Strategic review of emerging on-line personal finance offerings, based on changing consumer perceptions of the value and credibility of traditional finance service providers.
Considers social lending, micro-credit, and peer-to-peer lending, in combination with prediction markets, as a new personal finance ecosystem.
Explores service concepts and describes experience scenarios with the goal of finding opportunities for existing finance providers to engage with new models.
14. “There is a significant
loss of confidence with
banks right now.
People are turning to
whatever communities
they think are best able
to serve them.”
Gartner Research
15. “Visits to online
personal finance
sites are up
threefold over last
year”
17. “Because of the crisis, I
actually felt more
comfortable than if this
were some big bank.”
“This Web site makes
me feel safer.”
Holli Banks, SmartyPig Customer
29. Balanced Offerings
Satisfying business goals provides value for the
business
Meeting user needs provides value for customers
Business Balance is essential for success: business
objectives objectives and user needs must provide shared
& context value
Unbalanced offerings fail!
Value
User needs
& context Business
objective
Business
objective
Business
objective
User User User
needs needs needs
30. Current Offerings
Size
Commercial / Sovereign
Services
Small Entity?
Biz, Gov, Non-profit
Private Banking
SFO
Personal?
Complexity
36. Micro-credit
Shifts & Enabling Factors
• New populations (emerging market) incorporated into global financial system
• Financial instruments available to many more people
• Broader participation in financial / lending system
• Lending becomes social, political,
Future Experience
• Micro-credit system directly connects people across national, cultural,
geographical barriers
• Small transactions formalized & legitimized
• People can generate goodwill & personal connections by lending
Traditional players can provide platform, services.
37. P2P Finance
Shifts & Enabling Factors
• Disintermediation of traditional lenders for small loans
• Increase in range of lending/borrowing options available
• Lending / borrowing localized in relation to different axes - no longer place /
purpose
Future Experience
• Lending / borrowing may no longer controlled and centralized by banks / other
traditional lenders.
• Peer and personal finance = transparent - ratings and histories available on all
parties
• All parties rely on distributed services & finance ecosystem: ratings, contracts,
mediation, communication, etc.
Traditional players can provide platform, services.
38. Prediction Markets
Shifts & Enabling Factors
• Growing acceptance of prediction markets for wider contexts; smaller
enterprises; public policy, politics, finance, entertainment.
• People use prediction markets for individual goals, within individual contexts.
Future Experience
• Personal / group financial decisions can be vetted by experts using cheaply
available collective intelligence tools.
• Prediction markets introduce collective intelligence into financial planning for
individuals and small enterprises.
Traditional players can provide platform, services.
41. Simon: Small Business
Simon owns a bakery and dessert shop. He wants to sell a new kind
of chocolate candy for the holidays. He needs a machine to make the
new kind of candy. The bakery has steady revenue, but Simon needs
a loan to buy the machine.
1. Simon hears about P2P lending for small businesses.
2. Simon checks the ratings of several lending networks focused
on small businesses.
3. Simon compares their terms with loan terms from a bank.
4. The P2P network offers better terms!
5. Simon joins the network, and requests a loan.
42. Simon: Small Business
• The lending network compares Simonʼs request to the results of
similar requests, reviews Simonʼs credit scores and reputation, and
creates a prediction profile.
• The lending network publishes the profile to a prediction market
focused on small business investment.
• The prediction market judges Simon will make enough money to
repay a loan, if the new chocolates sell well.
• The lending networkʼs sends the prediction profile, and judgement to a
network of capital management advisors.
• These advisors recommend Simon lease a machine for six months,
to test sales.
43. Simon: Small Business
• The lending network shares the judgement and advice with Simon,
who agrees with the recommendation.
• The lending network opens a loan for the amount required to lease.
• Lending network members fund the loan based on Simonʼs data,
and the prediction marketʼs judgements, and the advisory report.
• Simon leases the chocolate machine for his bakery
• The chocolates sell well, and Simon repays his loan early, earning
good reputation points within the lending network.
Main Street vs. Wall Street
by Jack Loechner
A new survey of American consumer attitudes to Wall Street by The Harris Poll of 1,010 adults surveyed between February 10 and 15, 2009
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=101756
Main Street vs. Wall Street
by Jack Loechner
A new survey of American consumer attitudes to Wall Street by The Harris Poll of 1,010 adults surveyed between February 10 and 15, 2009
http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Articles.showArticle&art_aid=101756
Lose Confidence in Your Bank? Turn to the Web
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Published: December 19, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/your-money/20mint.html
Lose Confidence in Your Bank? Turn to the Web
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER
Published: December 19, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/your-money/20mint.html
, said Jim Bruene, founder of the trade publisher Online Financial Innovations, and many of the sites say they have grown quickly since the crisis worsened in September.
The principles of microcredit have also been applied in attempting to address several non-poverty-related issues. Among these, multiple Internet-based organizations have developed platforms that facilitate a modified form of peer-to-peer lending where a loan is not made in the form of a single, direct loan, but as the aggregation of a number of smaller loans—often at a negligible interest rate. There are several ways by which the general public can participate in alleviating poverty using Web platforms.
“Because of the crisis, I actually felt more comfortable than if this were some big bank,” Ms. Buck said. “With everything that’s going on with banks, I’m not ready to give them my money. This Web site makes me feel safer.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/your-money/20mint.html
January 22, 2009, 2:36 PM ET
Peer-to-Peer Lending Refuses to Die
http://blogs.wsj.com/wallet/2009/01/22/peer-to-peer-lending-refuses-to-die/
But there are signs of life. Lending Club, which recently registered with the SEC to create a secondary market for its loans, has been signing up twice as many lenders each week than it was last spring, and new loan originations are up about 40% over year-ago levels, says Renaud Laplanche, Lending Club’s founder and chief executive.
http://pertuitydirect.com/docs/launch_press_release.pdf
Pertuity Direct Launches Next Generation Social Finance Platform
Company Brings Together the Advantages of Capital Markets, Social Networking and
Traditional Banking
Pertuity Direct Launches Financial Mashup: Consumer Loans + Mutual Funds + Social Finance
By Jim Bruene on February 15, 2009 12:43 PM
Overview
Pertuity Direct is an amalgamation of two financial services plus a social lending community:
* Mutual fund: Retail investment assets are gathered via the National Retail Fund, an interval mutual fund created by Gemini Fund Services. The fund plans to invest primarily in consumer loans originated by Pertuity Direct (see note 1). At the outset, there are two mutual funds to choose from: one will invest only in loans to prime customers with credit scores of 720 or higher; the other will take on more risk and invest in loans to borrowers with 660 or higher scores. Minimum investment is $250 and current estimated fund expenses are 3.1%.
* Consumer loans: Three-year installment loans of $1,000 to $25,000 will be originated by Pertuity Direct under state licensure. The loans will be sold to The National Retail Fund who will hold them until they pay off. Pertuity Direct will be paid a 1% servicing fee from the fund. Borrowers also pay a 1% to 2% loan fee at funding. The company is currently licensed in 37 states.
Social lending: The last, and least, piece of the product is a social lending forum, where mutual fund investors can purchase Pertuity Bucks to give to already-funded borrowers to help them repay their loans.
Peer-to-Peer Banking
(Business 2.0)
By Rebecca Jarvis
August 1, 2005
The service is open to any U.K. resident over 18 who clears a credit check. Each borrower is assigned to one of two categories: market A for people with solid credit, and market B for riskier borrowers, who pay higher rates. To dampen the effect of defaults, Zopa spreads each user's cash among at least 50 customers. The payoff for would-be J.P. Morgans? Their money works harder than it would in the best money-market accounts. Market A lenders can expect returns around 6 percent, while market B lenders get rates as high as 9 percent. Zopa, meanwhile, takes a 1 percent commission from every borrower's loan.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2005/08/01/8269646/index.htm
MicroPlace.com, a wholly-owned subsidiary of eBay, was launched in October 2007. With Microplace, retail investors in the US can buy securities issued by security issuers. Therefore, MicroPlace is tapping into the socially responsible investment world and can attract larger capital to microcredit. Deutsche Bank estimates that $250 billion [7]is needed to raise enough capital to get it into the hands of the one billion working poor who could benefit from microcredit. While the US gave $303 billion [8] in charity to all causes, they invested $2.4 trillion in socially responsible investments. [9]