Lend Academy reviews LendingClub's Investor Day and shares the most interesting developments including a new “Exchange Traded Partnership”, details on direct payoff loans and new features of their auto finance product. Source
YieldStreet Co-Founder and CEO Milind Mehere knew what is was like to be shut out of investment opportunities; after successfully scaling and selling his previous business he started YieldStreet to provide real estate, litigation funding and more to a wider group of investors; the company has returned over $80mn of principal and interest to investors; seeing litigation funding as one of the more interesting parts of the portfolio is an opportunity they feel is unique and can help to set the company apart. Source.
There is a growing trend in fintech that shows where the most disruption is happening, financial advice and management; while...
While the Federal Reserve has said they will pour virtually unlimited amounts of capital into the mortgage-backed securities market there...
Customers of Citizens Financial Group were not able to access only or mobile banking in what the bank said was...
The Fundrise Income eREIT previously sold out and was closed to new investors; the platform has re-opened the Income eREIT and requires minimum investment of $1,000; the Income eREIT is focused on investments in real estate debt and has posted a 10.5% annualized dividend yield. Source
Lend Academy provides more details on defaults triggering a breach in a SoFi securitization portfolio; the portfolio reporting the defaults was SoFi's first securitization of unsecured consumer loans, the SoFi Consumer Loan Program 2015-1 LLC; given the terms of the deal and the overall characteristics, the breach does not seem to have broad market indications; the deal arrangers set the trigger level at 3% which is a relatively low rate and the cumulative net loss is only reported to be marginally above the trigger; a chart from PeerIQ also provides more details on the cumulative net loss rates for SoFi. Source
deBanked reports that Wold Business Lenders (WBL) has purchased several assets from Bizfi including the brand, marketplace, the Next Level Funding renewal book and other pieces of the company; WBL, a small business lender will lend on the platform; Stephen Sheinbaum, founder of Biz joined WBL as a managing director in July; several other Bizfi staff have joined WBL. Source
SoFi has announced the addition of Mike Bingle, Steven Freiberg, and Robert Joss to its board of directors; Bingle is a managing partner and managing director at Silver Lake, the company which recently partnered with SoFi for a $500 million funding round; Freiberg is joining the board after previously servicing as the CEO of E*TRADE Financial Corporation; Joss is currently a professor at Stanford and previously worked at Westpac Banking Corporation and Wells Fargo; Mike Cagney says the experience from the new board members will be helpful in supporting the firm's product and geographic expansions. Source
Orchard's Weekly Online Lending Snapshot for the week of October 27 focuses on new marketplace lending securitizations and the snapshot's new tracking for recent securitization issuances; other key data points from the week include Yirendai leading publicly-traded marketplace lenders with a monthly stock gain of 12.52% and the UK Ranger Direct Lending Fund continuing to lead among UK listed funds with a monthly gain of 6.46%. Source