Orchard’s December 23 industry snapshot highlights interest from marketplace lenders Zopa and SoFi in providing banking deposit accounts; in publicly traded online lending stocks, Square led monthly gains with a return of 13.03% and Yirendai led losses with a monthly return of -19.40%; in P2P listed funds the VPC Specialty Lending Fund led gains with a monthly return of 10.18% and the Ranger Direct Lending Fund led losses with a monthly return of -5.49%. Source
