Orchard partners with Duff & Phelps for ‘seamless’ P2P valuations

Orchard Platform, which connects institutional investors with marketplace lending platforms to enable them to buy whole loans, has partnered with valuation firm Duff & Phelps. Institutional investors are increasingly turning to the asset class as the sector shifts from ‘peer-to-peer’ to an ‘institution-to-peer’ model that is soon expected to yield its first rated securitization of consumer loans.