The securitization portfolio will include private consumer loans from the SoFi platform; associated parties on the deal include PwC, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Deutsche Bank Securities, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, J.P. Morgan Securities LLC and Mizuho Securities USA LLC; according to Finsight, the securitization is SoFi's ninth this year with the last being a $500 million transaction that took place in June. Source
PeerIQ has released their latest marketplace lending securitization report for the third quarter. Total issuance for the quarter was $2.6...
Once seen as a niche segment of finance online lenders are now originating billions in loans each year; the bigger they get the questions start to arise if they can handle an economic downturn and are their underwriting models good enough; American Banker digs into the overall industry by looking at securitization growth, whether or not traditional banking is dead and more. Source.
CommonBond closed their fifth and largest securitization which contained $248 million of refinanced student loans; the senior tranches were rated by Moody’s, S&P and DBRS and received ratings of Aa2, AA and AA (high) respectively; the deal was four times oversubscribed; according to David Klein, CommonBond CEO and co-founder, “Investor demand for CommonBond paper has never been greater. The strong market reception is a reflection of our pristine credit quality, continued ratings progression, and track record of consistent results. As a programmatic issuer, we look forward to continuing to bring consistently high performing bonds to the market, providing investors with world-class capital deployment options.” Source
The Senior Managing Director at Kroll Bond Rating Agency discusses trends in marketplace lending securitization. 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
PeerIQ released their third quarter marketplace lending securitization report; total issuance for the quarter was $2.6 billion down from $3 billion in the last quarter; SoFi closed two consumer deals and one student deal; Lending Club and Prosper both issued one deal; College Avenue issued their first ever student loan securitization. Source
The latest securitization of Zopa loans priced tighter than last year’s; it was led by P2PGI and arranged by Deutsche Bank; the senior tranche was rated AA by Moody’s; Jaidev Janardana, Zopa’s CEO stated, “This is a further demonstration of investor and market confidence in our origination and underwriting capabilities. Our ability to originate high quality loans continues to make the Zopa investment asset a distinctive and attractive one to retail and institutional investors alike.” Source
On Friday of last week, LendingClub announced that it closed a new kind of transaction. It was a whole loan...
Micro-lenders in China have brought billions of packaged consumer loans to institutional investors in China; the market this year though may slow due to regulatory scrutiny according industry sources; the current leaders in this space include Ant Financial Services Group as well as groups within JD.com, Baidu, VIPShop Holdings and Xiaomi Technology. Source