“As the job market cools down and inflation heats up, a new survey from Bankrate indicates that side hustles are a necessity for a growing number of Americans. Former top motivations for side hustling, like paying off debt and saving, have given way to a more pressing need: making ends meet.”
“Unfortunately, due to high inflation and other financial burdens, more side hustlers are working a side job just to make ends meet,” said Ted Rossman, Senior Industry Analyst for Bankrate. “Instead of using this income to boost savings, knock out debt or pay for a vacation, there has been a big increase in people who simply need these funds just to pay for everyday living expenses.”
“41% of U.S. adults who have a side job in 2022 need the extra income to pay for everyday living expenses as compared to 31%in 2019 (the last year of polling), according to a new survey from Bankrate.com.Fewer are putting this money towards savings(17% vs. 24%in 2019) and using it for discretionary spending (26% vs. 36%in 2019).”
Bottom Line? The near-prime will soon be the subprime. Demand for loans is trending up and will continue to scale rapidly. Opportunities abound for Lenders!
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FALLACY #1: Payday lenders, car title lenders, installment lenders, and all small-dollar loan lenders can earn a profit under a state-imposed 36% annual percentage rate cap.
FALLACY #2: Small-dollar loan customers should simply go to a bank rather than me. My worst critic knows that banks DO NOT WANT my customer! Banks think my customer is a giant PAIN! My customers are not comfortable inside a bank. If you’ve visited a bank lately, you know it requires an act of god to even talk with a banker. Fuhgeddaboudit!
FACT: A report by Professor Victor Stango, “…a 36 percent cap eliminates payday loans. If payday lenders earn normal profits when they charge $15 per $100 per two weeks, as the evidence suggests, they must surely lose money at $1.38 per $100 (equivalent to a 36 percent APR.)”–Economists Robert DeYoung, Ronald Mann, Donald Morgan, and Michael Strain, Federal Reserve Bank of NewYork
WRONG!
So-called consumer protectionists and competitors [think pawn shops, banks, credit unions, and lenders servicing 640+ FICO consumers via long-term, $3000+ loans] lobby hard for capping interest rates at 36%.
A 36% Annual Percentage Rate Cap in the real world =
$100 borrowed would generate $1.38 per month in interest.
That’s equivalent to $.10 per day.
A $100,000 “book” [portfolio – “money on the street,” would earn $36,000 per year in top line revenue.
In other words, $36,000 per year or $3000 per month GROSS.
The Reality?
I cannot pay my storefront rent with $3000 in monthly fee revenue with a $100,000 portfolio!
I need 2.5 employees. [How much $$$$ in wages and benefits is that in your locale?]
My average cost of capital is 12%.
Bad debt. My net chargeoffs are 18%.
My CAC is $185.
Additional line item expenses include insurance, security, underwriting, phones, utilities, licensing, state audit fees, collections, text messaging fees, and loan mngt. fees, office expenses…
Taxes.
Accounting, legal & professional fees.
Unlike credit unions, various community groups & banks, my business is NOT subsidized.
While my competitors technically provide <36% loans to a limited pool of subprime consumers, they evade the 36% APR cap by selling expensive insurance products to their customers, products that are NOT included in the loan’s APR calculation. The result? 180%+ APRs.
My customers WANT & NEED my loan products! They know my loan product is expensive. I tell them it’s expensive. The fees I charged are plastered all over the walls of my store and on my website. My team doesn’t hide our fees. EVER! There is no need.
My customers desire loans of $100 – $500. Who is going to take a chance on them? Not a bank? Not a credit union. Their friends and family, who my customer is too embarrassed to ask for a loan, are OFTEN in the same boat. Where to turn in an emergency? Food, Car repair, medicine, rent…
The Future of the Small-Dollar Micro-Lending Industry
We define small-dollar micro-lending products as relatively small loan principals of $50 to $5000 for seven days to 48 months having APRs of 30% to 1500% or more. These products include payday loans, car title loans, installment loans, line-of-credit loans, pawn, rent-to-own and similar products not yet envisioned.
Sub-prime, small-dollar micro-lending products are a normal market response to demand for short-term liquidity from borrowers with jobs but little access to other sources of funds. These financially challenged consumers lack access to credit cards, banks, and credit union funding. Their friends and family cannot help because it’s not only embarrassing to ask, but their peers are in similar circumstances.
Lenders must create a business model that:
Will survive and thrive under the current wave of competition.
Gain access to a sustainable cost of capital
Can compete with alternative loan products entering the subprime market weekly [buy-now-pay-later, early access to wages, Dave.com look-alikes, collateralized loan products…]
Can cope with new and existing regulations.
Can maintain bank relationships.
Can integrate with consumer credit-building opportunity platforms.
Anticipate consumer desires and their preferred debt vehicles
How and where consumers want to access loans
How to structure loan products
The business of lending to the masses.
Demand for subprime, micro-lending loan products continues unabated. As the middle class expands and high FICO (U.S.) consumers debase and decline into lower credit tranches, the demographic for subprime loan products will continue to scale! Study after study consistently concludes that consumers need access to quick, no-hassle, small-dollar loans to meet temporary financial emergencies.
Today’s inflationary environment drives demand for small-dollar loans as well.
My point? Defaults will soon prove to be an issue for lenders. Lenders need tools that provide instant, real-time financial data about their borrowers and applicants. Reach out immediately if you do not have access to the following instant alerts via your loan management platform:
Your customer gets paid
Your customer receives an IRS check
Your customer closes their bank account
Your customer’s bank account is negative
Your customer receives a loan from a competitor
Your customer’s job situation declines
Customer payment reminders
Ping nearly 50,000 financial institutions, including Cash App, money transfer apps, crypto apps…
And much, much more…
Why does this matter? Inflation is rising dramatically. Defaults will soar. Demand for loan products is scaling. He who can qualify, approve and fund a loan fast will win BIG in this new environment. The tool is here today. To learn more: TrihouseConsulting@gmail.com
The Internet and mobile technology continue to impact the small-dollar micro-lending industry profoundly. Consumers residing in states and provinces that do not allow payday loan products to exist routinely obtain them online. Imagine a web that isn’t focused around a computer but is everywhere, on every device, every person, accessible at every location. It’s not a place you go; it’s a layer behind everything you do.
The phone! Enough said! That’s where the action is. EVERYONE does business on their phone today!
Email is less and less likely to be opened by your customer on their desktop or laptop computers. Email “opens” in mobile devices now dominate. This is huge. Micro-lenders who are slow to adapt to this revolutionary reality will experience reductions in loan portfolio size and fail to achieve velocity.
Regulation will continue to dominate the small-dollar micro-lending landscape for the foreseeable future. In every country small-dollar micro-lending products enter the fray, they meet resistance from competitors, including banks and credit unions, so-called consumer protectionists, credit card companies, legislators, and competing Fintech platforms. Many licensing models, including choice-of-law, sovereign nation (tribe), offshore, state-by-state, and province-by-province, continue to “muddy the waters.”
On a local level, more than a few cities, townships, and counties are capping or restricting the number of payday loan financial service centers allowed. Brick-n-mortar operators must continually meet with and educate local politicians and city council members regarding their business and customers. Remind these politicians that our industry pays taxes, employs thousands of their constituents, contributes to the community, and pays leases and property taxes.
Regarding the CFPB (U.S), we have personally met with the head of the CFPB and various Asst. Directors of the CFPB. Our takeaway is that they are focused on transparency and disclosure of all fees rather than some Machiavellian legislative initiative.
International entry into small-dollar micro-lending continues. Payday loans, installment loans, car title loans, line=of-credit loans, etc., are offered in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Poland, Latvia, Mexico, Latin America, South Africa, and more. Interestingly, companies with international small-dollar micro-lending success are entering the U.S. despite the perceived regulatory climate.
Payment Processing may be the most dynamic area today for the small-dollar loan industry today. Crypto and the lightning network are already upending our sector. Signup for our free monthly Newsletter for breaking news about vendors offering state-of-the-art platforms that eliminate chargebacks, ACH fees, and deliver instant funding for pennies.
Bottom line: This is the time to be a lender to the masses. Opportunity is the word of the day. For those of us willing and able to envision what new loan products and delivery systems should look like, the “world is our oyster.”
Approximately 50% of U.S. households [PEW] cannot access $400 cash when faced with a sudden financial emergency! That’s 62,000,000 million households! 🙄 And this trend is getting worse!!
Stuff happens. The get-to-work car breaks down. You need to fill a prescription. Your bank dishonors your check to one of your utility companies. Your check bounces! You owe the bank $37. You owe your utility company for last month. They charge a late fee, a reconnection fee, and threaten to turn off your electricity, water, gas… Maybe you’re self-employed. You’re a small contractor. You got the job but you gotta make payroll 2X before the homeowner pays you. Unable to make payroll, your crew will revolt! Yada, yada, you need cash ASAP for any number of reasons. What to do?
Again, that’s the question roughly 62,5M U.S. households – and growing – face every year!
Solutions? Beg, borrow, steal from friends, family, strangers… Your credit card – if you even have one – is maxed. You’re too embarrassed to borrow from friends and family again. Plus, they are in the same boat you are. Church? Maybe.
My readers likely can’t relate to any of the above situations. But, millions of good folks face these situations every year.
So, as an entrepreneur and an investor, how do you fit into this picture? How do you serve this 50%, help them solve their money challenges, help them keep their dignity, and earn a superior ROI on your inventory: MONEY!
That’s right. MONEY! Your inventory is CASH. Not flowers that die. Vegetables that rot. Not ice cream that’s messy and melts. Not greasy mechanic shops, a franchise you must pay up 8%/month to your Franchisor. There are zero better businesses to be in than lending money to the masses.
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Many national Lenders have been transitioning to a multitude of financial loan products in an effort to continue to serve subprime borrowers while still achieving superior ROI. Witness Avant, CURO, WRLD, ENVA… You only need to refer to their latest earnings call to comprehend the extent of this transition away from single-payment products. Enova’s progeny is CASHNETUSA.com back in the late ’90s. At the time, they offered singularly payday loans having 400% – 700% APR payday loans. As per their latest Q4 earnings call, these single payment [payday loan] products made up a mere 2% of loan originations. Obviously, they see the writing on the wall.
DO YOU?
Nevada, in addition to approximately 25 other States, has Implemented a state database. This demonstrates a death knell for the single payment product!
Luckily, we Lenders have time to evolve our Loan product offerings AND, more importantly, integrate with Fintech platforms that enable us to reduce headcount, and employ artificial intelligence [AI] to acquire, underwrite, service & collect funds without the aid of human intervention; thus reducing our G & A expenses. [Examples: IOUUmpire.com for 24/7/365 debt negotiation & IWVPro.com for wages & income verification.]
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I enable my partner clients to create high-performing, user-friendly lending systems and platforms with a focus on digital lending and multi-channel delivery via both State & Tribal lending models.
I have nearly 10 years of successful experience building tribal & state-licensed online lending models as CEO, COO:
Highly competent in managing Tribal Council relationships & building infrastructure.
Skilled at capital raises.
Highly proficient at enhancing portfolio ROI’s via AI [Artificial IntelligenceI] machine learning, and transitioning storefront lenders to online lending.
Your subprime consumer borrowers are searching for you. Money lending is scaling up again. Your brick-n-mortar customers are simply not coming back. Embrace digital channels, AI, smartphones… or DIE.
Here are keyword search trends for December 2021 for Lending Money to the Masses [USA only] “Cash Advance,” “Payday Loan,” “Personal Loan,” “Title Loan,” “Car Title Loan.” Need leads? Need consulting? Reach out! Jer@theBusinessOfLending.com Our Team is ready to help! State licensed and & Tribal Model. #Consulting#Lending#Fintech
Just a quick note. Debt buyers are in a state of frenzy. Payday, installment, car title… lenders are working their bad debt longer than normal. Why? Our subprime borrowers are sitting on a ton of cash. Our collection Team is experiencing more than usual success.
As a result, bad debt buyers are paying more for our bad debt!
If you do want to unload any bad paper you’ve been working in house, let me know. I’ll connect you direct.
Meanwhile, new loan originations continue to trend up. FOMO about omicron variant potential lockdowns, inflation, record low employment, record new business formations by sole-proprietors… continue.
December is OURS!
Jer
Jer@theBusinessOfLending.com
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CURO, a publicly traded lender, originates $1 Billion dollars [+/-] in consumer loans every 3 months. They have approximately a 3% market share. What's this mean for you? OPPORTUNITY!
The near-prime will soon be the subprime. Demand for loans of $500 to $5000+ continues to escalate. Opportunities are boundless for lenders.
As a lender, your inventory is MONEY! Not tulips dying. Not bananas rotting. The 99% will ALWAYS need money. Debt is the reality of living in America.
What do we do? We teach entrepreneurs how to lend money to the Masses. We lend money. We offer Courses, consulting, investments, access to our vast network of vendors, lawyers, Instant Bank Verification, payment processors, website designers, and underwriting...
We are 100% focused on the business of lending to the masses! Installment loans, car title loans, payday loans, line of credit loans...
