United States

LendingClub profit beats estimates on record loan originations (Reuters), Rated: AAA

Online lender LendingClub Corp (LC.N) reported an adjusted third-quarter profit that edged past analysts’ estimates and raised its full-year earnings forecast on Tuesday, helped by record loan originations and higher transaction fees.

The company said it now expects 2018 adjusted earnings of between $89 million and $94 million, up from a previous range of $75 million to $90 million.

Roundup of Q3 2018 Earnings: GreenSky, OnDeck, LendingClub (Lend Academy), Rated: AAA

OnDeck posted gross revenues of $103 million, up 8% from the previous quarter and 23% from the prior year period. OnDeck is benefiting from higher interest income due to rate increases as well as their origination growth while being able to decrease funding costs. Effective interest yield was 36.5%, up from 33.1% last year.

Net income came in at $9.8 million for the quarter, up from a loss of $4.1 million from the prior year period.

• Gross revenue of $392 million to $396 million, up from $380 million to $386 million,
• Net income of $20 million to $24 million, up from $10 to $16 million, and
• Adjusted Net income of $40 million to $44 million, up from $30 million to $36 million.

GreenSky

GreenSky reported record transaction volume in the third quarter of $1.4 billion, up 33% year over year. Revenue increased 29% to $113.9 million year over year. GAAP net income was $45.7 million.

LendingClub

Net revenues were $184.6 million, up 20% from the prior year period and originations were $2.9 billion, up 18% from last year. Applications also reached their highest levels, up 30% year over year.

In Q3 2018 GAAP Consolidated Net Loss was $22.7 million, or $7.3 million if you exclude $15.5 million of expenses related to outstanding legacy issues.

Total loans issued by the company now stands at over $40 billion.

• Net Revenue in the range of $688 million to $698 million.
• GAAP Consolidated Net Loss in the range of $129 million to $124 million, reflecting expenses related to outstanding legacy issues through the third quarter partly offset by higher Adjusted EBITDA guidance.
• Adjusted EBITDA in the range of $89 million to $94 million.

LendingTree Mortgage Offers Report – October 2018 (Lending Tree), Rated: AAA

October’s best mortgage offers for borrowers with the best profiles (the 95th percentile of borrowers) had an average APR of 4.61% for conforming 30-year fixed-rate purchase loans, up from 4.39% in September. The APR on refinance loan offers increased 22 basis points (bps), to 4.62%.

For the average borrower, the purchase APR for conforming 30-year fixed-rate loans offered on LendingTree’s platform was 5.27%, up 18 bps from September. The loan note rate of 5.14% is the highest rate of the year.

Consumers with the highest credit scores (760-plus, representing the 65th percentile of borrowers) received an average APR of 5.12%, versus 5.42% for consumers with scores of 680 to 719. The APR spread of 30 bps between these score ranges is the same as it was in September. For the average purchase loan amount of $233,938, the spread represents over $15,000 in additional costs for borrowers with lower credit scores over 30 years.

For the average borrower, the APR for conforming 30-year fixed-rate refinance loans increased 17 bps from September to 5.26%. The spread between credit score brackets (760-plus and 680 to 719) remained the same as last month, at 24 bps. That amounts to nearly $13,000 in extra costs over the life of the loan for borrowers with lower credit scores, given an average refinance loan of $238,447.

Average proposed purchase down payments fell to $60,361, a decline of about $3,600.

LendingTree Study Finds Millennials in the South Owe the Most on Their Cars (Benzinga), Rated: A

LendingTree today released its study on where millennials owe the most on their cars.

Key findings

• Even car loans are bigger in Texas. Metros in the Lone Star State dominate the top of the list: McAllen, Houston, El Paso and San Antonio have the highest median auto loan balances for millennials at $23,704, $20,925, $20,544 and $20,521 respectively.
• Car capital of the world has the lowest auto debt. Ironically, Motor City has the lowest levels of millennial auto debt on our list with a median debt of $10,841 as well as the lowest average debt of $14,573.
• Great Lakes area metros shine with the least auto debt. After Detroit, millennials in Rochester, N.Y., Grand Rapids, Toledo, Ohio, and Cleveland carry the lowest median auto debts, at $12,165, $12,429, $12,678 and $12,717 respectively.
• New York and Ogden, Utah. These metros are on opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to carrying any auto debt at all — New York has the lowest percentage of millennials with auto debt at 41.5 percent while Ogden, Utah has the highest percentage of millennials with auto debt (64.5 percent).

Outside Financial Brings Much-Needed Transparency to Auto Lending (Digital Journal), Rated: A

To prevent the average consumer from being charged more than $1700 in hidden markups on auto loan packages, Outside Financials opens an independent loan marketplace to facilitate transparency in auto lending and auto refinance.

Fighting financial crime without excluding the underbanked (American Banker), Rated: A

Eugene Ludwig, founder and chief executive officer of IBM’s Promontory Financial Group, said artificial intelligence — already employed to help identify potential anti-money-laundering activity — is getting smarter, and can now be used to identify vulnerable groups of people who have been incorrectly labeled as high risk.

Nerdwallet Wants To Make Comparison Shopping For Financial Services Simple (Forbes), Rated: A

For example, Nerdwallet personal loan product page sorted loans by interest rates.

“All our consumers hated it. They wanted it sorted by monthly payments, which seems odd until you put yourself in their shoes and see what is going on month by month,” Chen said. “We have to meet them where they are. If you start by wagging your finger, that’s a good way to get them to hit the back button on their browser.”

Nerdwallet has three million members and more than 100 million visits each year, Chen said.

InfoSec Governance, Risk, and Compliance Manager (LinkedIn), Rated: B

SoFi is seeking an experienced InfoSec Manager to assist in all aspects of our governance, risk and compliance program.

NRL Mortgage Selects The Riivos Mortgage Lending Application (PR Newswire), Rated: B

Riivos Mortgage, a division of Riivos, Inc., the provider of cloud-based continuous value chain management technology, today announced that NRL Mortgage, an originator serving customers coast to coast, is using the Riivos Mortgage Lending forecasting, planning and reporting application to help them analyze and capitalize on growth opportunities. NRL Mortgage is majority owned by St. Christopher’s Holdings LLC, a privately-owned holding company based in Houston, Texas.

Judge suspends compliance deadline for CFPB payday rule (American Banker), Rated: B

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel on Tuesday reversed a previous order from June and granted, in part, the request by acting CFPB Director Mick Mulvaney and two industry trade groups to delay the payday rule’s August 2019 compliance date. They sought a delay to prevent lenders from having to comply with the old rule before the revisions are finalized.

United Kingdom

Zopa, the UK P2P lending company, closes £60M round on path to launching a bank (TechCrunch), Rated: AAA

Obtaining a banking license and then launching an actual new retail bank requires capital. A lot of capital. Enter Zopa, the U.K. peer-to-peer lending company that wants to become a bank, which today is announcing that it has closed £60 million in further funding. Only £16 million is actually new new money, having already disclosed £44 million in August, so this is effectively an extension of that earlier fund-raise.

Landbay reaches £200m lending landmark (P2P Finance News), Rated: AAA

LANDBAY has hailed its quality service and strong broker relationships as it reached the £200m lending milestone this week.

The peer-to-peer property platform, which purely focuses on buy-to-let mortgages (BTL), said it had reached the landmark with a track record of zero defaults.

JAJA SMASHES CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN AS IT READIES CREDIT CARD LAUNCH (Fintech Finance), Rated: A

Jaja Finance, the company on a mission to simplify the world of consumer finance, announces that it has already reached its fundraising target of £3m on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs. The company will use the funds to expand its team and launch its digital credit card, Jaja.

China

Chinese tech CEO predicts ‘exponential’ growth in financial technology (CNBC), Rated: A

European Union

N26 Expansion: German Challenger Bank Brings Services to Denmark, Norway, Poland, & Sweden (Crowdfund Insider), Rated: AAA

Germany-based challenger bank N26 is bringing its services to Denmark, Norway, Poland, and Sweden.

“N26 passes on these cost benefits to its customers. N26 partners with the most innovative fintech and traditional financial companies to offer its customers best-in-class products such as TransferWise (foreign exchange), Raisin (savings), Clark and Allianz (insurance), auxmoney (credit) and others.”

International

Banks complete first syndicated loan on blockchain (BBVA), Rated: AAA

BBVA and Red Electrica Corporation have become the first businesses in the world to deliver a syndicated loan using blockchain. The €150m deal, granted by BBVA, BNP Paribas and MUFG, was reached in record speed using BBVA’s proprietary platform- which is powered by distributed ledger technology.

Research reveals three tech strategies that will benefit small and midsized financial institutions (Finastra), Rated: B

A new piece of research, sponsored by Finastraand executed by Mercator Advisory Group, shows that small and midsized financial institutions can derive significant benefits to operational efficiency by pursuing three distinct cost-saving strategies: vendor consolidation, cloud delivery, and artificial intelligence. Based on in-depth interviews with C-level representatives of community banks and credit unions with asset size between $200 million and $5 billion, the research gauges attitudes toward and levels of adoption for each strategy.

• Consolidation of vendors ultimately eliminates the need to maintain and manage multiple systems, and can improve operational efficiency by 20-30%.ⁱ
• Cloud delivery brings numerous benefits including the ability to easily scale system capacity to meet demand.
• Artificial intelligence (AI), which is the least adopted of the three strategies to date, promises to make processes smarter, faster and more personalized to the consumer. However, in order to reap these rewards, banks must prioritize their vendor consolidation and cloud delivery road maps.

The white paper, titled Landmark Decisioning: Using Vendor Consolidation, Cloud Computing, and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Operational Efficiency, is available here.

Persona and FintruX announce renewed control over personal data (Leaprate), Rated: B

Persona, the blockchain-based solution for identity management,has just announced its partnership with FintruX, the P2P lending ecosystem, to streamline the onboarding process for customers while ensuring they remain in full control over their personal details.

Persona is the first identity management solution developing its own blockchain, as opposed to other projects being developed as ERC20 tokens over Ethereum.

Asia

Funding Societies | Modalku Included in Global List of 100 Leading Fintech Innovators (Markets Insider), Rated: AAA

Canada

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