Dennis Cong
Analyst · Richard Xu of Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open
So, in terms of net charge-off as you can see from our disclosure, the 2015 charge-off is around 10%, in 2016 it's around 8.7%. So these are still demonstrate a good performance. And as you remember or if you're looking from charts, historically, the 2016-2017, early vintages indication have demonstrated better than 2015. So we saw that as well as we are continuing to beef up our collection efforts, adding manpower and also testing out new ways of incentivize borrowers to repay and also as you know that the government has showed strong support to the industry asking all the peer-to-peer platform to report the severe delinquency borrowers list so that can be connected to the national credit reporting system, these we believe combine will also help us to drive our collection efforts and this is probably going to pan out through the next months or quarters. That will also gain confidence to us in terms of overall asset quality performance. So based on that, that's how we have decided in terms of - well, the contribution amount level for the credit assurance program. And then in terms of overall movement as you probably are very familiar with, the overall industry has seen a kind of spike late part of last year and then you see some reversion in the late part of Q1 and that has continue coming down, in Q2 that's very consistent with our observation of our asset performance and vintage performance or early innings of indications. However, there are some recent - probably in June or May and June timeframe, further uncertainties are industry volatilities that create some upswing of some asset quality performance. So that what shows in our performance stat, we were pushing our asset performance to certain level but we probably felt certain resistance in the later part of Q2 ,but we believe as we go through the compliance evaluation process the regulation environment become much more clarified, as well as the support from the government in terms of connecting to the national credit reporting system, we believe we'll see overall improvement of our asset performance, as well as some stabilization in terms of industry performance. And then from the investor volatilities or fluctuations, yes, I think for us we see some investor concerns in the mid of July after a couple of recently large scale peer-to-peer platform having issues. However, it was not significant mainly we see some request from customer, particular the customer who doesn't really have a whole lot of investment on platform for new to the industry these require some early withdrawal requirements. Given our strong liquidity situation even though we don't have legal obligation we actually from customers service perspective we accommodate that, and also as we mentioned we introduced the PICC loan product in July, which is fully guaranteed principal interest by PICC under the surety insurance program, this is well received by our investor and also some of the investor who are concerned about the industry uncertainty, would like to do early withdrawal. When we introduced this product they were very happy to switch to this product. So into August, we see things are pretty much back to normal and then so we believe this trend will probably continue through the year. Of course at the same time as we making strong efforts, continue to build our deep relationship with our individual retail investors, we’re also making effort to working with institutions, the XinWang Bank and we're also working with a couple of other reasonably large-scale banks in potential tapping into institution monies, and of course the PICC relationship and partnerships would definitely help as well in terms of how to work with these institutions. And we believe from regulatory perspective that also encouraged long-term for the imperative Fintech platform to work more closely with traditional financial institutions are really helping the overall improvement efficiency of the financing of the small business industry and consumptions in the China economy. In terms of dividend, yes, so given the uncertainties of industry volatility and potentially continue volatility through the compliance evaluation progress, we took a very prudent approach. So, we spent the dividend policy. However, as we see our business recover, as we see our earning back to normal our long-term target margin trend will probably restarted the dividend policy at due time.