FinTech lender Upstart Holdings has sold up to $2 billion of consumer installment loans to private credit lender Blue Owl Capital. The deal includes $290 million of personal loans that have already been handed out, as well as debt that Blue Owl will buy over the next 18...
If you are in the business of providing loans, there will always be a demand for your product. As for the customers that need to be served, the total addressable market (TAM) for annual loan originations is a whopping $3 trillion. Artificial intelligence (AI)-powered lending...
Paytm’s stock hit a two-year low Thursday (Dec. 7) after it changed its small-ticket loan policy and brokers downgraded its stock. The Indian FinTech had announced earlier in the week that it would make fewer small loans — those below 50,000 rupees, or $600 — in light...
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Affirm continues to see demand from investors, reportedly defying earlier concerns about rising interest rates affecting all BNPL lenders. Unlike traditional banks, BNPL providers rely on the market to obtain funds for offering small loans and installment plans to shoppers, exposing...
November 18, 2024
The banking system is sound, and resilient, according to the Federal Reserve. But the performance of some of the loans on banks’ books — particularly at smaller financial institutions (FIs) — bear watching. To that end, the central bank noted in its semiannual Supervision and Regulation Report released this month that credit card loans, auto […]
October 10, 2024
FinTech lender Upstart Holdings has sold up to $2 billion of consumer installment loans to private credit lender Blue Owl Capital. The deal includes $290 million of personal loans that have already been handed out, as well as debt that Blue Owl will buy over the next 18 months in a forward-flow agreement, buying the loans before they have […]
December 07, 2023
Paytm’s stock hit a two-year low Thursday (Dec. 7) after it changed its small-ticket loan policy and brokers downgraded its stock. The Indian FinTech had announced earlier in the week that it...
November 09, 2023
Buy now, pay later (BNPL) company Affirm continues to see demand from investors, reportedly defying earlier concerns about rising interest rates affecting all BNPL lenders. Unlike traditional banks, BNPL providers rely on...
November 06, 2023
Lending standards have tightened and demand has weakened in the third quarter of 2023, according to the Federal Reserve’s October Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey (SLOOS) on Bank Lending Practices,...
