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·Sep. 5, 2017

Passive Investing in P2P Lending

Source reports on increased passive investment in UK P2P lending; notes Funding Circle's removal of manual loan investing and a greater number of platforms offering "black box" investing; IFISAs are supporting this trend as well as UK platforms offering the accounts with diversified loan investments. Source

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News Roundup Online Lending USA

·Jan. 30, 2017

ABA Seeking Marketplace Lending Partner

According to Reuters, the American Bankers Association (ABA) is soliciting a marketplace lending partner; the Association acts as a consultant for small banks with less than $250 million in assets and the partnership would help the ABA in its vendor consulting efforts for these small banks; small banks are one subset of the market that has expressed significant interest in online lending and online lending partnerships. Source

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Europe News Roundup Online Lending

·Mar. 2, 2017

4finance Reports 2016 Net Profit of 63.2mn Euros

Online lender 4finance has reported its earnings for 2016 with an increase in revenue and net income; revenue increased 24% in 2016 to 393.2 million euros ($413.35 million); it reported another year of net profit with net income increasing to 63.2 million euros ($66.4 million), up from 58.2 million euros ($61.2 million) in 2015; in 2016 the company's net loan portfolio was 493.9 million euros ($519.21 million) and the average interest rate on its loans was 120%. Source

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News Roundup Online Lending USA

·Mar. 15, 2017

Small Business Optimism Down in February

The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) has released data for its February Small Business Optimism Index; the Index shows a decrease to 105.3 from 105.9; the NFIB says that the reading is still one of the highest in 43 years; the lower report for February is primarily due to uncertainty around President Trump's deregulation plans, new healthcare law and tax reform. Source

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News Roundup Online Lending USA

·Dec. 9, 2016

OnDeck Announces New Funding from Credit Suisse

OnDeck has obtained a $200 million revolving credit facility from Credit Suisse; $125 million of the funding will be available while the remaining $75 million will be provided at the lender's discretion; loans will be made to Prime OnDeck Receivable Trust II, LLC (Port II), financing Port II's purchase of OnDeck loans for collateral; firm says it will use a portion of the funds to prepay its $100 million Prime OnDeck Receivable Trust, LLC facility. Source

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LatAm

·Sep. 6, 2022

With Belvo investment, U.S. Citi sets foot in LatAm open banking scene

Last month, Citi Ventures, the U.S. bank's VC unit, announced an undisclosed investment in Belvo, a Mexican open banking infrastructure firm.

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News Roundup Online Lending USA

·Mar. 6, 2017

Clarity Services Announces Temporary Account Record for Mitigating Online Loan Stacking

Online lending alternative credit data solutions provider Clarity Services has announced the release of Temporary Account Record, a solution for mitigating loan stacking; primarily focused on providing alternative credit data for the online lending market, the firm also began developing Temporary Account Record in 2013 to address the issue of loan stacking fraud; Temporary Account Record will complement the firm's data services by providing increased transparency on current loans and pending loan transactions. Source

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Europe News Roundup Online Lending

·Mar. 10, 2017

Zopa Creates Waiting List for New Investors

The marketplace lending industry's first peer-to-peer lender has created a waiting list for new investors and is currently only accepting funds from existing investors; the investor waiting list began on March 9 and follows the previous halting of new money from all investors on its platform in December; the waiting list is another effort to keep processing times down; demand for loans on the platform was higher in February as more investors identified the loan investments for their high yields among other regional alternatives; Zopa has reported plans for expansion to secured car loans and is also continuing with its plans for launching a digital bank. Source

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News Roundup Online Lending

·Apr. 14, 2017

Building Sustainable Distribution: Bringing Offline Lending Online

Providing credit to the underserved is something a lot of companies attempt to achieve; 138 million people in the US need access to credit and most of these individuals are concentrated in nine states; when it comes to credit there isn't a lot of options for non prime consumers; at LendIt USA 2017 James Gutierrez of Insikt discussed expanding access to credit where the consumer gets a personal touch to their experience; at his previous firm James offered face to face loans in Latino supermarkets to the underbanked; his experience there allowed him to bring that personal interaction to a digital platform without losing the intimate feel; Insikt is able to scale in a quicker fashion but still provide credit where the consumer knows they are getting an option that suits their needs. Source

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News Roundup Online Lending

·Feb. 27, 2017

PeerIQ’s Weekly Industry Update

PeerIQ's Weekly Industry Update notes this week's SFIG Vegas 2017 conference on structured finance; PeerIQ's Ram Ahluwalia will be moderating a panel titled, "The Outlook for Securitization and Marketplace Lending"; on February 26, PeerIQ also released an industry white paper titled, "Data Standards and Best Practices" which details industry standardization of data and discusses the importance of data transparency; at the SFIG 2017 event on Monday the firm announced a new data partnership with 1010data. Source

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