Posts Tagged ‘financial inclusion’
Vanakkam! Śubhēcchā’ō! Namaste! – The language paradigm in India’s financial inclusion journey.
With every nook and corner of India embracing the digital way of banking, further catalyzed by a raging pandemic, an interesting fact emerges. A 2019 November survey by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IMAI) and Nielsen reveals that, for the first time, rural India now has more Internet users than urban India. Although…
Continue ReadingWill OCEN be the UPI of lending?
The problem of universal access to credit seems elusive. The issues are all too familiar. Traditional players like banks and NBFCs still rely on old world methodologies (balance-sheets, collateral) with largely ‘one-size-fits-all’ credit products. These products follow a bank-centric design, and not a borrower-centric design. The fallouts are huge, as this traditional approach results in…
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