Orchard has released a comprehensive report analyzing platform data attributes across the marketplace lending industry; the white paper is titled, "Making Loan Data Actionable"; provides insight on varying data management strategies across the industry and explores an accounting standard for alternative marketplace loans; Orchard has taken the lead on marketplace lending data standardization due to its association with the majority of the industry's lending network. Source
Credibility Capital has completed a sale of a pool of whole loans to a regional bank; details of the loan portfolio and regional bank were not included; according to Brett Baris, chief executive officer of Credibility Capital: "Orchard provided a seamless software solution that improved the process for both sides of the transaction. With Orchard's new tool we were able to easily share vast amounts of loan data with our client on a single, easy-to-use platform." Source
Today, Orchard announced that their Orchard US Consumer Marketplace Lending Index will be distributed on the Bloomberg Professional Service. The index measures the...
Out of all the service providers in the marketplace lending industry Orchard has the broadest set of data on online...
Orchard recently inked a partnership deal with investment bank and broker dealer Sandler O’Neill to provide their bank and specialty...
Those of us who have been around the online lending space for a while will remember the “Lendscape” created by...
[Update: There will be a webinar at 11am ET on September 27 on the The Orchard Deals Platform brought to...
When I profiled Orchard back in February, the company was just a few months old and fresh off a $2.7...
Orchard has announced a new data services partnership with investment bank, Sandler O'Neill; Sandler O'Neill provides investment banking advisory services for clients in the financial services industry; the partnership will provide access to Orchard's full suite of marketplace lending data analytics services for Sandler O'Neill and its clients making Sandler O'Neill a leading investment advisory service for financial institutions considering bank partnerships. Source
Orchard provides some marketplace lending observations and lessons from 2016 in their featured blog post; cites comprehensively integrated risk management controls as essential; notes data quality as an important factor for investors; also says developing solutions for increased investor liquidity will be an increasingly important factor for investors as the industry evolves. Sponsored Blog Post