Lending Competition and Funding Collaboration

60 Pages Posted: 11 Dec 2022 Last revised: 7 Dec 2023

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Yunzhi Hu

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area

Pavel Zryumov

University of Rochester - Simon Business School

Date Written: July 26, 2024

Abstract

We examine competition and collaboration between banks and fintech firms in a market with adverse selection. Banks have cheaper funding, while fintechs have better screening technology. Our innovation is to allow the bank to lend to the fintech, i.e., to finance its competitors. This partnership lowers fintech funding costs and reduces bank competition incentives. Lenders collaborate when average borrower quality is low but compete when it’s high. While partnership funding always benefits the fintech, it increases the bank’s profits only when the average borrower quality is low and benefits the borrowers only when the average quality is high.

Keywords: fintech, lending competition, partnership funding, adverse selection, winner’s curse, financial inclusion

JEL Classification: G21, G23

Suggested Citation

Hu, Yunzhi and Zryumov, Pavel, Lending Competition and Funding Collaboration (July 26, 2024). Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise Research Paper No. 4298701, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4298701 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4298701

Yunzhi Hu

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area ( email )

Kenan-Flagler Business School
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
United States

Pavel Zryumov (Contact Author)

University of Rochester - Simon Business School ( email )

Rochester, NY 14627
United States

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