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Scott Sanborn

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
99 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

All the people that are carrying a balance.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

those people don't know what their rates are.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

The research we've done is half of all customers say they don't know the interest rate on their credit cards, and the half that say they do, more than half of them are wrong.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

They think they know their rate, but they don't.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

And so cards have been able and one of the big resets with the cards was was driven by the Card Act, which limited how much cards could increase rates.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

So they factored in higher rates.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

That's right, yep.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

So first and foremost is, as I mentioned, you know, credit card, refining people out of their credit card debt into a fixed rate, lower rate loan is number one use case.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

It's about 80% of what we do.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

That market is the largest it's ever been.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

There's 1.3 trillion in credit.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

Wow.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

So that is, you know, 1.3 trillion in balances priced at really, really high rates.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

We, you know, when the rate environment shifted and the inflationary pressure shifted, we pulled back on a lot of our marketing.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

So we're currently running today at sort of below our historical volumes and

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

So we're just going back into that market, turning back on marketing channels that we had turned off.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

And then the other areas, personal loans can be used literally for anything, right?

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

And before credit cards came around and came to be, they were the dominant way consumers accessed credit for everyday needs.

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

So we have a major purchase finance business that's growing today, call it 50 plus percent year on year, that's allowing things like

Bloomberg Talks
LendingClub CEO Scott Sanborn Talks Credit & Holiday Spending

elective medical procedures, Lasix, braces for your kid, all kinds of procedure, fertility treatments, teeth implants.