Those of us who have been around the online lending space for a while will remember the “Lendscape” created by...
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Orchard stresses the importance of recovery rates in valuing pools of loans; blog post takes Orchard’s US unsecured consumer lending industry data and discusses what loan recoveries are, how they are calculated, how debt holders recover defaulted loan balances, and why recovery rates are so important. Source
[Update: There will be a webinar at 11am ET on September 27 on the The Orchard Deals Platform brought to...
Orchard reports on the diversity of business lending, breaking lending down by industry and state using data from Orchard; reports that they have the most data on retail trade followed by health care and social assistance, and construction; shares the concentration of lending of several industries by state. Source
In this week’s PeerIQ Industry Update they cover the concerns former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke raised about the neutral rate...
According to a report in Bloomberg online small business lender Kabbage is getting set to acquire Orchard. The companies have not yet confirmed and the cost of a potential deal is also not known. Source.
Orchard has been working for a long time on their new platform called Orchard Deals; the platform has been redesigned from the ground up and boasts more than just a secondary market; features include deal listings, capital management, advanced analytics, data services and news & insights; Peter Renton from Lend Academy spoke with Orchard CEO Matt Burton and outlines what’s new in the blog post. Source
Orchard has a unique perspective on online lending given how close they are both with originators and investors; Matt Burton shares themes from LendIt 2017 and looks back at what has happened over the past few years; Burton believes that many companies are positioned for growth this year with increased institutional investor interest; shares that the industry is still small compared to where it could go and explores what needs to happen in order to "expand the tent"; discusses growth in originations, securitization, partnerships and the expansion of asset classes in the industry. Source
Orchard has updated its US Consumer Online Loan Index; constituents providing data for the Index have increased to five; new methodologies pertaining to estimates and delinquencies have also been incorporated to improve the Index’s reporting; the updates increase the credibility of the Index as a performance benchmark for the marketplace lending industry; Bill Ullman, Orchard’s chief commercial officer, provides some additional details on the Index’s updates and an analysis of its performance in a blog post. Source