India has the largest stock of privately held gold, estimated at 20,000 to 25,000 tonnes approximately. Typically, in an Indian household, gold is held idle in lockers and vaults and only used occasionally. It’s a drag on the economy wherein crores of rupees in savings is stashed away out of the financial system. However, thanks […]
Can Computer Analytics Make Borrower Profile Assessment Safer?
Lending is a big business in India, which both, directly and indirectly, touches upon all parts of the economy and people. Apart from the banking sector, several NBFC players contribute to a major percentage of the lending business. With millions of Indians holding loans worth crores of rupees, any technology that can make life easier […]
Digital Solutions And Debt Recovery Businesses Go Hand-In-Hand
Recouping unpaid debts is not always easy. From outdated information to gaps in communication, a whole host of reasons make debt recovery a hard business to manage. Fortunately, technology and tools can smoothen most wrinkles debt recovery businesses face. How Does Digitising Help Manage Your Debt Recovery Business? A McKinsey survey found that 73% of […]
Make Your Credit Evaluation Process Smarter With Finezza
Assessing the credit-worthiness of borrowers is a key component of lending success. Accuracy and time are of the essence when assessing counterparty risk. Yet the process of assimilating and analysing borrower information in order to assign a credit score when done manually is still prone to errors. It is also time-consuming, taking days or even […]
Can OCEN Ecosystem Lead to a New Collaborative Lending Order?
After the runaway success of the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) mobile payments platform, India is moving forward with the next stage of digitising its financial services sector. The opportunities are immense but so are the challenges. Most Indian lenders have been hamstrung by a growing NPA burden and the focus has shifted to the underfunded […]
Can Account Aggregators Lead to a Customer-First Approach in Lending?
Loan, insurance, etc. require a customer to share their financial information (FI) with an organisation. Typically, they do so by printing the documents and submitting the hard copies. The method betrays the very sensitivity of the information and is time-intensive. Another technique is screen scraping. In screen scraping, the customer shares their user-id and passwords […]