HMY completes the closure of its legacy P2P platform
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17 October 2023
ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
HARMONEY COMPLETES THE CLOSURE OF ITS LEGACY P2P
PLATFORM
Harmoney Corp Limited (ASX:HMY) (Harmoney or the Company), a leading consumer-direct
personal lender in Australia and New Zealand, advises that it has successfully completed the
closure of its legacy retail peer-to-peer (P2P) platform.
Harmoney started its business as a P2P lending platform in 2014, having received New Zealand’s
first P2P lending licence. Following its success in New Zealand and with an outlook for strong
growth across New Zealand and Australia, Harmoney recognised a more efficient and profitable
way of operating the business through a warehouse funding model. Harmoney ceased its P2P loan
funding in March 2020, but has continued to manage the run-off of existing loan balances through
the platform.
Harmoney believes it is now the right time to close the P2P platform, with residual P2P-funded loan
balances diminished to a level where the monthly amounts being received by most lenders are
small. In recognition of this, and in appreciation for the support of the 9,861 individual P2P lenders
over the past nine years, Harmoney recently completed an accelerated payout of all remaining
retail P2P balances, including paying out all future contractual interest to the P2P lenders.
The project has been an area of focus through 1Q24, consuming some resources that would
otherwise have been directed to growth and Stellare 2.0. However, closing out the P2P platform
enables Harmoney to retire significant complexity from its technology stack and to reduce large
data storage costs arising from the fractionalisation of P2P loans. It also allows Harmoney to fully
focus on the roll out of its next generation Stellare 2.0 platform.
Commenting on the closure of its P2P platform, Harmoney’s CEO & Managing Director
David Stevens said:
“Over the past nine years, more than $960 million of lending has been funded through our P2P
platform by nearly 10,000 individual lenders who, on average, enjoyed a 11.6% realised annual
return. Having commenced transition to a warehouse funding model in 2020, and as part of our
ongoing commitment to provide an exceptional customer experience, closing out this legacy part of
the business has been an area of recent focus for us.
The closure of the P2P platform allows us to streamline our tech stack and fully focus on our highly
successful warehouse funding model, supported by three of the ‘Big 4’ Australian banks, and the
Stellare 2.0 platform which we are in process of rolling out to all our customers.”
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This release was authorised by the Board of Harmoney Corp Limited.
For queries please contact:
Corporate/Investors
Investors
David Stevens
Adrian Mulcahy
CEO & Managing Director
Investor Relations
investors@harmoney.co.nz
adrian.mulcahy@automicgroup.com.au
+61 438 630 422
ABOUT HARMONEY
Harmoney is the only 100% consumer-direct personal lender operating across Australia and New
Zealand. Harmoney provides customers with unsecured personal loans that are fast, easy, competitively
priced (using risk-adjusted interest rates) and accessed 100% online.
Harmoney’s purpose is to help people achieve their goals through financial products that are fair, friendly,
and simple to use.
Harmoney’s proprietary digital lending platform, Stellare® is the power behind the platform. Stellare® can
process, approve and fund most loan applications within 24 hours. Stellare® also replaces the traditional
industry credit scorecard with a predictive behavioural analytics engine which uses machine learning to
analyse our rich, direct consumer data to deliver automated credit decisioning and superior risk-based
pricing.
BUSINESS FUNDAMENTALS
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Harmoney provides risk based priced unsecured and secured personal loans of up to $70,000 to
consumers across Australia and NZ.
Its 100% consumer-direct model and automated loan approval system is underpinned by Harmoney’s
scalable Stellare® proprietary technology platform.
A large percentage of Harmoney’s originations come from existing customers with no customer
acquisition cost.
Harmoney is comprised of a team of ~85 full-time employees predominantly based in Auckland, New
Zealand, half of whom comprise engineering, data science and product professionals.
Harmoney has a highly diversified funding panel with warehouses being provided by three of the “Big4” banks across Australia and New Zealand. Harmoney also issued its first asset backed
securitisation in 2021, and followed up with a $200m NZ asset backed securitisation in August 2023,
both being publicly rated by Moody’s.
For further information visit https://www.harmoney.co.nz/ or https://www.harmoney.com.au/
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