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News RoundupOnline Lending
·Jan. 27, 2017

Lend Academy Article: LendingRobot Digital Wealth Platform Rolls Out a New Alternative Lending Hedge Fund

LendingRobot has announced the launch of a new alternative lending hedge fund; Lend Academy provides details in their article; the new fund will add to the service offerings at LendingRobot which currently include aggregated marketplace lending investment accounts for both retail investors and financial advisors; the new LendingRobot Series fund will invest in online loan origination platforms and offer multiple strategies for investors with expected net returns ranging from 6.86% to 9.66%; the fund is only open to accredited investors and requires a minimum investment of $100,000; it has a 1% management fee with fund expenses of up to 0.59%.  Source

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News RoundupOnline Lending
·Jan. 27, 2017

Financial Advisors Are Still Hesitant to Recommend P2P

Savings rates are low and markets have always been volatile, P2P platforms in the UK have consistently returned 4.5% to 6.5% according to the AltFi Data returns index and so the question remains why aren't financial advisors recommending the P2P asset class; there has been some movement on this front as firms like LendingWell and Octopus offer solutions to better help P2P firms become more attractive to financial advisors; obstacles remain as many financial advisors do not know much about P2P platforms and it will take time for this asset class to be more widely known to the broader advisor.  Source

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News RoundupOnline Lending
·Jan. 27, 2017

Orchard’s White Paper on Online Lending Data Standardization

Orchard has released a comprehensive report analyzing platform data attributes across the marketplace lending industry; the white paper is titled, "Making Loan Data Actionable"; provides insight on varying data management strategies across the industry and explores an accounting standard for alternative marketplace loans; Orchard has taken the lead on marketplace lending data standardization due to its association with the majority of the industry's lending network.  Source

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News RoundupOnline LendingUSA
·Jan. 27, 2017

PayPal Is Shifting from a Balance Sheet to a Hybrid Model

EuropeNews RoundupOnline Lending
·Jan. 27, 2017

Insurance Company Aegon to Invest 1.5bn Euros in Auxmoney Loans

Aegon has announced it will allocate 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) of its investment portfolio to Auxmoney P2P loans; the platform offers average returns of 5.5%; the investment represents one of the market's largest institutional endorsements in P2P loans; Aegon is also involved in a 15 million euro ($16.03 million) Series E funding round for Auxmoney.  Source

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News RoundupOnline LendingUSA
·Jan. 30, 2017

Climb Credit Expanding the Student Loan Credit Underwriting Model

Climb Credit is integrating earnings potential into its credit underwriting models for student loans; firm offers student loans for individuals and through partnerships with educational institutions; its credit underwriting process for a student loan includes multi-factor data on the earnings potential of the loan's borrower in addition to the individual borrower's credit score.  Source

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News RoundupOnline Lending
·Jan. 30, 2017

Some Lessons from 2016: The Importance of Risk Management, Data Quality, and Liquidity

Orchard provides some marketplace lending observations and lessons from 2016 in their featured blog post; cites comprehensively integrated risk management controls as essential; notes data quality as an important factor for investors; also says developing solutions for increased investor liquidity will be an increasingly important factor for investors as the industry evolves. Sponsored Blog Post

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EuropeNews RoundupOnline Lending
·Jan. 30, 2017

Zopa Reaches 2bn British Pound Lending Milestone

Zopa, the industry's first P2P lender, has reached a new milestone, originating over 2 billion British pounds ($2.5 billion) in loans since 2005; according to Zopa the firm has originated 300,000 loans from 246,000 borrowers and has 75,000 investors; in the UK, Funding Circle is also close to reaching the 2 billion British pound mark with cumulative loan originations of 1.92 billion British pounds ($2.40 billion) since its launch in 2010.  Source

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News RoundupOnline LendingUSA
·Jan. 30, 2017

SoFi’s New Securitization

PeerIQ analyzes SoFi's new securitization, SCLP 2017-1; SoFi's unsecured consumer loans securitization portfolio was priced on January 20; the securitization was oversubscribed resulting in final collateralized loans of $655 million; the securitization is now the industry's largest securitization portfolio issuance; it included two rated tranches from DBRS and Kroll; tranche A included loans valued at $504 million with an A rating from both DBRS and Kroll; tranche B included loans valued at $60 million with a BBB rating from both DBRS and Kroll.  Source

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News RoundupOnline LendingUSA
·Jan. 30, 2017

How One Regional Bank Built a Platform to Compete with Online Lenders

Boston-based Eastern Bank hired a former Capital One executive, Dan O'Malley, to help the bank learn how it can compete with the growing online lending industry; through his research Dan learned that 5% of Eastern's business customers used an online lender and the primary reason for this was quick access to capital; Eastern now has a competing product to offer small business customers and has even begun to license out their technology to fellow banks; Eastern believes their credit scorecard will allow for banks to utilize their new technology more than they would with an online lender because of their adherence to banking regulations.  Source

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