On June 23, Eastern Time, before the market opened, Jiayin Group Inc. (NASDAQ: JFIN) released its first-quarter 2026 financial report, presenting results that could be described as dismal.
The loan volume nearly halved year-over-year, with guidance for the second quarter indicating a further halving sequentially. Revenue plummeted by nearly 60% year-over-year, and the company recorded a net loss of 61.7 million yuan for the quarter, making it the only publicly listed loan facilitation platform in the U.S. to report a loss among those that have disclosed Q1 results so far.
The company's asset quality continues to deteriorate, with its M3+ delinquency rate more than doubling over the past year. Cash reserves have evaporated by over 90%, core management has experienced significant turmoil, and the funding side is also under pressure.
Furthermore, its platforms "Ni Wo Dai" and "Ji Rong Jie Kuan" are still issuing high-interest loans at 36% APR. Third-party complaints have accumulated to over 110,000, creating a dual crisis of compliance issues and operational difficulties.
On the first trading day following the earnings release, Jiayin Group shares plunged by 28.39%, as the capital market cast a pessimistic vote.
Key Financial and Operational Metrics Show Sharp Decline
Among the U.S.-listed loan facilitation platforms that have reported Q1 2026 results, Jiayin Group is the only one to record a net loss.
The financial report shows that Jiayin Group's Q1 net revenue was 757 million yuan, a sharp decline of 57.4% year-over-year. The company reported a net loss of 61.7 million yuan, compared to a profit of 540 million yuan in the same period of 2025.
Revenue from its core business—loan facilitation services—was only 460 million yuan, plummeting 68.9% year-over-year. The company attributed this to a decrease in transaction volume and adjustments to service fees. The industry widely believes that the new loan facilitation regulations implemented in October 2025, which set a 24% cap on comprehensive financing costs, are the fundamental reason for the platform's profit model being constrained.
The loan transaction volume for Q1 was approximately 19.3 billion yuan, down 45.8% year-over-year. The company's guidance for Q2 transaction volume is only 9.5 to 10.5 billion yuan, representing another halving sequentially and a year-over-year decline of over 70%. This scale of contraction is the most severe among listed loan facilitation platforms.
Management stated during the earnings communication that the company will continue to proactively reduce its online cash loan business in Q2, prioritizing asset quality over volume growth and focusing on digesting existing non-performing assets. However, continued aggressive contraction means that income from facilitation services will continue to shrink significantly. Coupled with delinquency pressures, the market generally expects the company to still struggle to return to profitability in the second quarter.
Jiayin Group's asset quality has also weakened. Data shows the company's M3+ delinquency rate has risen from 1.18% in Q1 2025 to 2.68% in Q1 2026.
Another point that cannot be ignored is cash flow. As of the end of Q1, the company's cash and cash equivalents stood at only 43.4 million yuan, compared to 540 million yuan at the end of 2024—a drop of over 90% in just over a year.
To alleviate liquidity pressure, the company mortgaged its headquarters building in Lujiazui, securing a 600 million yuan credit line. Simultaneously, it initiated layoffs in April this year, affecting approximately 30% of staff. However, despite the extreme cash flow tightness, the company maintained a high dividend payout record, distributing a total of $41.05 million in dividends in 2025, raising market questions about its capital allocation logic.
On the day of the earnings release, Jiayin Group shares closed at $2.85, a sharp drop of 28.39%. In fact, from its peak of $18.4 in June 2025 to the present, the stock has accumulated a decline of over 80%.
Management Turmoil and Funding Constraints
In tandem with the performance decline, Jiayin Group's core management team has experienced significant turbulence within just six months.
In January 2026, then-CTO Feng Yi left the company, succeeded by Wang Zhe, a former Ant Group executive, as head of technology and product. On May 15, the company announced the resignation of Chief Risk Officer Xu Yifang, with Qi Dan, a former WeBank executive, taking over. Subsequently, the company's President and Party Committee Secretary, Wang Libin, also stepped down from his core executive role.
The successive personnel changes in core positions such as technology, risk control, and president are likely related to the company's strategic adjustments or operational pressures.
At the same time, partner financial institutions are tightening their whitelists for loan facilitation and cooperation quotas.
According to media reports, some partner banks have suspended or tightened cooperation with Jiayin Group due to regulatory requirements for "localized operations" and complaint pressures. Market sources revealed that two city commercial banks in a northwestern region decided to suspend cooperation with Jiayin Group, with the real reason being excessive complaint pressure.
From 2024 to 2025, Jiayin Group disclosed the number of partner financial institutions each quarter, which remained around 70, growing to 79 by the end of 2025. However, this data was not disclosed for Q1 2026, indirectly indicating that some partner institutions have tightened or even suspended funding cooperation.
Against the backdrop of a sharp contraction in its main domestic business, Jiayin Group is attempting to find new growth points through diversified initiatives. On one hand, it is optimizing its car-backed loan business to achieve full online processing. On the other hand, it is advancing overseas operations, with loan disbursements in Indonesia growing 20% quarter-over-quarter and doubling year-over-year in Q1, and Mexico seeing 35% quarter-over-quarter growth.
However, specific data for these businesses have not been disclosed, and their scale and proportion remain very small, making it difficult to fill the huge gap left by the main business in the short term. Whether these transformation attempts can truly become new growth engines amid industry consolidation remains uncertain.
Persistent Compliance Issues and High-Interest Lending
Behind the cliff-like drop in Jiayin Group's performance, compliance issues accumulated from long-term extensive operations continue to fester.
The new loan facilitation regulations formally implemented in October 2025 clearly stipulate that all platform fees for credit enhancement services, guarantee fees, and management fees must be included in the comprehensive financing cost, setting an annualized interest rate cap of 24%. However, according to a Financial Consumer Rights Protection Report (2026) released by a research firm, Jiayin Group's "Ni Wo Dai" platform is still issuing loans with an APR (Annual Percentage Rate) as high as 36%.
Shortly before the annual Consumer Rights Day in March 2026, the National Financial Regulatory Administration specifically interviewed the operators of five platforms, including Ni Wo Dai, directly pointing out issues such as non-standard marketing, opaque disclosure of interest and fees, and non-compliant collection management. Even so, Ni Wo Dai's rectification has not been swift, and disguised "front-end interest" deductions remain common.
A user on a consumer complaint platform stated that on April 6, 2026, they applied for a 15,400 yuan personal consumption loan through Ni Wo Dai, to be repaid in 12 installments with a total repayment amount of 17,453.56 yuan. On April 9, 2026, without selection, confirmation, or separate notification, the platform, through a partner, deducted 930 yuan as a "Premium Service Fee," resulting in actual principal received of only 14,470 yuan and a real annualized interest rate as high as 38.7%.
Another user indicated that out of four loans taken in 2026, three had so-called "membership fees" deducted in advance.
To date, on one major consumer complaint platform, the total number of complaints against Ni Wo Dai and Ji Rong Jie Kuan exceeds 110,000, with 16,000 filed since 2026 alone, second only to another fintech firm. On another consumer protection platform, complaints against Ni Wo Dai - Ji Rong Jie Kuan also exceed 30,000.
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