Competition

Competitors describe FinVolution Group's market in their own filings and calls. These verified passages and visual pages show where their strategies meet, using source documents preserved in Sources.

Qifu Technology, Inc. (QFIN)

The largest listed Chinese credit-tech loan-facilitation platform and FinVolution's most direct scale rival — same core model of matching consumer borrowers with institutional funding partners, and the benchmark for volume, borrower reach and embedded-finance distribution.

Qifu states its cumulative loan-facilitation scale and borrower base in China — the entrenched incumbent FinVolution competes against.

As of December 31, 2024, we had cumulatively facilitated approximately RMB2,212.0 billion (US$303.0 billion) of loans to 34.4 million borrowers. As of the same date, we had 56.9 million users with approved credit lines, accumulatively.

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Qifu's reported annual facilitation volume, showing a decline across 2022–2024 — the sector-wide contraction in China's consumer-credit market that FinVolution also faces.

In 2024, we facilitated RMB322.0 billion (US$44.1 billion) of loans, representing a decrease from RMB369.1 billion in 2023 and RMB330.7 billion in 2022.

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Qifu describes its 'embedded finance' distribution — routing credit through short-video, e-commerce, ride-hailing and smartphone platforms — the traffic-partnership acquisition model that collides with FinVolution's own.

In 2020, we started cooperating with leading online platforms with heavy user traffic under "embedded finance" model. These platform partners include, among others, leading short-form video platform, e-commerce platforms, ride hailing companies and smart phone companies. In 2024, we started to explore collaborations with financial institutions to engage their existing customer bases, leveraging their proprietary traffic alongside our differentiated pricing and service capabilities to expand the breadth and depth of our user coverage.

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LexinFintech Holdings Ltd. (LX)

A direct Chinese consumer-finance rival (Fenqile/installment lending) with a large registered-user base and the same AI/big-data risk-and-facilitation model FinVolution runs, contesting the same borrowers and institutional funders.

LexinFintech states its registered-user and credit-line user base and its target demographic — the consumer-finance customer pool it contests with FinVolution.

As of December 31, 2023, the total number of our registered users reached 210 million, and users with credit line reached 42 million, among whom over 85% are aged between 23 and 40 years old and over 65% were urban working population. […] The number of our cumulative active users reached 31.1 million in 2023.

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LexinFintech's self-description as 'a leading consumer finance technology company in China' resting on AI/big-data risk management — essentially the same positioning FinVolution claims.

We are a leading consumer finance technology company in China with a decade-long operating history. Upholding financial risk management as our operational cornerstone, we strive to apply advanced technologies such as AI and big data to form an online risk assessment and management system based on quantitative decision-making.

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LexinFintech's stated institutional funding-partner count and outstanding funding balance — the bank/consumer-finance funding base both firms depend on.

We had cumulatively served over 170 funding partners as of December 31, 2024. The outstanding balance of funds provided by institutional funding partners was RMB125.6 billion and RMB114.1 billion (US$15.6 billion) respectively as of December 31, 2023 and December 31, 2024.

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X Financial (XYF)

The closest structural twin to FinVolution's China business — a personal-finance loan-facilitation platform connecting prime/near-prime borrowers with institutional funders via proprietary big-data risk technology, at comparable annual volume.

X Financial describes its model — connecting borrowers with institutional funding partners through proprietary big-data technology — nearly identical to FinVolution's loan-facilitation model.

X financial is a leading online personal finance company in China. We are committed to connecting borrowers on our platform with institutional funding partners. With proprietary big data-driven technology, we have established strategic partnerships with financial institutions across multiple areas of its business operations, enabling us to facilitate loans to prime borrowers under a robust risk assessment and control system.

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X Financial defines its target as 'prime borrowers underserved by traditional financial institutions' — the same near-prime segment FinVolution serves.

We strategically target the prime borrowers underserved by traditional financial institutions. We believe we set a high standard of credit quality by defining our borrowers as prime borrowers, who we define as an individual having sound credit history, who have credit records with PBOC CRC and usually no late payment record of over 60 days in the previous six months.

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X Financial's cumulative and annual active-borrower counts — the customer base it has built in the market FinVolution also serves.

We facilitated loans to 16,309,242 active borrowers, each of whom made at least one transaction on our platform during the period from the commencement of our loan facilitation business to December 31, 2024. The number of our active borrowers increased from 3,326,774 in 2022 to 4,495,997 in 2023 and then further increased to 5,231,887 in 2024.

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Yiren Digital Ltd. (YRD)

A direct Chinese loan-facilitation rival that also collides with FinVolution offshore — it names the Philippines (FinVolution's JuanHand market) as an expansion front — and frames the domestic market as consolidating toward a few national players.

Yiren Digital notes it is expanding financial services overseas 'such as in the Philippines,' facing regional peers — a direct collision with FinVolution's JuanHand operation there.

Meanwhile, as we expand our financial service businesses overseas, such as in the Philippines, we are facing competition from regional peers. For our insurance brokerage business, our company and the VIEs compete with other insurance brokerage companies in China. Given the overall low penetration rate of insurance services in China compared with the US and the Europe, we believe that our strategic deployment in insurance business has navigated us towards a large market with high growth potential.

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Yiren Digital's stated view that tightening regulation and rising entry barriers have thinned the field to a few national players, 'leaving more market share opportunities' — the consolidation thesis FinVolution also invokes.

For our financial services business, our company and the VIEs compete with other consumer finance marketplaces and loan facilitation platforms that were intensely competitive before the year 2018. However, as the domestic regulations on the industry evolve and entry barriers continue to increase in recent years, fewer national-level players like us remain in the market while smaller platforms cease their operations, leaving more market share opportunities for us.

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Jiayin Group Inc. (JFIN)

A direct Chinese loan-facilitation rival pursuing the same international runway as FinVolution — it established an Indonesia office to lead Southeast Asia growth, the market FinVolution serves through AdaKami.

Jiayin describes pushing beyond China into developing markets, citing its Indonesia office and Southeast Asia expansion — the same offshore strategy FinVolution runs through AdaKami.

While we operate our businesses with a focus on the China market, we have been exploring opportunities in other developing countries with a significant size of low- to mid- income population in recent years and intend to continue to expand our businesses in international markets. For example, we established our Indonesia office in 2019 to supervise our rapid development in Southeast Asia and we increased our investments in Indonesia in recent years to explore more business opportunities in local markets.

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Jiayin's reported 2024 facilitation volume and funding-partner count — its scale in the Chinese loan-facilitation market alongside FinVolution.

In 2024, we and the VIE Group facilitated an aggregate loan volume of RMB100.8 billion (US$13.8 billion), funded by 48 institutional funding partners.

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Lufax Holding Ltd (LU)

One of China's largest retail-credit and small-business-lending platforms (Ping An-affiliated). Its tilt toward small-business owners makes the consumer overlap partial, but it maps the competitive arena and runs the same guarantee-backed facilitation model FinVolution uses.

Lufax names its competitors — MYbank, WeBank, Du Xiaoman Financial and JD Technology, plus traditional banks — mapping the consumer- and small-business-credit arena FinVolution also operates in.

We face competition in the SBO financial services industry and the consumer finance industry. The SBO financial services industry and the consumer finance industry in China is becoming increasingly competitive. We compete primarily with non-traditional financial service providers such as MYbank, WeBank, Du Xiaoman Financial and JD Technology and with traditional financial institutions, such as traditional banks, which are focused on retail and SMB lending.

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