What is consumer finance?

Consumer finance is not a loan platform, it refers to a financial service model that provides consumer loans to consumers at all levels.

Supplementary information:

Consumer Finance Company is a non-bank financial institution established with the approval of China Banking Insurance Regulatory Commission, which provides loans for consumers in China. For example, Gitzo Consumer Finance, Instant Consumer Finance, Zhongyuan Consumer Finance, China Post Consumer Finance and Shanxi Merchants Consumer Finance. There are Xiaoman Finance, Suning Finance, Jingdong Finance and so on. 、

Customers can apply for loans at the above-mentioned consumer finance institutions. Generally speaking, as long as they have good personal credit and sufficient repayment ability, they can successfully borrow money. In addition, some consumer finance companies cooperate with other lending platforms and can also issue loan funds as lenders.

Extended data:

1. What is consumer finance?

Consumer finance is a modern financial service model that provides consumer loans to consumers at all levels. Under the current macroeconomic situation in China, it is necessary to introduce relevant management measures in time to adapt to the trend and needs of the objective economic situation. From the perspective of financial product innovation, personal credit business is an area that traditional banks cannot fully benefit from. Establishing a professional personal consumption financial system can better serve individual residents.

Second, the supervision of consumer finance has become stricter, and the growth rate of the industry has slowed down significantly.

1. The consumer finance industry in China has reached a mature stage. According to the Report on the Development of Consumer Finance Companies in China (202 1) issued by China Banking Association, by the end of 2020, the assets of domestic consumer finance companies exceeded 500 billion yuan for the first time, up by 5. 18% year-on-year. The loan balance increased by 4.34% year on year. In contrast, in 20 19, the year-on-year growth rates of asset scale and loan balance were 28.67% and 30.5%, respectively, and the growth rate of the industry slowed down significantly.

2. At the same time, in 20021year, the supervision faced by the consumer finance industry will be further tightened. In August this year, many regulatory authorities required the consumer finance companies under their jurisdiction to control the personal loan interest rate within 24% in an all-round way, and set a transition period to make adjustments, which directly led to the compression of the profit margin of the consumer finance industry.

3. Prior to this, in response to the chaos of medical loans to the United States, in June 20021,the Internet Finance Association issued the "Initiative on Regulating Financial Products and Services Related to Medical Beauty", requiring financial institutions not to cooperate with any illegal medical beauty institutions and not to provide relevant financial products and services to any illegal medical beauty institutions. At the same time, with the implementation of the policy of "Opinions on Further Reducing Students' Homework Burden and Off-campus Training Burden in Compulsory Education Stage" issued by the General Office of the Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council in July 20021,the supervision of loans in the training field has been strengthened, and the training loans related to exam-oriented education have also been impacted, and the business has obviously shrunk.