The performance of marketplace lenders

Roman Kräussl, Zsofia Kräussl, Joshua M. Pollet and Kalle Rinne

No 706, CFS Working Paper Series from Center for Financial Studies (CFS)

Abstract: We analyze the performance of marketplace lending using loan cash flow data from the largest platform, Lending Club. We find substantial risk-adjusted performance of about 40 basis points per month for the entire loan portfolio. Other loan portfolios grouped by risk category have similar risk-adjusted performance. We show that characteristics of the local bank sector for each loan, such as concentration of deposits and the presence of national banks, are related to the performance of loans. Thus, marketplace lending has the potential to finance a growing share of the consumer credit market in the absence of a competitive response from the traditional incumbents.

Keywords: Marketplace lending; household finance; financial intermediation; financial innovation; competition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 G21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3240020

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