Yirendai Appoints Chief Credit Officer

BEIIJING, March 16, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Yirendai Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) ("Yirendai" or the "Company"), a leading online consumer finance marketplace in China, today announced the appointment of Dr. Yichuan Pei as its Chief Credit Officer.

Dr. Pei will be responsible for the overall management of Yirendai's Credit Department to ensure that the credit risk of loan portfolio on the Company's platform is within the Company's guidelines. He will also work closely with the Company's Chief Risk Officer, Ms. Yiting Pan, to manage the Risk Management Department. Ms. Yiting Pan is expected to transit from her current position as Yirendai's Chief Risk Officer into a new role with CreditEase and relocate to the U.S. in the middle of 2017 due to personal reasons. Dr. Pei will take over the full responsibilities of risk management and assume the Chief Risk Officer position at end of the transition period.

Dr. Pei brings with him over 26 years of experience in the financial industry from consumer lending risk management, credit product marketing management, asset-backed securities valuation in the United States. Prior to joining Yirendai, Dr. Pei was Vice General Manager of Ping An Bank in Shanghai, China and Chief Risk Officer of Knowledge Decision Sciences in San Jose, California. Previously, Dr. Pei served as Senior or Executive Vice President at various banks in the United States, including Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Washington Mutual Bank, Providian Financial Services, and Fleet Boston Bank. Dr. Pei graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, received a PhD from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, and awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.

"Dr. Yichuan Pei is a highly regarded credit expert with extensive experience in the financial industry. We warmly welcome him to join our senior management team. With Dr. Pei assuming his roles as Chief Credit Officer, we are very confident to further enhance our market leading capabilities of credit underwriting and risk management," said Ms. Yihan Fang, Chief Executive Officer of Yirendai. "At the same time, we would like to express our sincere appreciation to Ms. Yiting Pan for her outstanding contribution to our risk management during her tenure. We wish her all the success for the new role with CreditEase in the U.S."

"Yirendai is a leading financial technology company with proven track record and strong momentum," added Dr. Yichuan Pei. "I'm excited to join the team to contribute to its credit risk management and support its business growth."

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About Yirendai

Yirendai Ltd. (NYSE: YRD) is a leading online consumer finance marketplace in China connecting investors and individual borrowers. The Company provides an effective solution to address largely underserved investor and individual borrower demand in China through an online platform that automates key aspects of its operations to efficiently match borrowers with investors and execute loan transactions. Yirendai deploys a proprietary risk management system, which enables the Company to effectively assess the creditworthiness of borrowers, appropriately price the risks associated with borrowers, and offer quality loan investment opportunities to investors. Yirendai's online marketplace provides borrowers with quick and convenient access to consumer credit at competitive prices and investors with easy and quick access to an alternative asset class with attractive returns. For more information, please visit yirendai.investorroom.com.

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