{"id":5840,"date":"2016-09-08T05:31:05","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T05:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2026-02-16T17:44:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T17:44:22","slug":"5840-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/5840-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer-to-peer lending: opportunities and risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pix.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/58_Prof_Narsihan_Sawaikar.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/58_Prof_Narsihan_Sawaikar.jpg\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/58_Prof_Narsihan_Sawaikar.jpg\"><\/a><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5846\" title=\"pix\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pix-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pix-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.welingkar.org\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/pix.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peer-to-peer   lending: opportunities and risks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/forbesindia.com\/search.php?searchtext=N%20Sawaikar\">N Sawaikar<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2011, the famed   Internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist Mark Anderson argued that   \u201csoftware is eating the world\u201d.\u00a0 What he meant was that software   products and online services, often created by new technology companies, were   disrupting one industry after another, most dramatically in retail and media.   Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending, which seeks to disrupt the bank lending business,   is a striking example of this phenomenon. The basic idea is simple: a P2P   lender provides an online platform which matches lenders and borrowers and   chargers a fee for the service. Unlike a bank it doesn\u2019t take deposits or   hold the loans on its books and doesn\u2019t make money off the spread between the   lending and deposit rate.<\/p>\n<p>The P2P lending business model was pioneered in the US and UK around 10 years   ago and has since spread around the world. The sector expanded rapidly after   the 2008 crisis when central banks everywhere sharply lowered interest rates.   This raised the gap between the very low interest rates that consumers were   paid on their deposits and the fairly high rates they still had to pay, for   example, on their credit card loans.<\/p>\n<p>This gap created an opening for P2P lenders whose basic value proposition was   cutting the costs of inter mediation between lenders and borrowers which   allowed lenders to earn a higher rate of interest and borrowers to pay a   lower rate. This was achieved by using large data sets and clever algorithms   to determine the creditworthiness of borrowers using a range of variables   like credit scores, financial history and social media usage. Over the years,   the business model has evolved and in particular there has been a rise of   institutional investors who use P2P platforms to build a loan portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>In India, the P2P industry is still small with around 30 companies. Perhaps   the most promising long-term application of P2P lending here is in enabling   financial inclusion. For the last 50 years, a shortfall of lending to groups   like small farmers and small enterprises has been a major concern. It is   difficult for a conventional bank to serve these customers because it is   costly to build bank branches and hire loan officers and therefore   uneconomical to lend to customers who borrow small amounts. Such customers   also struggle to produce the documentation needed to obtain a loan.<\/p>\n<p>The promise of the P2P model is that information technology can help assess   creditworthiness at a much lower cost and therefore make it easier to give   loans to marginal customers. For this to happen, these customers will need a   digital trail that can be analysed by software. However with rising ownership   of smartphones and the rise of digital platforms which use Aadhaar, this is   only a matter of time.<\/p>\n<p>P2P lending requires a different set of competencies compared to traditional   banking:\u00a0 access to large data-sets about individuals, developing smart   algorithms to make sense of this data and designing user-friendly online   interfaces which will guide individual lenders to make the right loan. Large   consumer-facing online companies like Google and Facebook are obvious   candidates and both of them have explored collaborations with P2P companies.   E-commerce companies and payment companies may also consider expanding into   this space.<\/p>\n<p>Is P2P lending a serious threat to conventional banks? Probably not in the   next ten years as the total volume of lending is still tiny compared to bank   lending. However as digital natives grow older and use more financial   products and as the P2P lending industry matures and gains credibility it may   gradually erode the conventional bank lending model.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the P2P model is in some ways safer than conventional bank   lending which creates mismatches between short-term liabilities (such as   deposits) and long-term assets (such as mortgage loans). This can make a bank   vulnerable to large loan defaults or a sudden withdrawal of deposits. By   contrast, in the pure P2P model, lenders are directly matched to borrowers   and while a cluster of defaults would certainly hurt lenders, it would not   necessarily bring down the lending company and trigger a wider financial   crisis.<\/p>\n<p>However there are risks in the P2P model as well and recently some P2P   lending companies have hit a rough patch. The CEO of Lending Place, one of   the oldest and largest P2P lenders, had to resign after an internal review   revealed a violation of the company\u2019s business practices. The massive P2P   lending industry in China experienced serious problems in 2015 with more than   a thousand lenders running into difficulties and hundreds of P2P bosses   simply running away from their companies. Such events underscore the need for   sensible regulation for the relatively new Indian P2P lending industry. In   April, the RBI published a discussion paper with proposals for regulating P2P   lenders. It suggested that they should act only as intermediaries between   lenders and borrowers and not take on the functions of a bank and accept   deposits. Some of the other proposals were a minimum capital requirement of   Rs 2 crore, a leverage ratio to prevent indiscriminate expansion and a   brick-and-mortar presence inside India.<\/p>\n<p>These and other proposals need to be thoroughly debated so that a sensible   regulatory regime can be created that finds a balance between enabling   innovation and protecting stakeholders. If that is done, the long-term future   of the P2P lending industry is bright and this new model has a lot of   potential to expand access to loans.<em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><strong><em>N Sawaikar is core faculty in Economics at WeSchool. 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