Consumer marketplace lending in Australia: Credit scores and loan funding success

Andrew Grant and Luke Deer

Australian Journal of Management, 2020, vol. 45, issue 4, 607-623

Abstract: This article examines borrower acceptance in consumer marketplace lending using a unique dataset from the largest platform in Australia, Society One. Applications are initially filtered through an automated decision tree based on a third-party Veda (Equifax) credit score. At the second stage of assessment, loan applications are underwritten by the platform before being offered to sophisticated investors for purchase. The platform accepts around 11% of completed applications, with around 55% declined by an automated decision process and the remaining 34% by the manual underwriting process. More than 80% of purchased loans were made to borrowers with credit scores classed as ‘Good’, ‘Very Good’ or ‘Excellent’ (the threshold for ‘Good’ being a score of 622). However, underwriters decline around two-thirds of these higher credit score applicants, showing the importance of the underwriting process to the platform’s growth. JEL Classification: G21, G23, D14, D45, D82

Keywords: Consumer lending; credit scoring; marketplace lending (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/0312896219883678

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