group announced today that they plan to offer bitcoin futures by the end of the year which is a change from what they said just a month ago; others like Cboe Global Markets said earlier in the year it plans to do the same by early 2018; the move by exchanges will open up the bitcoin market to professional traders and institutional investors. Source
After launching 4 years ago two of China’s online banks, MYBank and...
The new entity will work with businesses in a variety of ways; under “catalysts” internal consultants will help with problem solving and will include the eXellerator innovation lab; “Investments” will include their minority investments in a variety of companies; they have previously invested in Ripple and Paxata; “Ventures” will focus on their investments in new technology. Source
China is reporting 478,000 individual cases of complaints with problematic P2P lending firms; accounts for approximately 4.5% of the investors in P2P; the report coincides with the country's fraudulent P2P lending activity; 1,300 platforms were named problematic in 2016 with 2,388 platforms in good standing. Source