# Professor Aswath Damodaran weighs in on LendingClub's relationship to Cirrix Capital

1 Faculty News May 10, 2016 ![Fortune logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031172.jpg?itok=61CxYB-R)>

Excerpt from [Fortune](http://fortune.com/2016/05/10/lendingclub-financial-crisis/) -- "The trouble comes if Cirrix buys too many of LendingClub’s loans, which is possible with Lending Club as a partial investor. 'If 80% of \[Cirrix’s\] portfolio is in LendingClub, it is very dangerous,' says [Aswath Damodaran](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/aswath-damodaran), professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. 'You become almost a quasi-bank, and you need to worry about all the things that banks do.'"

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