Portrait of Jordan Leventhal, Consumer Credit Markets Analyst at compareloanapps.com
Consumer Credit Markets Analyst

Jordan Leventhal

Jordan does the math. APR derivations on tip-based and subscription-based advance products, fintech unit economics, funding-speed fee arithmetic - if a number shows up on this site that wasn’t copied off a lender’s marketing page, Jordan probably calculated it.

Covers: APR analysis, pricing models, fintech business models, regulatory trends Based in: Chicago, IL

About Jordan

Jordan came to consumer-credit writing by way of credit-union analytics. Before compareloanapps.com he spent most of a decade building unit-economics models for mid-sized cooperative lenders, which is a generous way of saying he is the person on the team who reaches for a spreadsheet first. That habit shows up in his articles.

His reporting focus is the gap between how a product’s marketing describes the cost (“optional tip”, “subscription”, “Lightning Speed fee”) and how the cost actually annualizes under realistic usage. That gap is often the entire story.

Approach

Every pricing claim in Jordan’s work carries a transparent calculation the reader can reproduce: principal, total paid, days elapsed, resulting APR. No black-box “our analysis shows”. Where a lender’s public disclosure is incomplete, Jordan flags the gap rather than plugging it with invented numbers.

He is also the editor who fact-checks APR ranges across the ranked comparison page every refresh.

What Jordan does not cover

Product tutorials (“here is how to sign up for Brigit”) and state-law deep-dives live with other editors. Jordan’s lane is the economics and the math.

Articles by Jordan

More Jordan analyses will land here as they publish. Browse the full Money IQ library or the ranked comparison (whose APR ranges he double-checks).

Reach Jordan
Spotted an APR or cost calc that looks off? Email via the contact form with “For Jordan” in the subject. He prefers the numbers in your message.