Massive Chinese Online Lending Platform With 10 Million Users Implodes, May Be Ponzi

Via Investing In Chinese Stocks blog,

An online lending platform Tang Xiaoseng was shut down by authorities over the weekend. Media warned about the company in 2016 and some have questioned whether it is a legitimate business because it offered extremely high returns to entice investors.

According to a 2016 report, the incentives could generate 75 percent annual returns.

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This is an online loan platform that claims to be a state-owned enterprise with a transaction volume of 75 billion yuan and a membership of over 10 million.

According to reports from various sources, online loan platform “Tang Xiaoxuan ran away”, “parent company gold service was investigated”, company legal person suspected “self surrender”, employees “departed”, investors could not cash out, and many other news breaking.

Investors cannot take cash

The fund monarch learned in some investors’ exchange groups that some of them invested family pension money.

Others invested hoping to save up for a home.

One homebuyer is closing on a house and their downpayment is locked up:

The maximum amount invested by the investors who reported on the scene was nearly 3 million yuan, and small investors also invested tens of thousands of yuan. “This is the money I bought for the house. The deposit for the house was paid. There are days to expire. Now the money is not available.” An investor reluctantly said, “The day before yesterday put 50,000 yuan yesterday. With 10,000 yuan, it will be able to arrive quickly, but it is not enough to withdraw it today.” Most investors’ investments are due in the near future. This is why many investors have not mentioned it before.

The transaction volume exceeds 75.0 billion yuan

According to public information, Tang Xiaojun’s operating company is Zibang Yuanda (Shanghai) Internet Financial Information Service Co., Ltd., which was established in October 2014 with a registered capital of RMB 260 million and legal person Tao Lei. The shareholders of Zibang Yuanda are Zhibang Jinfu Network Technology Group Co., Ltd. (with a shareholding ratio of 99%) and Zibang (Shanghai) Investment Management Co., Ltd. (with a shareholding of 1%).

In addition to Tang Xiaoxuan, Zibang Financial Services also has products and services such as immediate loans, Zibang Wealth, enjoyment of multiple periods, interest and interest, etc. Zhibang Jinfu is wholly-owned by Zibang (Shanghai) Investment Holdings Co., Ltd. The investment company also has two shareholders of natural persons, namely Tao Lei and Yu Yongsheng.

The specific amount of money involved by Tang Xiaoxuan is currently unknown, but it involves a wider range of investors. According to Tang Xiaoxuan’s briefing, Tang Xiaoxuan went live on May 5, 2015. In less than a year, the turnover would have broken 10 billion yuan. According to the latest data, as of August 2017, Tang Xiaoxuan has reached 10 million registered users and the transaction volume exceeded 75 billion yuan.

Tang Xiaoseng used very generous rebates to attract investors:

The rapid expansion of the transaction size had to be attributed to the long-term high rebate activities. According to the channel rebates, Tang Xiaoyi returned 100 yuan for 3 days returned 50 yuan, 13,000 yuan for 37 days, 500 yuan; 2000 yuan, 16 days, return 90 yuan. This high cost rebate has always existed.

In 2016, there was a media alert to the risk:

1. Some people have calculated that, with activity income, Tang Xiaoyi’s annualized yield of current products on the 10th can reach 75%, which is a bit scary.

2, high-yield sources difficult to explain, suspected capital pool

Tang Xiaoxuan claimed to be a P2F (personal to financial institution) model. Assets are bank-level, safe and reliable.

According to common sense, the overall interest rate for “bank level” assets will not exceed 8%. According to a recent report, the average yield of bank wealth management products has dropped to 4.29%, and financial product portfolios such as trusts, funds, asset management, banks, etc., can hardly exceed 8% at the current market rate.

3. There is not enough disclosure of product information on Tang Xiaoying, and there is no way to judge the authenticity. For example, whether a third-party borrower borrows money from Tang Xiaoxuan or whether Tang Xiaoxuan actually purchased a third-party wealth management platform product, because it could not be confirmed because it was not corroborated by the relevant contract. e renting treasure has tens of billions of dollars by way of purchasing large quantities of fictional borrowing names. Judging from the existing materials, Tang Xiaotong has a question mark as to whether there is any act of issuing fictional assets.

In addition, the latest operating data found by the Fund’s official website today shows that as of May 31, the amount of funds still to be received by Tang Xiaotong has reached 930 million yuan. It is worth noting that the data shows that Tang Xiaolian has accumulated 54,000 loans, but the number of overdue transactions is 0. The data is incredible.

Annualized returns exceed 8%, claiming to be “central state enterprise background”

Since its establishment, Tang Xiaoyi has been surrounded by doubts. Many times it was exposed to funds pool, self-financing, financing fraud, mismatches and other news. Its parent company, Jinbang, is the news of the cooperation of fake state-owned enterprises:

Tang Xiaoyu, the parent company of the company, Jinbang, in January 2017, Zibang Jinfu announced that it had won the “Ruibao Liyuan” strategy of the central company and subsequently “Ruibao Liyuan” was investigated for alleged fraudulent schemes in the online pyramid scheme. The state-owned financial service “has also run aground. At the same time, this so-called state-owned enterprise “Ruibao Liyuan” has already become a private enterprise, rather than its so-called “central enterprise,” after a series of changes in equity.

However, Tang Xiaoxuan has questioned the fact that the Chinese government has not fallen for several years. The industry believes that this may be due to the support of its offline wealth management business. It is understood that there are 41 branches in Shanghai. According to the network data, the resources of Zibang Wealth also opened in some cities such as Zhejiang and Jiangsu.

The recent Chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission, Guo Shuqing, said:

“In the fight against illegal fundraising, efforts should be made to make people realize that high-income means high risk and that the rate of return exceeding 6% will be questioned, exceeding 8%. Is very dangerous, more than 10% will be prepared to lose all of the principal.”

The Financial Times published an article discussing an impending regulatory crackdown back in April: China’s P2P lenders brace for renewed regulatory crackdown