At Prosper, we value transparency and believe it benefits both borrowers and investors on our platform, as well as the marketplace lending industry overall. We are committed to providing our investors with the information and tools they need to invest through the Prosper platform, and over the past several years, we’ve shown this commitment in various ways. We were the first marketplace lending platform to offer expansive credit data via API to its investor community and we continue to publish loan-level performance for investors.
In order to help investors further understand performance trends and the Prosper portfolio, we will be regularly sharing information through the Prosper Performance Updates. These updates are developed by our Risk and Capital Markets teams and will provide succinct commentary regarding: (1) portfolio composition (2) gross loss curves (3) delinquency curves (4) pre-payment curves and (5) total payment curves.
We believe that our May update shows that our core product remains very attractive. Additionally, the origination data demonstrates a consistent credit profile in the Prosper portfolio. Other portfolio highlights for the month ending May 31, 2016 include:
- Expected return in our forward production is above 7% as a result of a recent price increase that further enhanced the expected risk-return profit of the product.
- Portfolio gross loss estimates relative to FICO (conservatism) remain at or above 2013 levels.Coupon relative to FICO (price to risk) is now between the 2013 and 2014 levels and significantly above 2015 levels.
- Cumulative gross charge-offs increased on a vintage by vintage basis as a result of Q3/Q4 2015 delinquency. We believe the delinquency was a result of environmental changes and created a more pronounced uptick on younger vintages, based on a higher proportion of principal outstanding during the 2015H2 period. Vintages originated in 2015 have shown a steeper slope than those in 2013 and 2014 but remain well below the 2009-2012 experience.
Additional portfolio insights can be found here.
At Prosper, we are extremely focused on offering a product that remains a strong relative value through multiple credit and interest rate scenarios. We will continue to publish performance updates and summarize elements of the more granular API and loan tape information on our blog.
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ii Coupon/FICO is a measure of return relative to traditional credit metrics (FICO). Higher numbers indicate more return per unit FICO. Indexed to 2014.
The data, statements and figures in this post are based on Prosper’s analysis and calculations which, in turn, are based on various data sources compiled and analyzed by Prosper with all reasonable care to ensure they contain no omission likely to affect their import. Neither the analysis nor the underlying data sources have been verified by an independent third party.
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