Peer to Peer Lending

Established on 25 March 2016, the National Internet Finance Association of China (NIFA) is a national self-regulatory organization in the field of Internet Finance and is initiated by the People’s Bank of China in collaboration with relevant ministries and commissions including the CBRC (China Banking Regulatory Commission), the CSRC (China Securities Regulatory Commission), and the CIRC (China Insurance Regulatory Commission). ... Read More »

Yirendai Ltd., a leading fintech company in China, announced today that it has connected to the Internet Finance Industry Credit Information Sharing Platform (“the Platform”) established by the National Internet Finance Association of China (“NIFA”). The Platform was established to serve as an industry wide credit data sharing database in aims of reducing credit risk, improving the credit environment and ... Read More »

  Modalku, Pefindo Credit Bureau partner to create more inclusive financial ecosystem MODALKU, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lender in Indonesia, and Pefindo Credit Bureau, a credit information organisation, have announced a collaboration to build a more efficient and data-driven P2P lending infrastructure so more people will have access to quality financial services. The partnership gains Modalku access to Pefindo’s credit reports, ... Read More »

Several internet firms have filed with the central bank to set up a credit-information platform. The new company, under the name of Baihang Credit Scoring, will be backed by Alibaba and Tencent, among others, according to the People’s Bank of China on Thursday. With 36 percent of the company, the National Internet Finance Association of China will be the largest ... Read More »

On January 4, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) accepted a license application for consumer credit bureau led by the National Internet Finance Association of China.  The name of the credit bureau is Baihang Credit Scoring. As of now, the Credit Reference Center of the central bank is the only consumer credit bureau in China. Lending has always been the prerogative of ... Read More »

In order to tighten regulations on personal borrowings from alternative lending platforms, the People’s Bank of China, China’s central bank, has made plans to launch a platform by the end of 2017 for collecting personal credit information to assess credit ratings of people using alternative lending platforms. Over the past year, the intense expansion of consumer loans (mostly from online ... Read More »

Customers without credit scores can take the digital journey to get loans Rajiv Raj and Abhishek Agarwal co-founders of CreditVidya comment why fintech companies and P2P lending platforms are looking at alternative data, and how you should take care of your digital footprints Rajiv Raj (left) and Abhishek Agarwal, co-founders of CreditVidya. Mumbai-based CreditVidya, a fintech start-up, uses alternative data ... Read More »

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) issued Non-Banking Financial Company – Peer to Peer Lending Platform (Reserve Bank) Directions, 2017, on 4 October. By way of these master directions, the RBI has brought peer to peer lending platforms, also known as crowdfunding platforms, within its regulatory supervision and classified them as non-banking financial companies (NBFC-P2Ps). The master directions make provisions ... Read More »

Fed Researchers Compare P2P Lending to Subprime Mortgages The peer-to-peer lending industry has the potential to destabilize consumer balance sheets, with loan performances bearing a striking resemblance to the subprime mortgage market before the 2007 crisis, warns a new paper from the Cleveland Federal Reserve. P2P lending arrived in the US in 2006, offering an alternative to traditional banks for ... Read More »

The guidelines introduced by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on P2P lending will bring a greater degree of transparency and seriousness to the sector, according to the exporters. i2i funding, a P2P funding company welcomed the much awaited RBI guidelines, considering the guidelines as a defining moment for P2P lending sector. While P2P is considered a credible alternative financing ... Read More »

Credit rating agency Crisil has withdrawan its application to enter peer-to-peer lending business, the Department of Economic Affairs had announced recently.  DEA, in the finance ministry, also said it has disposed of six FDI proposals aggregating to foreign investment of Rs 85.45 crore during September DEA, in the finance ministry, also said it has disposed of six FDI proposals aggregating ... Read More »

Bridging the gap between China’s shadow banking and traditional banking sectors, CreditEase is an online lending and investment platform that represents the increasing importance of the Chinese fintech industry. The firm was started in 2006 by CEO Ning Tang, who attended the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing and worked on Wall Street prior to founding his company. Sara Hsu met ... Read More »

Credit China FinTech Holdings Ltd is planning more investments as it aggressively expands beyond its original loans and lease-financing businesses into online payments and peer-to-peer lending. The company, part of a consortium that offered to buy a stake in Ping An Securities Group Holdings Ltd last month, is in talks with “multiple” financial-services companies based in Asia outside China, said ... Read More »

Nine out of 10 of the mainland’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platforms will struggle to survive this year as the government rolls out tightened regulatory supervisions, according to a multi-agency report recently led by the Beijing Bureau of Financial Work.  About 500 P2P companies, out of the total 4,856 players across the nation, are likely to maintain their operations this year, ... Read More »

Equifax UK has been appointed by new P2P lending platform Flender to support the underwriting of loans for UK SMEs. Equifax will supply real-time consumer and commercial data so that the underwriting process can be automated and optimised.  The data insight, provided via the Equifax Business Insights solution, will give a holistic view of SME loan applicants, providing Flender with ... Read More »