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Strong Employment Report; PeerIQ’s Benchmarking Application

By Vy Phan

January 6, 2019

Greetings,

US employment rose by 312 k in December, the most in 10 months, and average hourly earnings rose by 3.2% YoY, signifying broad-based gains in jobs and wages. The economy remains on a strong footing despite equity and credit market volatility.

Real new bank credit fell below 1% at the end of 2018. This is a mixed indicator of a recession as there have been 9 recessions since the 1950s after real new bank credit has fallen below 1%, but also about 6 false signals as well.

Source: Federal Reserve, BEA, PeerIQ

Governor Cuomo has nominated Linda Lacewell, his former Chief of Staff, to run the New York Department of Financial Services. Lacewell was the architect of OpenNY, a state-of-the-art open data initiative. PeerIQ’s view is that this change is a win for the FinTech sector. The prior head of NYS DFS, Maria Vullo, challenged the OCC's regulatory authority to issue national bank charters to FinTechs, while Lacewell is expected to be friendlier towards innovative FinTechs. 

This week, we look at PeerIQ’s Benchmarking methodology. We also present PeerIQ’s Consumer Credit Digest (in pdf format) for insights on consumer credit performance.

PeerIQ’s Benchmarking Methodology and Whitepaper

We look at PeerIQ’s Benchmarking methodology below. As the market for consumer credit expands and matures, there is an ever-greater need for both investors and originators analyze their loan portfolios performance relative to a relevant benchmark.

Benchmark analysis is a necessary tool for loan investors, who currently have limited tools to effectively understand how they are performing vis-a-vis the overall market. With the appropriate benchmark, attribution analysis allows investors to identify where their portfolio is under or over-performing and what actions they can take to improve portfolio returns.

PeerIQ has released a White Paper on our Benchmarking methodology. The white paper delves into:

Benchmarking Screenshots

Source: PeerIQ

Do reach out to learn how you can utilize our benchmarking app to evaluate the performance of your loan pools!

Consumer Credit Digest – Get an Edge on US Consumer Credit

 Looking for insights into how consumer credit has performed during prior periods of market volatility? How are US consumers performing today across asset classes? How are prepayments and losses trending in the personal loan and subprime auto space?

 The Digest, published monthly and powered by the TransUnion credit file, is a detailed market report and summary data that allows the reader to track trends in consumer credit with the following features:

·        Robust data & coverage, representing the full credit file back to 2000

·        Custom metrics and charts, including refinance and attribute migration

·        Key stratifications, including risk, age, originator type (e.g. Fintech)     

Source: PeerIQ

 Download a free trial version of the report or contact ccd@www.peeriq.com to learn more. The report is also available in PDF format.  

 

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