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Lending Club Signs a Deal With a Consortium of 200 Community Banks

February 9, 2015 By Peter Renton 3 Comments

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Small Community Bank

The big announcements keep coming from Lending Club. While the partnerships with Google and Alibaba were big news, the deal announced today may have a more dramatic impact on Lending Club’s future.

Today, Lending Club announced a partnership with BancAlliance, a consortium of 200 community banks with assets ranging from $200 million to $10 billion. Similar to the bank partnerships Lending Club already has in place these banks will be investing in consumer loans originated by Lending Club, loans that they don’t want to or couldn’t afford to make themselves. They will also be sending their own customers and prospective borrowers to Lending Club.

According to the Wall Street Journal one of these community banks, Sugar River Bank in Newport, N.H., will be committing $5 million to this program:

At the end of 2014, Sugar River Bank’s loans to individuals totaled $1.4 million, or less than 1% of its $261 million in assets. Now the bank is committing $5 million for individual loans through the Lending Club deal by purchasing the loans of borrowers who apply through the Lending Club website. Sugar River Bank makes mostly real-estate and small-business loans, but doesn’t have enough demand to justify a large program for evaluating borrowers with different credit histories.

What this does is further cement Lending Club, and this industry in general, as a way for banks to partner to grow their business. For any bank without a significant credit card portfolio this is becoming a no-brainer. Smaller banks can now do what they used to do for most of the 20th century: make personal loans to people in their community.

On the flip side this gives Lending Club many of the benefits of a branch network without any of the costs. Consumers will soon be able to walk into banks all over the country and apply for an unsecured consumer loan that will be underwritten by Lending Club. And this is a program that is eminently scalable. I can see no reason why most of the 7,000 banks in this country won’t have a program like this in place in the near future.

Here is a link to the official press release.

Filed Under: Peer to Peer Lending Tagged With: banking, community banks, Lending Club

Views: 2,035

Comments

  1. Sarfaraz Sadruddin says

    February 9, 2015 at 8:57 am

    This is a bigger issue for “big banks” – they have major grip hold on consumer credit. LC is benefiting smaller banks as a mass marketing tool and lower cost to deploy/lend capital.

    Reply
  2. Prescott says

    February 9, 2015 at 3:40 pm

    LC is killing it with their partnerships

    Reply
  3. Mr. 1500 says

    February 11, 2015 at 8:31 am

    I’m very encouraged to see all of the deals Lending Club has been making lately. I believe that the company has a very bright future and I can’t wait to see what else they have in store.

    Reply

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