Jiayin Group Q2 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Key Takeaways

  • Negative Sentiment: Sharp business contraction: Second-quarter transaction volume fell 74.4% year over year to RMB 9.5 billion, while net revenue declined 50.9% to RMB 636.9 million. The company reported a RMB 183.6 million net loss, compared with RMB 519.1 million in net income a year earlier.
  • Negative Sentiment: Citing regulatory tightening, cautious funding partners and an uncertain macroeconomic environment, Jiayin provided no third-quarter guidance and suspended its dividend for fiscal 2026.
  • Positive Sentiment: International operations showed momentum, with Indonesia’s business volume up 58% year over year and 10% sequentially, while Mexico increased 36% sequentially. The company plans to prioritize Southeast Asia and approach expansion into emerging regions cautiously.
  • Positive Sentiment: Jiayin highlighted progress in its technology transformation, including AI coverage across customer service, loan intake and risk management. It said risk-strategy iteration improved more than tenfold, key-scenario accuracy rose over 20%, and AI-driven efficiencies are supporting cost competitiveness.
  • Positive Sentiment: Risk indicators remained controlled despite industry stress: the 90-plus-day delinquency rate was stable at 2.21%, while cash and cash equivalents rose to RMB 504 million from RMB 43.4 million in the prior quarter, providing additional financial flexibility.
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Earnings Conference Call
Jiayin Group Q2 2026
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Operator

Good day, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Jiayin Group second quarter 2026 earnings conference call. Currently, all participants are in listen only mode. Later, we will conduct a question and answer session and instructions will follow at that time. As a reminder, we are recording today's call. If you have any objections, you may disconnect at this time. I will now turn the call over to Mr. Sam Li from Investor Relations of Jiayin Group. Please proceed.

Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone. Thank you all for joining us on today's conference call to discuss Jiayin Group's financial results for the second quarter of 2026. We released our earnings results earlier today. The press release is available on the company's website as well as from Newswire Services. On the call with me today are Mr. Yan, Dinggui, Chief Executive Officer, and Mr. Fan, Chunlin, Chief Financial Officer. Before we continue, please note that today's discussion will contain forward-looking statements made under the Safe Harbor Provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. As such, the company's actual results may be materially different from the expectations expressed today. Further information regarding these and other risks and uncertainties is included in the company's public filings with the SEC.

Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

The company does not assume any obligation to update any forward-looking statements except as required under applicable law. Also, this call includes discussions of certain non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer to our earnings release, which contains a reconciliation of the non-GAAP financial measures to GAAP financial measures. Please note that unless otherwise stated, all figures mentioned during the conference call are in Chinese renminbi. With that, let me now turn the call over to our CEO, Mr. Yan, Dinggui. Mr. Yan will deliver his remarks in Chinese, and I will follow up with corresponding English translations. Please go ahead, Mr. Yan.

Dinggui Yan
Dinggui Yan
CEO at Jiayin Group

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Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining Jiayin Group's second quarter 2026 earnings conference call.

Dinggui Yan
Dinggui Yan
CEO at Jiayin Group

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Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

According to the statistics from the People's Bank of China, the outstanding balance of short-term household consumer loans in China decreased by approximately CNY 190 billion in the second quarter compared to the end of the first quarter. As industry regulatory compliance requirements continue to take effect, influenced by isolated industry events, institutional funding partners have adopted a more cautious approach. Against this backdrop, the company proactively adapted to changes in the industry and accelerated the strategic adjustments of our business structure. During the quarter, the company achieved transaction volume of CNY 9.5 billion, representing a year-over-year decrease of approximately 74.4%. Driven by both the industry-wide contraction and our strategic adjustment, we recorded a net loss of approximately CNY 180 million for the quarter.

Dinggui Yan
Dinggui Yan
CEO at Jiayin Group

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Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

In response to impacts brought by industry-wide liquidity tightening, we proactively reduced our risk exposure and steadily mitigated existing portfolio risk, concentrating our focus on our core base of high-quality borrowers. At the same time, we intensified our collection efforts and the 30-day collection rate improved consecutively quarter-on-quarter. As of the end of the second quarter, the 90+ day Delinquency Rate stood at 2.21%, remaining stable on a sequential basis.

Dinggui Yan
Dinggui Yan
CEO at Jiayin Group

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Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

Our international business serves as a key anchor in driving our strategic transformation and structural upgrades. In the second quarter, our Indonesian partner's business volume increased by 58% year-over-year and 10% sequentially. By upgrading our risk strategy framework and advancing refined borrower segmentation. We significantly improved our customer acquisition cost efficiency and further expanded our partnership network with local financial institutions. In Mexico, business volume increased by 36% sequentially in the second quarter, with continued improvements in borrower acquisition efficiency and asset quality. To achieve our long-term vision for our overseas business, we have comprehensively upgraded both our strategy and execution team. Moving forward, we plan to continue deepening our presence in Southeast Asia as our core anchor market while taking a prudent approach to market research and expansion in emerging regions such as East Africa and Central Asia, thereby advancing our global expansion in a structured and disciplined manner.

Dinggui Yan
Dinggui Yan
CEO at Jiayin Group

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Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

Technology empowerment is a critical pillar of our strategic transformation, and we are accelerating our technology upgrades to transition from a loan facilitation service provider to a more comprehensive technology service provider. During the quarter, the company's proprietary Fuxi platform has completed the key developments in the infrastructure layer, risk management layer, and core skills deployment, covering all key operational processes throughout the credit lifecycle. Specifically, the end-to-end skill for credit assessment modeling has been implemented at scale, compressing the traditional model optimization cycle from three to five days down to a matter of hours, with risk identification accuracy metrics, including model AUC and KS scores, significantly outperforming human benchmarks. Looking ahead, we will focus on building a customer data platform tailored for financial institutions, enabling existing borrower segmentation and targeting capabilities with full integration into our automated marketing platform, establishing a standardized and scalable framework for technology service delivery.

Dinggui Yan
Dinggui Yan
CEO at Jiayin Group

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Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

In addition, AI applications have been fully embedded into the company's core operational value chain. End-to-end AI coverage has now been implemented in key operational scenarios such as customer service and loan application intake, completely replacing human agents in select functions. On the risk management front, we have developed our proprietary strategy assistance agent by combining large language models with traditional machine learning. Driving the upgrade of risk strategy development from expert modeling with manual calculation to AI-assisted expert modeling with automated machine calculation. Consequently, our risk strategy iteration efficiency has improved by more than 10-fold, and accuracy in key scenarios has increased by over 20%. Benefiting from the workforce efficiency gains brought by AI, we are actively optimizing our organizational structure. AI is evolving from a standalone tool into a systemic capability, supporting the company in maintaining operational efficiency and cost competitiveness during this period of business adjustment.

Dinggui Yan
Dinggui Yan
CEO at Jiayin Group

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Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

On the anti-fraud front, during the first half of this year, the industry experienced a rapid evolution of fraudulent and illicit activities in the industry, characterized by sophisticated disguising and masking tactics, and showed a clear trend towards organized operations, causing growing losses to institutions across the sector. To address this, we accelerated the iteration of our multimodal risk strategy system to precisely identify behavioral differences between genuine users and proxy-based fraud operations. As of the end of June, we had cumulatively blocked 176,000 malicious applications from fraudulent activities and identified and intercepted more than 264,000 high-risk repeat fraud applications, effectively intercepting fraudulent agent-initiated complaints and safeguarding the interests of institutional partners and borrowers. In light of the uncertain macroeconomic operating environment and the current strategic development priorities, the company has decided to refrain from issuing guidance for the third quarter and to suspend our dividend for this fiscal year.

Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

By maintaining flexibility in our capital allocation and operational pace, we will focus internal resources on business transformation and risk mitigation. Notably, as of the end of the second quarter, the company's cash and cash equivalents increased to CNY 504 million, providing a strong financial buffer to navigate through the industry cycle and ensure sound future development. With that, I will now turn the call over to our CFO, Mr. Fan, Chunlin. Please go ahead.

Chunlin Fan
Chunlin Fan
CFO at Jiayin Group

Thank you, Mr. Yan, and hello everyone. Thank you for joining our call today. I will now review our financial highlights for the quarter. Please note that all numbers will be in CNY and all percentage changes refer to year-over-year comparisons unless otherwise noted. As Mr. Yan noted earlier, we remained disciplined in our execution during the second quarter and delivered the transaction volume in line with our previous guidance. Transaction volume was CNY 9.5 billion, representing a decrease of 74.4% from the same period of 2025. Our net revenue was CNY 636.9 million, representing a decrease of 50.9% from the same period of 2025. Moving on to costs. Facilitation and servicing expense was CNY 549.3 million, representing an increase of 92.7% from the same period of 2025, primarily due to the increase in average outstanding loan balance for which the company provided guarantee services.

Chunlin Fan
Chunlin Fan
CFO at Jiayin Group

Allowance for uncollectible receivables, counter-assets, prepaid expenses, and other current assets and others was CNY 51.3 million, compared with CNY 32.5 million for the same period of 2025, primarily due to increased guarantee services the company provided. Sales and marketing expense was CNY 221.8 million, representing a decrease of 68.8% from the same period of 2025, primarily due to decreased borrower acquisition expenses and commission expenses. General and administrative expense was CNY 66.9 million, representing a decrease of 39.5% from the same period of 2025, primarily due to a decrease in share-based compensation. R&D expense was CNY 94.2 million, representing a decrease of 13.1% from the same period of 2025, primarily due to a decrease in share-based compensation. Non-GAAP loss from operations was CNY 225.7 million, compared with CNY 737.6 million non-GAAP income from operations in the same period of 2025.

Chunlin Fan
Chunlin Fan
CFO at Jiayin Group

Consequently, our net loss for the second quarter was CNY 183.6 million, compared with CNY 519.1 million net income in the same period of 2025. Our basic and diluted net loss per share was CNY 0.89, compared with CNY 2.46 basic and diluted net income per share in the second quarter of 2025. Basic and diluted net loss per ADS were CNY 3.56, compared with CNY 9.84 basic and diluted net income per ADS in the second quarter of 2025. Each ADS represents four Class A ordinary shares of the company. We ended this quarter with CNY 504 million in cash and cash equivalents, compared with CNY 43.4 million at the end of the previous quarter. With that, we can open the call for questions. Operator, please proceed.

Operator

Thank you. To ask a question, please press star one and one on your telephone. To cancel your request, please press star one and one again. There are no questions. I will return the call to Sam for closing remarks. Please go ahead.

Sam Li
Sam Li
Investor Relations Officer at Jiayin Group

Thank you, Operator, and thank you all for participating on today's call. We appreciate your interest and look forward to reporting to you again next quarter on our progress.

Operator

Thank you all again. This concludes the call. You may now disconnect.

Executives
    • Sam Li
      Sam Li
      Investor Relations Officer
    • Dinggui Yan
      Dinggui Yan
      CEO
    • Chunlin Fan
      Chunlin Fan
      CFO