Orchard’s Weekly Online Lending Snapshot

In Orchard’s January 6 Weekly Snapshot it notes the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s actions against Equifax and TransUnion and its new updates to the Orchard Lendscape; data on publicly traded online lenders shows OnDeck with a monthly gain of 11.21% and Square continuing to report gains with a monthly return of 9.72%; in UK listed funds the VPC Specialty Lending Fund led gains with a monthly return of 10.07% followed by P2P Global Investments with a monthly gain of 8.84%; in the US the River North Marketplace Lending Fund reported a monthly return of -0.94%.  Source