There is likely no one alive who has witnessed this level of economic disruption in this country in such a short time span. With potentially millions of people losing their jobs in the past two weeks this could have a dramatic impact on the consumer lenders.
We reached out on Monday of this week to several leading online consumer lenders, across a range of the credit spectrum, to get a sense as to how they were responding to the rapidly changing economic conditions. We asked four questions:
- What are you doing to help your existing borrowers?
- How are you changing their underwriting?
- How are you responding to increased loan demand?
- What is your message to investors?
We heard back from several of the leading companies although some wanted to talk on background only, preferring not to go on the record at this time. Suffice it to say that every single lender has reacted quickly to this looming crisis.
Below are their responses.
LendingClub
LendingClub released this 8-K earlier this week that has a detailed explanation as to how they are responding. Here is a short summary: [Read more…]
