TrueTerm
Investor · Second Look book (off ABS tape)
$1,500 cap · 33.99% · higher PIFC
Second Look is a different loan. It is booked that way.
This book is not mixed into the standard tape a warehouse or ABS desk will compare to other unsecured consumer deals.
It exists so Dual Look can still be a hand up — without contaminating the credit box.
Military Lending Act: MAPR cap is 36% (interest + most fees).
Second Look contract APR is 33.99% with $0 origination — 201 bps of MAPR headroom.
We do not price to the 36% wall.
Who enters (per 100 apps):
auto-declines 22 (BK, DTI, LTV, new account, velocity) + subprime 18 — reviewed through ClearAsk
(why they need the money, what changed, what makes repayment possible)
+ 8 standard-box declines who request a second look.
48 reviewed → 12 approved (25%).
Who we actually approve in the 48 (account-based, not a flat rate)
| Source in the Second Look queue |
Reviewed |
Approved |
AR |
Why |
| Auto-decline (BK, DTI, LTV, new account, flags) |
22 |
3 |
14% |
Hard flags (BK, fraud, stacking) stay no. Soft flags (DTI, new account, leverage) get ClearAsk + bank cash-flow. |
| Subprime ≤600 |
18 |
5 |
28% |
Account-based UW: income, residual, why the money. In the 20–40% cash-flow second-look band. |
| Standard decline who requested it |
8 |
4 |
50% |
Already near the box. Bank data can swap a near-miss into a small first note. |
| Second Look total |
48 |
12 |
25% |
At least 15% of the queue; 25% blended. 12 of every 100 apps. $1,500 cap. |
Unit — smaller first note, they prove they can pay
$1,500Second Look cap · first booking at or below ask
24 monthsShorter term · ATR first
33.99%Contract APR · MAPR-aware
$206PIFC if they finish (35% of interest)
28.5%Effective APR after PIFC
15%Plan 24-mo LLR · smaller advance
Loss defense is size, not a 36% mill: we often book less than they asked.
More credit later is proprietary underwriting after they demonstrate payment — not a promised ladder, not on this tape.
Payment on the $1,500 / 24 mo unit is $86.98.
Why PIFC is higher here
Standard give-back is 20% of interest (~$177). Second Look is 35% of interest (~$206 on $1,500 / 24 mo) —
a larger share of interest so the smaller loan still ends with a real asset.
After PIFC they still paid a real price (28.5%). Still far below OppLoans 99–195% and payday ~391%.
|
Standard box |
Second Look |
| Tape / facility |
Yes — benchmarkable |
No — held & reported apart |
| Who |
NP / prime / super-prime |
ClearAsk review of flags + ≤600 + requested declines |
| Yeses per 100 apps |
39 |
12 |
| Avg loan / term |
$3,269 / 36 mo |
$1,500 cap / 24 mo |
| Contract APR |
16.23% $ wtd |
33.99% |
| PIFC % of interest |
20% |
35% |
| PIFC $ if complete |
~$177 |
$206 |
| APR after PIFC |
14.7% $ wtd |
28.5% |
| Lifetime LLR (plan) |
6.7% |
15% |
| Net / loan before OpEx (CoF $0) |
~$150k / $1M book |
$144 / loan · ~$1.7k on 12 loans |
ClearAsk · no mods · loan enhancement
- Why this amount, this week — and we may approve less than asked so they prove payment.
- Temporary shock (layoff, medical, divorce) vs chronic over-obligation. ATR still wins at 33.99%.
- We never modify a loan. If the relationship changes, we pay off the current note and book a new loan.
- That new loan is a loan enhancement. Last three digits of the ID are
000 (original) or 001+ (paid off a prior TrueTerm loan).
- Enhancement never has worse terms than the loan it retires. About 90% of the time it is more principal after payoff. Rate cuts only if market rates fall sharply — proprietary, not a promise.
- If a current customer simply asks for another loan, it is a new application. UW sees they are on book and decides: decline, wait, or enhancement. No stacking two open notes.
- More size after the $1,500 cap is that later new loan — not a rewrite of the first one.
Per 100 applications this is an $18,000 side book (12 × $1,500) next to ~$127,500 of standard originations.
Small on purpose. Subsequent credit after demonstrated payment is proprietary UW and is not in the facility model.
If this book ever mattered to a warehouse, it would be a separate pool, separate advance, separate loss trigger.