Introducing your new statistics page

At Funding Circle we are committed to providing you with access to easy to understand loan performance information. Today marks the next phase of this commitment as we launch a new and improved statistics page, which will be updated every three months and will provide you with a clearer and more accessible view of how loans are currently performing.

Exploring your new statistics page

Alongside our global lending figures, your new statistics page is designed to allow you to easily understand three key areas of information:

• Lending – How much have investors in the UK lent to businesses?
• Returns – How are loans currently performing in the UK?
• Businesses – What kind of UK businesses are you lending to?

Providing you with the full picture of loan performance

The performance information we provide you on our statistics page uses our most up-to-date estimates, or projections. It’s important to remember that over an investment period there will always be some businesses who are unable to repay their loans. To reflect this, our projections are updated every three months using the actual performance data experienced so far. You can see an example of how this works in the chart below:

The projected return is the return we estimate loans will achieve over their lifetime. This is an annualised number and is updated every three months. It is calculated using the actual return received to date, plus the estimated return for outstanding loans that have not yet been fully repaid.

The return is shown as a range to reflect that the actual number of businesses who are unable to repay their loans could be higher or lower than estimated. As loans are repaid, the range of return shown will narrow and will be updated to reflect actual performance. Full explanations of all our statistics can be found in our definitions section on the statistics page.

Presenting you with data in a relevant format

It’s important that the data we provide continues to be presented in a way that’s relevant to investors’ needs. As part of this latest update we have withdrawn the downloadable loanbook.

While the loanbook was a useful resource for early-investors lending through Funding Circle, as the platform has grown and become popular with a broader group of investors, the number of people downloading it has fallen significantly. For example, approximately only 0.3% of investors downloaded the loanbook in the last month. It’s important that you are still able to access loan-by-loan information on the businesses you are lending to, which you can download from your Funding Circle account.

Validating our performance data

As part of our commitment to providing transparent loan information to investors, we have partnered with AltFi Data. AltFi Data are independent and well-respected industry experts with deep knowledge of online lending, and they will provide independent verification of the figures we provide to you. They will review the loan information every three months to ensure it is accurate and up to date.

If you have any questions or would like more information, please don’t hesitate to get in touch.

Enjoy lending,

The Funding Circle team