The Asset provides details on recent decreases in China's P2P lending market; the chart above notes a significant decrease in transaction volume for P2P lenders in China since December 2016; the publication also reports on the number of Chinese P2P platforms and the number of problematic P2P platforms from January 2014 through February 2017. Source
Consumer lenders Lending Club and Prosper are reporting growth in originations; for the second quarter Lending Club loan originations reached $2.1473 billion, increasing 10% from the previous quarter and the second quarter of 2016; Prosper originated $774.7 million worth of loans in the second quarter of 2017, an increase from $586 million in Q1 and $445 million in the second quarter of 2016; both companies had high Q1 2016 originations which has kept first half 2017 totals down in comparison to 2016. Source
Currently the student loan debt market is at approximately $1.4 trillion; market share from government lenders has been on the rise under the Obama administration with federal student loans accounting for approximately 93% of the market versus 88% in 2008; in the Trump administration it is likely that private lenders will take a larger share as Republicans favor more financing options from private sector participants; since the November 8 election, shares of private lender Sallie Mae have increased 55%; marketplace lenders are also likely to take part in a market shift towards private student lending, specifically as their student loan offerings continue to expand. Source
PeerIQ has released its fourth quarter "Marketplace Lending Securitization Tracker" with details on the marketplace lending securitization market; the chart below shows the marketplace lending securitization issuance for the top 10 originators; SoFi leads the list with $6.85 billion in securitized loans, followed by Prosper and Avant. Source
PeerIQ provides analysis of the recent OneMain securitization; the chart above compares the deal to other recent online lending securitizations; the deal closed at $947 million and it includes loans from Springleaf and OneMain which have merged under the OneMain brand. Source
Ram Ahluwalia from PeerIQ was a featured keynote speaker at LendIt USA 2017; Ram reports marketplace lending securitizations reached over $12 billion in issuance from over 75 transactions; in the third quarter of 2016 rated tranches reached a peak of nearly 25 and in the fourth quarter of 2016 rated tranches were approximately 18. Source
The chart below shows the stock performance for Lending Club versus OnDeck since May 16, 2016, which is the day Lending Club's stock bottomed out after their CEO resigned; Lending Club is up 64% and OnDeck is up 8%; both companies have taken a hit this week after earnings, largely due to profit taking.
Many people don't realize the role that non-bank lenders play in the mortgage business; the below bar chart breaks down the top originators in Q2 2016; while traditional banks still are represented in the top 10 and Wells Fargo still leads by a wide margin, non-banks represented 63% of the total number of originations in the top 10; non-banks lead origination of mortgages which are insured by the Federal Housing Administration and the Veterans Administration; the graph shows the trend we have seen since 2009 of non-bank lenders increasing their share of the market; at LendIt we will feature a panel on the shifting mortgage origination landscape with companies such as Better Mortgage and loanDepot. Source
