Lending is the engine that powers the financial growth of all businesses and individuals all over the globe. As the global economies get interconnected and interdependent more every day, the need for funding has also increased enormously. The number of retail borrowers, SMEs, and business borrowers has surged multifold in the last decade. Though this […]
Fintech and Cybersecurity: How to Manage Risks in this New Financial Era
Fintechs have garnered attention in all industries including banking and capital markets, asset and wealth management, insurance, funds transfer and payments. The lending and payments sectors are expected to witness a high level of disruption with the emergence of online platforms that enable the entire lending or borrowing process, peer to peer personal loans and […]
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 From outdated information to gaps in communication, a whole host of reasons make debt recovery a hard business to manage.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 […]
Implementing Digital Borrower Onboarding Process during COVID-19
At the onset of the pandemic, factors like the dependence on physical processes and the lack of adequate infrastructure collectively brought the lending to a standstill. The lending rate touched all-time lows in the country, and the limited applications that were processed were digital pre-approved loans to very select customers. Clearly, the only way to […]
How to Build an Early Warning System for your Loan Portfolio?
Indian banks are struggling with the aftermath of bad loans and NPAs they have faced in the recent past. Following the series of deteriorating trends, the banking stability indicator worsened further due to the global economic uncertainty in 2020. Gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of Indian banks are all set to worsen to 11.3-11.6 per cent […]