“The torpedo below the waterline is an MF Global-Lehman Brothers type event.”
"What keeps me up at night is not adoption, or even regulatory uncertainty: it’s credit risk," Jason Urban, chief executive officer of Chicago-based Drawbridge Lending, said in an interview with Bloomberg. Genesis Global Trading saw its cumulative originations increase from $700,000 in March 2018 to just over $3 billion today, according to the report. "That's probably unique and why other lending desks borrow from us."Īs reported by Bloomberg News, the lending industry has ballooned to $5 billion out of nothing in the span a two short years, illustrating the desire for leverage in an industry where gains and losses are already intensified by break-neck volatility. "We don't really have a size limit," Smith said. The firm estimates it is now one of the top five crypto lenders. The business is emerging as market participants question whether there is a credit bubble pop looming in the nascent digital asset market. Fast forward to November, the firm is on-track to lend out $120 million this month - having lent, traded or borrow over a $1.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency. In August, lent out $10 million in new loans. Leveraging his global crypto connections and access to inventory, Smith said the business started off with the wallet provider lending out coins to other lending operations on a case-by-case basis. In stealth, over the past several months, Peter Smith, CEO of, has been building a lending business to go head-to-head with firms like Genesis Global Trading and BlockFi.
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