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X Financial helps people in mainland China obtain unsecured personal loans, principally through Xiaoying Card Loan. Borrowers apply mainly through its mobile apps, and the company assesses their credit profiles and matches them with institutional funding partners. Those partners supply nearly all loan funding. Arranging loans and servicing them over their term generate most revenue: borrowers often pay guarantee companies, which pass part of their guarantee fees to X Financial, while some funding partners pay X Financial directly. The company also makes a small share of loans with its own capital through Quanbei Microcredit, earning interest and bearing the full credit risk.
The business depends on attracting borrowers who can repay and keeping institutional lenders willing to fund loans. Most active borrowers come through third-party sourcing channels. External guarantee and insurance providers protect funding partners against defaults on most outstanding loans and contribute information used in credit assessment.
Regulation limits both funding access and pricing. Commercial banks may work only with loan platforms and credit-enhancement providers on their approved whitelists, so X Financial must remain eligible. Controls on total borrowing costs also constrain the service fees it can charge. Funding partners must retain responsibility for core credit decisions and risk management rather than outsource those functions to the platform.
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Qfin competes with X Financial for Chinese consumer borrowers and institutional lenders, earning fees from financial institutions for matching borrowers, assessing credit and servicing loans. Watch the mix of its credit-driven and platform-service loan volumes to compare how it earns those fees with X Financial.
Jiayin competes with X Financial in matching Chinese consumers with institutions that fund unsecured loans, collecting most of its revenue from funding partners and cooperating guarantee companies. Its 2025 facilitated volume of RMB129.0 billion was close to X Financial’s RMB130.552 billion, making its unsecured consumer-loan volume a useful comparison.
FinVolution competes with X Financial to connect Chinese borrowers with institutional lenders, which pay for borrower introductions, credit assessment and services throughout the loan’s life. Watch its China business rather than its international expansion when comparing the market that gives both companies their loan-service fees.
Lexin competes with X Financial for Chinese consumer loans by finding borrowers, assessing credit and arranging institutional funding, while also providing credit guarantees; its services include work for financial institutions and other business partners. Watch the credit risk Lexin assumes when it assesses bank customers under its tech-empowerment model, a closer comparison with X Financial’s guarantee business than its installment shopping platform.
Yiren Digital competes with X Financial by connecting Chinese borrowers with institutional funders and earning fees for arranging, managing and guaranteeing loans; funding partners and, where applicable, guarantee companies pay its facilitation and servicing fees. Its credit-solutions revenue is the relevant comparison for X Financial, rather than its insurance-brokerage business.
Lufax competes with X Financial’s Chinese personal-loan business through unsecured retail loans and its licensed consumer-finance lender, although it also arranges substantial secured lending. Watch its unsecured and consumer-finance loan balances separately from secured loans: those are the parts that overlap with X Financial’s unsecured Xiaoying Credit Loan products.
Qfin Holdings, Inc. earningsQFIN
Qfin Holdings' report will show how Chinese consumer borrowers and institutional funders are responding to unsecured lending, the same market from which X Financial earns loan-facilitation fees.
Compare changes in Qfin's credit-driven and platform-service loan volumes; volume is the amount of loans facilitated or serviced, not revenue. If both hold up or grow, borrower demand and institutional partnerships are supporting the fee-generating market shared with X Financial. If both weaken, that market may be under pressure, but Qfin's figures alone do not prove X Financial's own volume fell.
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X Financial earns mainly from arranging unsecured loans and servicing them afterward, and this report will show whether loan growth is outpacing rising credit costs.
Read revenue growth alongside operating profit, credit-related provisions and delinquency rates. If loan-facilitation revenue and operating profit both rise without delinquencies or provisions worsening, added lending is reaching profit. If revenue grows but operating profit weakens as provisions or delinquencies rise, credit costs are absorbing the growth and the durability of loan volume becomes the question.
