Financial institutions are becoming more involved with fintechs as the new entrants show advantages in speed, agility and emerging innovation; CoinTelegraph reports on the industry integration, noting examples from Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and HSBC; discusses the benefits for financial institutions from working with fintechs and the capital support needed by fintech startups which is making the two groups interdependent. Source
Lending Club's CIO, Siddhartha Jajodia, sent a letter to investors on October 14 alerting them of an increase in interest rates; Lending Club says it will increase loan rates by a weighted average of 26 bps with rate changes mostly concentrated in the lower credit quality loan grades; the rate increase follows a previous weighted average interest rate increase of 135 basis points from November 2015 to June 2016; the rate increase is consistent with a lower credit quality trend observed from the platform’s borrowers as well as a higher trending rate environment in the US; additionally the firm also reported changes to credit policy standards and improvements to its collections efforts.
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