Institutional investment in online business lending markets

Cummins, Mark and Mac an Bhaird, Ciarán and Rosati, Pierangleo and Lynn, Theo (2020) Institutional investment in online business lending markets. International Review of Financial Analysis, 71. 101542. ISSN 1057-5219 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101542)

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Abstract

We provide new insights into the business lending decisions of institutional investors in online credit markets by benchmarking their lending performance against that of retail investors.We find superior performance for loans financed by institutional investors, although large sized retail investor groups achieve equivalent performance. Lending decisions of institutional investors are not default risk minimising, and we quantify lending inefficiencies. From a platform perspective, we show that (i) the platform-administered loan allocation process is not biased in favour of institutional investors, (ii) institutional participation in the retail marketplace is not a distorting factor in loan performance, and (iii) the platform's move to a fixed rate system had detrimental effects on loan outcomes for institutional investors. The superior loan performance achieved by institutional investors is confined to the auction period, when institutional investors had autonomy over setting interest rates.

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Item type:	Article
ID code:	82306
Dates:	Date Event 31 October 2020 Published 15 June 2020 Published Online 27 May 2020 Accepted
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Finance Social Sciences > Economic Theory
Department:	UNSPECIFIED
Depositing user:	Pure Administrator
Date deposited:	12 Sep 2022 11:26
Last modified:	09 Apr 2024 03:30
URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/82306

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