Today we are sharing performance data for the Prosper portfolio for February 2017.
The Prosper portfolio continues to deliver an estimated return above 7%. During the month of February, we continued to see the expected shift in rating distribution of the book towards higher-risk ratings as a result of the implementation of our PMI7 credit model. This anticipated distribution change is largely due to PMI7’s utilization of time series credit data, which provides a significant boost in predictive power. This increase in predictive power enables the effective inclusion of customer that would have been declined using PMI6.
While the portfolio coupon has increased nearly 300bps between December 2016 and February 2017, the average DTI of the book has improved and the average FICO of 707 remains within historical norms.
Additional highlights from the February update include:
- Estimated return on February 2017 production is 7.72%.
- An updated pricing policy to target the higher-quality portion of the book was implemented in early March in response to broader marketplace pricing and the steepening of the yield curve. This update does not impact February originations; however, moving forward we expect to increase coupons by 60bps, 40bps and 20bps for AA, A and B rated loans respectively.
- Early delinquency rates in Q3 2016 and Q4 2016 vintages show continued improvement over H1 2016. We expect that the downward rating migration introduced with PMI7 at the end of December will lead to higher portfolio delinquency rates in the 2017 book. This is a result of a higher loss expectation book generally having higher early delinquency rates. Prosper is closely monitoring early performance to ensure that the higher early delinquency remains within expectations appropriate for the new higher loss portfolio.
Portfolio insights and key charts can be found here.
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