Tagged: yirendai

August 17, 2019 @ 12:05 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Tencent-backed WeBank Fined ¥2 million for multiple violations WeBank, China’s first internet bank, was fined for ¥2 million for multiple violations against Law of the People’s Republic of China on Commercial Banks. In an inspection last year, the Shenzhen branch of the China Banking and… Read More

July 13, 2019 @ 2:32 pm By Xu Gao  |  

China’s State Council Approves the Research and Development of CBDC At the launching ceremony and the first academic seminar of the Digital Finance Open Research Project held on July 8th, Wang Xin, director of the Research Bureau of the People’s Bank of China, revealed that… Read More

August 11, 2018 @ 11:16 am By JD Alois  |  

Ning Tang, founder and CEO of CreditEase – a huge Chinese Fintech that started as just a peer to peer lending platform, recently spoke to Bloomberg in Asia. CreditEase is also the majority shareholder of US listed online lender Yirendai (NYSE:YRD) Tang provided an interesting… Read More

June 30, 2018 @ 5:00 pm By Xu Gao  |  

Baihang Credit Rating Announces the First 15 Crew Members On June 28th, Baihang Credit Co., Ltd. announced its first crew members in Shenzhen. These 15 institutions are mainly Fintech and consumer finance companies, including Yirendai and PPDAI. According to the cooperation agreement, these 15 institutions… Read More

June 19, 2018 @ 8:18 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese fintech Yirendai announced on Tuesday global investment banking group Goldman Sachs has provided it with RMB 324 million of funding for a term of three years. While sharing details about the investment,  Dennis Cong, Chief Financial Officer of Yirendai, stated: “We are very excited to see the… Read More

June 11, 2018 @ 7:19 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yirendai Ltd. (NYSE: YRD), a fintech company that’s based in China, announced on Monday its board of directors has approved a share repurchase program whereby Yirendai is authorized to repurchase its ordinary shares in the form of American depositary shares with an initial aggregate value of up to $20 million. While sharing more details about the… Read More

March 15, 2018 @ 8:57 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yirendai Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) (“Yirendai” or the “Company”), a leading fintech company in China, announced on Thursday the release of its unaudited financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2017. The company reported that in the fourth quarter of 2017, it facilitated RMB 13,438.5 million (US$2,065.5 million)… Read More

February 9, 2018 @ 11:22 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

On Thursday, Chinese fintech Yirendai Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) announced it has entered into a three-year business agreement with PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited. The company reported that under the terms of the Agreement, PICC P&C will provide surety insurance for loans, with a maximum term of… Read More

January 23, 2018 @ 10:51 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

China-based fintech Yirendai announced on Tuesday it has connected to the Internet Finance Industry Credit Information Sharing Platform, which was established by the National Internet Finance Association of China (NIFA). Yirendai has also been selected by NIFA to participate in a pilot project to enable automatic queries and… Read More

December 14, 2017 @ 10:37 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

China-based fintech Yirendai announced on Wednesday it has made a $50 million strategic investment in Lion Rock through the financial service platform’s Series A funding round. According to Yirendai, Lion Rock is headquartered in Hong Kong and is licensed by the Hong Kong Securities and… Read More

November 24, 2017 @ 8:20 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese marketplace lending platform Yirendai (NYSE: YRD) announced on Friday it has received its ISO 27001 Certification from the British Standards Institution. According to the online lender, the ISO 27001 certification is an internationally recognized best practice framework for an information security management system (“ISMS”) and… Read More

July 11, 2017 @ 10:18 am By JD Alois  |  

Yirendai (NYSE:YRD), a China based peer to peer lender that is a sister company of CreditEase, has shared that a lawsuit filed against it in 2016 has been completely dismissed. The putative class action lawsuit was brought by multiple law firms pertaining to the decline in… Read More

April 20, 2017 @ 10:06 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese marketplace lending platform Yirendai (NYSE: YRD) announced on Thursday it has made incremental progress in facilitating consumer loan products with asset-backed security (ABS) structure. This news comes just a couple weeks after the online lender entered into an agreement of intent with the Beijing branch of… Read More

April 17, 2017 @ 10:49 pm By Jonathan Nieh  |  

  China Rapid Finance, a peer-to-peer (P2P) lender based in Shanghai, China, announced that it has set the terms for its upcoming US IPO. The company plans to raise $105 million through the offering of 10 million shares priced between $9.50 to $11.50 a share. At… Read More

March 30, 2017 @ 8:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese marketplace lending platform Yirendai (NYSE: YRD) announced on Thursday it has entered into an agreement of intent with the Beijing branch of PICC Property and Casualty Company Limited (PICC P&C). Yirendai reported that under this new agreement, PICC P&C would provide Yirendai with a… Read More

March 26, 2017 @ 11:10 am By Xu Gao  |  

China Development Forum 2017 Talked About Systematic Risk in Fintech Industry The annual session of China Development Forum 2017, organized by the China Development Research Foundation, was hosted by the Development Research Center of the State Council of China on March 18-20, 2017 at the… Read More

March 16, 2017 @ 8:54 am By JD Alois  |  

Yirendai Ltd. (NYSE:YRD), a prominent online lender in China, announced its unaudited financial results for the quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016. Folowing the release, shares moved lower in pre-market trading. In Q4 of 2016, Yirendai reported it had facilitated 194,505 investors with total… Read More

March 16, 2017 @ 8:31 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Chinese marketplace lending platform Yirendai announced on Thursday it has appointed Dr. Yichuan Pei as its new Chief Credit Officer. According to the lender, Dr. Pei will be responsible for the over management of its credit department to ensure that the credit risk of loan… Read More

March 10, 2017 @ 12:17 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendItUSA, the annual event that jumps between New York City and San Francisco everu 12 months, opened up to larger audiences and an industry sector that endured a challenging year. The online lending sector received a two-punch assault in 2016; a battle that left the… Read More

March 9, 2017 @ 2:03 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Yirendai (NYSE: YRD) announced the launch of its new open technology platform, Yirendai Enabling Platform (YEP), during the 2017 LendIt USA Conference, which was held earlier this week in New York City. According to Yirendai, the new platform enables part companies to utilize its data… Read More