Yesterday Lending Club filed a S-3ASR with the SEC which provides comprehensive and updated information on the business. For those who are...
In an interview on CNBC last week Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein shared some news about their consumer lending platform....
Lending Club has announced their second quarter earnings results; originations were up 10% sequentially to $2.15 billion; quarterly originations have been hovering around $1.9 billion since Q2 of last year; the second quarter also marked the second highest revenue generating quarter for the company; bank participation made up 44% of the funding for the quarter; Lending Club focused on developing testing infrastructure for borrower take rates which included a website redesign; guidance was adjusted upwards for the third quarter and the full year. Source
Hurricane Harvey has already had a tremendous impact on Texas. Part of the impact is the financial stress it has...
Today, Lending Club announced a new credit model in an email to investors. According to the email, this is the...
It is hard to believe it has been 10 years since Lending Club started operations. Lending Club launched a marketing campaign...
Lending Club’s second quarter earnings marked an important milestone for the company – a return to growth. It seemed as...
Consumer lenders Lending Club and Prosper are reporting growth in originations; for the second quarter Lending Club loan originations reached $2.1473 billion, increasing 10% from the previous quarter and the second quarter of 2016; Prosper originated $774.7 million worth of loans in the second quarter of 2017, an increase from $586 million in Q1 and $445 million in the second quarter of 2016; both companies had high Q1 2016 originations which has kept first half 2017 totals down in comparison to 2016. Source
Both Lending Club and Prosper have announced several programs to help borrowers affected by Hurricane Harvey; Lend Academy shares an email to Lending Club investors which states approximately 30,000 live in the affected areas; Lending Club has made changes around collections calls, late fees, credit bureau reporting and hardship plans; Prosper has taken similar actions by waiving late and NSF fees as well as adjusting payment schedules. Source
The recent PeerIQ weekly newsletter discusses the departure of Mike Cagney from SoFi, the Goldman & Mosaic deal and provides an analysis of recent SoFi (SCLP 2017-5) and Lending Club (CLUB 2017-P1) securitizations. Source