Qifu Technology reports Q3 EPS $1.60 vs. $1.76 last year

Reports Q3 revenue $731.2M vs. $622.7M last year. Haisheng Wu, CEO and director of Qfin, commented, “Later part of the third quarter was a rather challenging period of time as we continued to adjust our operations to cope with macro uncertainties and the latest regulatory changes. We continued to see further fluctuation in overall risk levels as liquidity issues in high-risk segments caused ripple effect across the consumer finance industry, despite our effort to mitigate the risks by tightening risk standards in the middle of the quarter. We will remain prudent in our business planning as the industry settles under the new regulatory structure in the following quarters. In the first three quarters of the year, we issued nearly RMB18.9 billion ABS, an over 40% increase over the same period last year. Our blended funding cost remained at historical low despite somewhat tightening industry liquidity. Approximately 48% of the quarter-end loan balance was under the capital-light model, ICE and total technology solutions, as we continued to make necessary adjustments to our business mix to reflect the changing industry dynamic. We expect such adjustment to continue in the coming quarters as we aim to optimize our business mix under the new operating environment. As macro challenges and uncertainties persist, we will continue to try to maintain resilience of our baseline business. Meanwhile, the drastically changing environment also present us opportunities to further streamline our operations and optimize resource allocation in the near term, and capture new growth curves when industry recovers in the long run.”