Impacts of Venture Capital on Online P2P Lending Platforms: Empirical Evidence from China

We examined the impacts of venture capital investment (VCI) on the performance of online Peer-to-Peer (P2P) lending platforms. The research results show that: (1) Gaining the first round of VCI can increase the transaction scale and improve the compliance with regulatory requirement of the online P2P lending platforms; and (2) the platforms acquiring more rounds of VCI have greater turnover. The above research shows that under the background of...