Growing Pains: The Changing Regulation of Alternative Lending Platforms

Ding Chen (ding.chen@sheffield.ac.uk), Anil Kavuri (a.s.kavuri@lboro.ac.uk) and Alistair Milne (a.k.l.milne@lboro.ac.uk)
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Ding Chen: University of Sheffield
Alistair Milne: Loughborough University

A chapter in The Palgrave Handbook of Technological Finance, 2021, pp 441-475 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract We review the legal and regulatory framework covering alternative (“peer-to-peer” or “marketplace”) lending platforms in the UK, the US, China, and more briefly other countries. The main regulatory concerns are (i) enforcing consumer credit rules for unsecured personal lending; and (ii) protection of uninformed retail investors from mis-selling and platform failure. Alternative lending was first established with little regulatory oversight, but there has been substantial reregulation—first in the US via the 2008s decision that platform investments are securities; subsequently in the UK, China, and other countries. We anticipate further reregulation to protect retail investors, limiting the funding of loans from the “crowd.” Promoting credit supply through alternative lending platforms requires also institutional investor participation and embracing the use of technology in platform regulation (“RegTech”).

Keywords: P2P lending; Loan-based crowdfunding; Consumer protection; Investor protection; Banking; Banking competition; Financial technology; Financial regulation; Marketplace lending; JEL classifications: G21; G23; G28; K22; G21; G23; G28; K22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-65117-6_19

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