Cross River Intelligence Archives

February 2017

PeerIQ Partners with 1010data to Offer Hosted Normalized Online Lending Data

By Vy Phan

February 27, 2017

Data Partnership to Allow Online Lending Investors to Easily Analyze and Build Applications on 1010data’s Industry Standard Data Analytics Platform PeerIQ, a leading provider of data and analytics to the online lending sector, today announced a new data partnership with 1010data, offering the only integrated cloud platform that combines self-service data management and analytics at scale ...


Weekly Industry Update: February 26, 2017 (with advance release of PeerIQ Data Standards Whitepaper)

By Vy Phan

February 26, 2017

Fed Officials are taking an increasingly hawkish stance in public comments and minutes released from the recent FOMC indicate that rate hikes could occur "fairly soon." Fed bank lending data reveals that lending among large banks is, in fact, rising, contrary to the post-Dodd Frank conventional wisdom. We note however that a significant portion of new bank lending consists of financing loans origi ...


PeerIQ Pushes for Loan-Data Standards

By Vy Phan

February 24, 2017

Asset Backed Alert (February 24, 2017) Original article available here (subscription required) A new report from PeerIQ aims to illustrate the pitfalls of a lack of standardization in documenting marketplace-originated personal loans. The New York data firm plans to release its findings at “SFIG Vegas 2017,” the big industry conference that the Structured Finance Industry ...


Weekly Industry Update: Lending Club and OnDeck Earnings Highlights

By Vy Phan

February 20, 2017

Strong economic data this week across the January jobs reports, new housing starts, and retail sales has begun to catch up with improved investor and consumer sentiment. FinTech financings and bank partnerships continue. The WSJ reported that SoFi is near completion of a $500 Mn financing led by Silver Lake. The deal would reportedly value the firm at over $4 Bn. Last week S ...


Weekly Industry Update: Regulatory Policy Update

By Vy Phan

February 12, 2017

Regulatory policy dominated the headlines this week. Federal Reserve Governor, Daniel Tarullo, announced his plan to resign in the spring, providing Trump with a clear path to accelerate his deregulatory agenda. Tarullo architected and defended tough capital and liquidity rules, stress tests and greatly increased Federal Reserve oversight. Earlier this week House Financial Servic ...


Weekly Industry Update: Dodd-Frank Risk Retention Rules

By Vy Phan

February 5, 2017

President Trump signed a memorandum to review Dodd-Frank Act on Friday. Loosening bank regulation, as noted by WSJ, would return approximately $100 Bn excess capital to investors and shareholders and improve bank ROE. The news is welcome one for banks that struggle to cover their cost-of-capital in a post-crisis regulatory regime. However, in a setback for banks, Asset Backed Alert reported this ...