China's LexinFintech Holdings Ltd. appointed two new directors, expanding the size of the board to eight from six.

The company said March 22 that it appointed Neng Wang as an independent director and Xiaoguang Wu as a director, effective March 20.

Wang is a professor of real estate at Columbia Business School and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Xiaoguang Wu currently serves as the co-founder of Welight Capital and as an adviser at Eleven Two Capital.