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Lending Club Underwriting Questioned As Chargeoffs Climb

Bank Innovation

Scandals aside, Lending Club has been doing well in the area that mattered — borrowers were paying back their loans. But a new report from the Wall Street Journal indicates that chargeoff rates at Lending Club are up 38% since 2013. This is troubling because credit card default rates decreased over the Read More.

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GAO: FinTech Firms, FIs Seek Alternative Data Clarity In Lending

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) said that financial regulators should look more closely at the role of non-bank tech companies in the small business (SMB) lending and consumer lending markets. Such alternative data, said the GAO, could pose risk to such lending decisions.

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Kabbage Acquires Lending Data Provider Orchard Platform Markets

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Small business lending platform Kabbage is making plans to acquire Orchard Platform Markets, a provider of lending data and services. According to Bloomberg , several sources said that Kabbage plans to use Orchard’s technology. It focuses on small businesses and licenses technology to banks, much like Orchard.

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Small banks: Big challenges and big opportunities

Abrigo

Takeaway 3 With effective technology, the bank can continue to grow its portfolio without necessarily adding staff. According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City , community banks’ deposit market share dropped to 15% in 2022 from 22% in 2013. I don’t want my veteran bankers writing a credit memo,” he said.

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Lending Club’s Terrible Twos

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Two years ago today, Lending Club was ringing the bell on an IPO that one early investor called “a no-brainer.”. Lending Club’s model does not need bank branches on each street corner, and it can turn around in minutes and hours, not days. And disrupt Lending Club did, with its marketplace lending model, scores of imitators in the U.S.

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Lending Club’s Bombshell And Alt-Lending Aftershocks

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I feel that our competitive advantage compared to traditional banks is really long lasting because, again, it is grounded in technology and cost, not something they can react to. “. Renaud Laplanche , Former CEO of Lending Club, in a 2013 interview. Lending Club was the poster child of that alt lending movement.

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JPMC Bets On Travel Rebound With Acquisition Of cxLoyalty's Rewards Division

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CEO since 2013, Siegel will continue to lead the company following the acquisition. This investment demonstrates our commitment to deliver exceptional travel benefits at-scale to our large and rapidly growing customer base,” Marianne Lake, CEO of Consumer Lending at J.P. Morgan Chase, said in a press release.