Jay Levine
Analyst · Bank of America
Sure. Look I continue to be impressed by the growth of all of them. I think, as importantly, the product they offer is the exact same product that we offer. The level pay, installment loan with fixed rates that other -- are either a three or five year term, and gets the customer into debt, out of debt, puts them in a better place. So there is different reasons on average, I think the lending customer is gone, and refinance debt, versus the Springleaf customer. But all in all, I think it has been a big positive for the awareness of the installment product, and has been a net overall benefit, I think to the whole market. What I'd say is, it does seem like, I wasn't [indiscernible] [0:48:07], but a number of our -- or my partners and colleagues were. The fact that 2,000 people showed up and wanted to hear everything going on in the online space, tells you, there is nothing very hot here. We pay a lot of attention to the large numbers, that any of them make public, and what I will tell you is, when we look at various cohorts that map closer to some of the cohorts we lend to, for those that go a little bit deeper, we have been -- we look at the potential loss numbers and say, this is the customer that actually needs higher touch servicing. We are seeing much higher loss rates there, than we experience on our own, and I would say to anyone trying to embark and service, this customer says, what I would say the wisdom might do is, be careful. With the customer base its high touch. You need to understand what they go through. You look at the -- any of the press -- 70% of America is paycheck to paycheck. They are pretty frail financial and anything that happens will pose a challenge. There is very little, in most of the marketplace models today, with the ability to collect or work on a loan. They are on auto ACH, and I'd say there is real differences in model, clearly brand servicing is more expensive, but I think it has paid off well by way of performance. But we certainly are paying attention, we recognize youngers and millenials who want to borrow in a different way, and we are doing everything we can to give him the tools, but we certainly do not want to lose our own credit discipline, nor do we intend to compete with any of them, that way.