Digitisation Pushing Growth in Lending Segment: Naveen Kukreja
Over the past five to seven years, the digital-payments sector has grown stupendously, transcending economic and geographical barriers. Naveen Kukreja, co-founder and chief executive officer of Paisabazaar, a digital-lending platform, talks about five drivers of growth in the lending segment in the country
March 01, 2024
Paytm's credibility to offer high quality credit to various lending partners continues to be very robust
Paytm, India’s leading mobile payments and financial services distribution company, which expands a loan distribution business for high ticket loans will add at least two more large NBFCs and one bank, Paytm's management said in an analysts call.
December 14, 2023
Paytm Continues To Do Well In Merchant Device Deployment, UPI; Analyst Says Valuation Looks Attractive, Growth Will Be Sharper
Paytm recently announced its plans to strengthen its lending business to offer higher ticket personal and merchant loans, targeting lower risk and high credit worthy customers, in partnership with large banks and NBFCs.
December 12, 2023
Fintech Ambitions
The fintech market in India is among the fastest growing ones in the world. The second most funded start-up sector in the country in 2022, fintech’s market size is estimated to reach approximately $150 billion by 2025, up from $50 billion in 2021, according to investment promotion agency Invest India. Its major sub-sectors are digital lending, payments, insurtech and wealthtech.
October 31, 2023
Blending Vastu With Paintings
A self-taught artist, she has made a lot of difference in the lives of people who believe in her work and the importance and need of vastu.
August 26, 2022
Fintechs On A Lending Cart
Realising the need for digital lending, legacy banks are collaborating with fintech companies, which are considered more nimble and less averse to risk-taking. But can it benefit fintechs, which seem to have hit the wall in the form of a seemingly less-than-credible business model?
Kamalika Ghosh - June 29, 2022
Will the MFI sector survive the acts of god and man?
It has been put through the wringer over the past decade, with each battering more damaging than the earlier one
V Keshavdev - October 09, 2020
The most expensive NBFC trusts the pandemic to separate the wheat from the chaff
Bajaj Finance has come through various crises unscathed, and the market retains its faith in it, despite some reservations
N Mahalakshmi - October 10, 2020
Investors, Sanjiv Bajaj aur COVID-19. Can their love last?
Bajaj Finance has been an investor favourite but can they put the COVID stress behind and live happily ever after
V Keshavdev - October 08, 2020
How KKR India reached a debt end
The marquee private equity firm’s strategy of lending to growth companies and risky turnarounds has backfired badly, denting its reputation as a savvy financier
Krishna Gopalan - January 24, 2020