Lending Club and the Peer-to-Peer Lending Market in 2016 Case Solution
Abstract:
The LendingClub case tells the advancement of the major market lending company in the U.S.A from its starting in 2006 by Renaud Laplanche to the crisis of 2016. It supplies details on the initial organisation design focus on the individual loan market, in addition to the growth into bank loan, lendings to moms and dads to obtain their kids through independent school, medical treatments, collaborations with banks and institutional financiers, and so on. The case explains the occasions preceeding Laplanche's shift in Might 2016.
Pedagogical Goals:
Like other markets, banking is dealing with dangers from alternative provider, jointly described as FinTech companies. The Lending Club case analyzes the hazard of disturbance from the perspective of incumbent banks along with the chance for disturbance from the viewpoint of the brand-new entrants. The problems it dealt with allow conversation of whether business choices of LendingClub were the primary factor for its difficulties, or whether business design itself is practical, i.e. how sustainable were the benefits that LendingClub developed in its very first years of presence?
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