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Paisabazaar Goes Beyond Credit: Now Offers FDs & Bonds with Returns Up to 13.25%

Paisabazaar Goes Beyond Credit: Now Offers FDs & Bonds with Returns Up to 13.25%

Paisabazaar, India’s leading marketplace for consumer credit and a free credit score platform, today announced its foray into wealth management with the launch of fixed income instruments on its platform. The strategic initiative is a part of Paisabazaar’s long-term objective of building a diverse and holistic financial wellness platform. The Paisabazaar would now facilitate comparing and choosing Fixed Deposits and Corporate Bonds.

This move comes on the back of Paisabazaar launching PB Money – a personal finance management platform built on the Account Aggregator framework, along with other data integrations designed to provide consumers with holistic insights and advise, to help them build stronger financial health.

Now with the launch of fixed income instruments, Paisabazaar offers retail investors a seamless digital experience while accessing a wide suite of secure and high-return fixed income offerings, all from a single platform.

Santosh Agarwal, CEO, Paisabazaar
Santosh Agarwal, CEO of Paisabazaar 

“At Paisabazaar, our vision is to build a platform that caters to the diverse financial needs of our consumers through a wide product suite. With the launch of fixed income instruments, we are offering our consumers a comprehensive range of investment options, through simple and transparent digital processes. Our objective is to be a lifelong financial partner for our consumers by helping meet all their borrowing, saving and financial wellbeing needs," Santosh Agarwal, CEO, Paisabazaar, said.

Consumers on the Paisabazaar App can check, compare and book from a range of Fixed Deposits (FDs), which includes Bajaj Finance, Suryoday Bank, Shivalik SF Bank, Slice SF Bank, Utkarsh SF Bank, Shriram Finance, and South Indian Bank. The entire investment journey on Paisabazaar is fully digital and seamless.

Corporate Bonds offer potential returns of up to 13.25%, and interest payouts on a monthly or quarterly basis. The minimum investment amount starts at just ₹1,000, making this an accessible option for a wide set of retail consumers. Corporate Bonds on Paisabazaar are powered by Grip Invest, a SEBI-regulated platform.

Consumers through the Paisabazaar platform can choose bonds based on parameters like Yield, Credit Rating, and Investment Amount. For investors seeking diversification and higher returns, Paisabazaar also offers personalized advice, curated and vetted by SEBI-registered analysts, enabling consumers to invest in a basket of securities aligned to specific investment themes.

Paisabazaar says, as part of its long-term strategy, it would continue to scale unsecured lending and build a robust secured lending portfolio, while parallelly expanding into savings and investment solutions and deepening its collections and risk management capabilities.

“This approach strengthens customer lifetime value, deepens engagement, and creates a resilient and diversified business model. A key focus is addressing the needs of ‘New-to-Credit’ (NTC) and underserved segments, many of whom remain outside formal credit systems. Leveraging technology, data analytics, and deep consumer understanding, we are responsibly bringing millions into the financial mainstream,” Santosh Agarwal added.

Paisabazaar, a part of PB Fintech (listed since 2021), is India’s largest marketplace for consumer credit and free credit score. Over the last 11 years, Paisabazaar has earned the trust of over 50 million consumers and it handles 20 lakh+ monthly enquiries from 1000+ cities. Paisabazaar has built 65+ partnerships withBanks, NBFCs, and fintechs to offer a broad range of credit products. Paisabazaar is ISO (27001:2013) and PCI DSS certified organisation, with industry-best controls, to safeguard the best interest of consumers.

Paisabazaar.com Takes its Credit Awareness Initiative Deeper into India, Launches Free Credit Report in 3 Regional Languages

  • Paisabazaar is the only financial player in India to offer free credit report in regional languages to consumers
  • Today, Consumers can read and download their free credit report from the Paisabazaar platform (web and App) in 5 languages
  • In its mission to ease access to credit for Bharat, the fintech plans to introduce its free credit score initiative in all major regional languages
After becoming the country's first financial entity to launch free credit score in Hindi last year, Paisabazaar.com, India's largest digital marketplace for lending products, announced today it has introduced its credit report initiative in three regional languages. Consumers can now read and download their free place to get credit report online from Paisabazaar in Marathi, Telugu and Kannada, in addition to English and Hindi.

A customer survey last year conducted by Paisabazaar.com revealed that over 60% of customers preferred to have the option of reading their credit reports in their regional language, along with English. Paisabazaar.com began offering free credit reports in Hindi in December 2019 to become the country's only financial entity to offer credit report in a regional language.

Naveen Kukreja, CEO & Co-founder, Paisabazaar.com, said, "Over the years, conversations with customers and data have indicated a clear and dire need of deeper awareness around credit score. Introduction of the credit report in Hindi last year was a step in that direction and we have witnessed a tremendous response. We now want to take this initiative deeper across diverse geographies."

Paisabazaar.com says the introduction of credit score in three new languages should help a large portion of 36% of its credit score customers coming from the states of Maharashtra, Karnataka, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, plus other Marathi, Telugu and Kannada speakers, residing in other states. Over 10 crore people in India reportedly access the Internet in Marathi, Telugu and Kannada.

Also, according to the RBI data, Maharashtra tops the states in terms of outstanding credit and number of loan accounts with the scheduled commercial banks. The top 10 states also include Karnataka (4th), Telangana (6th) and Andhra Pradesh (9th).

However, only 42% of Paisabazaar.com customers who have checked their credit report from these 4 states on Paisabazaar.com are credit healthy, which means more than half of them would find it challenging to be approved for any lending product, especially in the current scenario when most banks and financial institutions are conservative in issuing any new loans, due to the widespread disruptions in incomes and the economic slowdown.

Paisabazaar.com plans to closely work with all its bureau partners and innovate to advocate responsible credit behaviour, and steadily increase India's extremely low credit penetration ratio.

Ashish Singhal, Managing Director, Experian Credit Information Company of India, said, "At Experian, we are committed to enabling financial inclusion to not only help consumers build creditworthiness, but to get better access to credit. Low awareness of credit score and factors that influence it can limit one's ability to borrow. Paisabazaar.com's initiative to leverage regional languages to deepen credit awareness puts consumers in control by staying on top of their credit report and building it over time to ensure easy access at the time of need."

In February this year, close to 9 lakh loan or credit card enquiries were made by Paisabazaar.com customers from Maharashtra, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana alone, bureau data shows. Paisabazaar.com says its data indicates 32% of the pre-COVID volumes of enquiries for loans and credit cards is now back in these 4 states. However, a poor credit score can be a major roadblock for consumers today looking for a loan.

Radhika Binani, Chief Product Officer, Paisabazaar.com, said, "Over the short to medium term, lending will be restricted to customers with steady income and strong credit profiles due to the pandemic. In this situation, tracking and maintaining a strong credit score becomes critical. Our aim is to raise awareness and inculcate good credit behaviour that should go a long way in meeting immediate credit needs and fulfilling important life goals."

Paisabazaar.com has been offering free credit score to customers on its platform since 2017 and over the years, it says, there has been a sharp rise in customers from outside the top metros visiting their platform to access credit products. Today, customers from over 1200 cities and towns enquire about a lending product every month on Paisabazaar.com.

With India's Internet penetration reaching ~650 million, Paisabazaar.com says it wants to take its consumer education initiative on credit score into Tier 2 & 3 cities, across India. Over the next 12-18 months, it plans to introduce its free credit score initiative in every major regional language.

Nanaiah Kalengada, Managing Director & Country Head - India & ME, Equifax, said, "Equifax is at the forefront of delivering credit literacy to all with our purpose statement being 'Helping people live their financial best'. By building the credit score product in regional languages, Paisabazaar.com is not only promoting credit awareness and financial literacy but also offering a wider choice and enhanced experience to the consumers India."

According to Paisabazaar.com, by offering access to relevant information in preferred languages would not just build familiarity with formal financial products but also, help increase the purchase of financial products through the more convenient and transparent digital medium.

Paisabazaar.com under its credit awareness initiative has been strongly focussing on voice, vernacular and videos to provide an enhanced customer experience on its platform. The fintech's free credit score product is available on voice-based platforms like Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, along with WhatsApp, enabling seamless tracking of credit score. It also runs a credit advisory service which helps customers build a high credit score through customized advice and recommendations from its team of credit experts.

Paisabazaar.com Launches 'Paisabazaar Stack' - To Offer Completely Digital Lending Solutions

The Fintech has built a stack of capabilities that facilitates end-to-end digital solutions for loans & credit cards

The Digitization Stack includes KYC verification, income & employer validation, repayment and agreement set-up - all done completely digitally

Paisabazaar.com has integrated its Stack already with IndusInd Bank to offer a completely digital process for credit cards

Paisabazaar.com, India's largest digital marketplace for lending products, announced today the launch 'Paisabazaar Stack' - a Stack of capabilities that would make loan disbursals and credit card issuance completely digital. The Stack, through integrations with bank and NBFC partners, would enable consumers on the Paisabazaar platform to access credit products through presence-less and contactless processes.

Under the Digitization Stack, Paisabazaar.com has built completely digital solutions for KYC verification, income and employment validation, repayment set-up and consent on loan agreement.

Paisabazaar.com is currently partnering with IndusInd Bank to offer customers on its platform a completely digital process for credit cards, using Paisabazaar Stack.

Mr. Soumitra Sen, Country Head, Consumer Banking, IndusInd Bank, said, "At IndusInd Bank, our focus has always been on offering fast and seamless financial solutions to our customers. In keeping with this vision, we are happy to partner with Paisabazaar to bring forth a comprehensive digital infrastructure platform which enables customers to undertake a host of activities such as KYC verification, income and employment validation, consent on loan agreement among others, in a fully digital manner, without having to visit a bank branch. The journey is jointly managed by the Bank along with Paisabazaar and is powered by 'Paisabazaar Stack'; making it frictionless and seamless."

Mr. Naveen Kukreja, CEO & Co-founder, Paisabazaar.com, said, "As the market leader with partnerships with most large banks and new-age lenders, we believe Paisabazaar.com is uniquely placed to accelerate this critical shift towards the much-needed digitization of the entire ecosystem. I believe our Digitization Stack is a big step in that direction."

According to Paisabazaar.com, with its Stack, a large section of customers would be able to access credit much quicker, from the comfort of their homes, with zero physical interaction as each erstwhile physical step in the lending process has now been built digitally. From an earlier 3 to 7-day disbursal time, Paisabazaar today, through its Digital Stack integrations with partners, can help provide unsecured loans within 3-5 hours.

[caption id="attachment_149855" align="aligncenter" width="580"] Paisabazaar.com - Paisabazaar Stack[/caption]

KYC Verification

Paisabazaar.com has built a Digital KYC Module in its Digital Stack which includes Offline KYC verification or O-KYC (automated XML Parsing) and the subsequent Video KYC enablement, which comprises video chat, liveliness check and face match with a bank official and location tagging.

Customers would also be able to seamlessly upload their digital copies of their KYC documents like Aadhaar, PAN, Voter's id etc. with security and authenticity checks put in place through real-time OCR verification, selfie photo match and documentation check with the source, like NSDL for PAN.

Income & Employment Validation

Accelerating the lending process significantly, Paisabazaar.com can now validate income and employment details of consumers applying for a loan on its platform seamlessly. Through the Stack, the fintech can evaluate and do a thorough analysis of an applicant's bank statements to determine his financial health and provide the results to its lending partners, which helps in quicker decisioning.

Also, instead of sending self-attested bank statements and salary slips physically, customers would now be able to provide their proof of income to Paisabazaar digitally. Paisabazaar would then check and verify the employment details provided by the customer in a digitized manner, through official email verification, Mobile and UAN validation, EPFO data validation and Employer plus Domain Check.

Repayment Set-up & Agreements

With the deployment of the Digitization Stack, it would require minimum effort from the lenders and fast-track the NACH process, as Paisabazaar.com would be able to verify the bank account details and set up repayment instructions through digital mandate on behalf of its partner lenders. A pre-filled digital agreement would be used to take customer consent through Clickwrap or OTP and live location data capture.

As lending, traditionally, has been predominantly dependent on offline and paper-heavy processes which needed physical interaction between the borrower and the lender, the industry was severely affected by the pandemic and lockdown, especially for the first two months, after the heath crisis broke out.

Mr. Gaurav Aggarwal, Director & Head of Unsecured Loans, Paisabazaar.com, said, "Till now, processes were not only cumbersome and time-consuming, but also susceptible to restrictions on physical movement or interactions. We have focussed now to build infrastructure to make the journey completely digital and convenient for current times."

Paisabazaar.com - Advantage of using Paisabazaar Stack

Paisabazaar.com works with over 130 partners to offer all types of lending products on its platform to cater to the credit enquiries from over 1200 cities and towns every month. The fintech is currently working with several Banks and NBFCs to integrate its Stack and offer a wider choice of completely digital credit products on the Paisabazaar platform.

Mr. Mukesh Sharma, CTO, Paisabazaar.com, said, "As a marketplace, the basic premise of making the Digitization Stack was to make it easily configurable for our partners and have the ability to take it live and scale it very quickly with them. Not only is completely safe and secure but is also built for seamless integration with our partners."

Paisabazaar.com is India's only independent digital player to reach an annualized loan disbursal of Rs. 12,000 crore or USD 1.5 billion. The fintech in pre-COVID times was ~2% of the unsecured lending market and believes digitization would accelerate its progress in reaching its goal of 10% of the unsecured loans market.

Policybazaar and Paisabazaar Forays into UAE; Appoints Neeraj Gupta as CEO of Policybazaar.ae

Gurgaon-based ETechAces Marketing and Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (“Policybazaar Group”), the parent company of India’s leading insurtech brand, Policybazaar.com and India’s leading lending marketplace, Paisabazaar.com and newly launched healthtech platform, docprime.com, has now forayed into the UAE market, with the launch of its new venture, Policybazaar.ae, an online financial products marketplace, that would list insurance and lending products on its platform, to begin with.

With Policybazaar.ae, it marks Policybazaar Group's first overseas venture as an online financial products marketplace, aimed at becoming a one-stop shop for consumers personal finance needs in the UAE market. Policybazaar.ae currently partners with more than 10 partners across lending and insurance categories with 50+ products on offer.

The international expansion marks a milestone moment in the decade-old journey of Policybazaar Group that has shortlisted Dubai to serve as a hub for the UAE operations. The group has appointed Neeraj Gupta as the CEO for its new venture, Policybazaar.ae, in an elevation from his earlier role at the group of leading the motor insurance business for the flagship brand, Policybazaar.com.

The new international set up was initiated in March earlier this year, and has sold over 2,000 policies and underwritten premium worth INR 6 crore (AED 3 million) through its partnership with 10+ insurance partners in the region, during its beta phase.

Commenting on the launch, Yashish Dahiya, Co-founder & CEO, Policybazaar Group, said, “We have been at the forefront of initiating the change in the way India consumes financial products, and the foray into the international market is a momentous occasion for us. Our expansion into the UAE market is based on the same philosophy of developing a strong tech-based platform that makes consumers the king in their ability to choose a gamut of financial products."

[caption id="attachment_126306" align="alignright" width="273"] Neeraj Gupta, CEO, Policybazaar.ae[/caption]Delighted with the official launch of operations, Neeraj Gupta, CEO, Policybazaar.ae, said, "We are very confident of replicating our success of the India market in this region. The initial business numbers have been very encouraging, and above of what our expectations were. We plan to further build on this start of our beta phase, by creating a strong product line for our consumers, as our platform is now fairly stable and evolved."

With Policybazaar.ae, PolicyBazaar Group intends to become a one-stop shop for consumer's personal finance needs in the UAE region. Over the next three years, Policybazaar.ae is looking to build an extensive network of local banking and insurance partners, and underwrite premium worth INR 500 crore (AED 250 million) from the region.

The initial products listed on the platform include motor insurance, travel insurance and soon will have life insurance and lending products added to its product line.

ETechAces is the parent company that holds India’s leading insurtech brand, PolicyBazaar.com, India’s leading lending marketplace, PaisaBazaar.com and newly launched health tech platform, docprime.com. The company has backing from a host of investors including the likes of Softbank, Temasek, Tiger Global Management, True North, InfoEdge (Naukri.com), Premji Invest, besides investments from other PE funds and family offices.

The group's flagship brand, PolicyBazaar.com started with a purpose to educate people on insurance products and has had a significant influence on how insurance is bought in India. It has helped in driving penetration of pure life insurance, health insurance, and such products which were barely bought earlier.

From receiving traffic of 180,000 visitors in 2008, PolicyBazaar.com has come a long way and today hosts over 100 million visitors yearly and records sale of nearly 300,000 transactions a month. Currently, PolicyBazaar.com accounts for nearly 25% of India’s life cover, and over 7% of India’s retail health business. It accounts for roughly half of all internet based insurance purchase in the country and is more than doubling annually.

In 2014, Policybazaar group started PaisaBazaar.com, an online financial marketplace for investment and lending products. Today, Paisabazaar.com is India’s largest online financial marketplace for loans and credit cards. It currently partners with more than 75 partners across lending and investment categories with 300+ products on offer. Since its inception in early 2014, the company has marked a staggering growth, and today disburses loans worth Rs. 360 crore in a month to more than 450 cities and towns.

We have received several accolades in India and globally. The most noteworthy being recognized as India’s top and world’s leading “Fin Tech Innovator” by the Global consultancy firm, KPMG and venture capital fund, H2 Ventures for 2015 & 2016. In fact, the brand has won a range of awards in the last couple of years, many of them consecutively. These include The Financial Express “Best Fintech Marketplace”, Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) Digital India Award for “Best Financial Website”, “Most Innovating Insurance Service”, IDC Iconic Award for “Tech Implementation leading to Operational Excellence”, to name a few.

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Policybazaar and Paisabazaar Forays into UAE; Appoints Neeraj Gupta as CEO of Policybazaar.ae

Gurgaon-based ETechAces Marketing and Consulting Pvt. Ltd. (“Policybazaar Group”), the parent company of India’s leading insurtech brand, Policybazaar.com and India’s leading lending marketplace, Paisabazaar.com and newly launched healthtech platform, docprime.com, has now forayed into the UAE market, with the launch of its new venture, Policybazaar.ae, an online financial products marketplace, that would list insurance and lending products on its platform, to begin with.

With Policybazaar.ae, it marks Policybazaar Group's first overseas venture as an online financial products marketplace, aimed at becoming a one-stop shop for consumers personal finance needs in the UAE market. Policybazaar.ae currently partners with more than 10 partners across lending and insurance categories with 50+ products on offer.

The international expansion marks a milestone moment in the decade-old journey of Policybazaar Group that has shortlisted Dubai to serve as a hub for the UAE operations. The group has appointed Neeraj Gupta as the CEO for its new venture, Policybazaar.ae, in an elevation from his earlier role at the group of leading the motor insurance business for the flagship brand, Policybazaar.com.

The new international set up was initiated in March earlier this year, and has sold over 2,000 policies and underwritten premium worth INR 6 crore (AED 3 million) through its partnership with 10+ insurance partners in the region, during its beta phase.

Commenting on the launch, Yashish Dahiya, Co-founder & CEO, Policybazaar Group, said, “We have been at the forefront of initiating the change in the way India consumes financial products, and the foray into the international market is a momentous occasion for us. Our expansion into the UAE market is based on the same philosophy of developing a strong tech-based platform that makes consumers the king in their ability to choose a gamut of financial products."

[caption id="attachment_126306" align="alignright" width="273"] Neeraj Gupta, CEO, Policybazaar.ae[/caption]Delighted with the official launch of operations, Neeraj Gupta, CEO, Policybazaar.ae, said, "We are very confident of replicating our success of the India market in this region. The initial business numbers have been very encouraging, and above of what our expectations were. We plan to further build on this start of our beta phase, by creating a strong product line for our consumers, as our platform is now fairly stable and evolved."

With Policybazaar.ae, PolicyBazaar Group intends to become a one-stop shop for consumer's personal finance needs in the UAE region. Over the next three years, Policybazaar.ae is looking to build an extensive network of local banking and insurance partners, and underwrite premium worth INR 500 crore (AED 250 million) from the region.

The initial products listed on the platform include motor insurance, travel insurance and soon will have life insurance and lending products added to its product line.

ETechAces is the parent company that holds India’s leading insurtech brand, PolicyBazaar.com, India’s leading lending marketplace, PaisaBazaar.com and newly launched health tech platform, docprime.com. The company has backing from a host of investors including the likes of Softbank, Temasek, Tiger Global Management, True North, InfoEdge (Naukri.com), Premji Invest, besides investments from other PE funds and family offices.

The group's flagship brand, PolicyBazaar.com started with a purpose to educate people on insurance products and has had a significant influence on how insurance is bought in India. It has helped in driving penetration of pure life insurance, health insurance, and such products which were barely bought earlier.

From receiving traffic of 180,000 visitors in 2008, PolicyBazaar.com has come a long way and today hosts over 100 million visitors yearly and records sale of nearly 300,000 transactions a month. Currently, PolicyBazaar.com accounts for nearly 25% of India’s life cover, and over 7% of India’s retail health business. It accounts for roughly half of all internet based insurance purchase in the country and is more than doubling annually.

In 2014, Policybazaar group started PaisaBazaar.com, an online financial marketplace for investment and lending products. Today, Paisabazaar.com is India’s largest online financial marketplace for loans and credit cards. It currently partners with more than 75 partners across lending and investment categories with 300+ products on offer. Since its inception in early 2014, the company has marked a staggering growth, and today disburses loans worth Rs. 360 crore in a month to more than 450 cities and towns.

We have received several accolades in India and globally. The most noteworthy being recognized as India’s top and world’s leading “Fin Tech Innovator” by the Global consultancy firm, KPMG and venture capital fund, H2 Ventures for 2015 & 2016. In fact, the brand has won a range of awards in the last couple of years, many of them consecutively. These include The Financial Express “Best Fintech Marketplace”, Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) Digital India Award for “Best Financial Website”, “Most Innovating Insurance Service”, IDC Iconic Award for “Tech Implementation leading to Operational Excellence”, to name a few.

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Paisabazaar Raises ₹200 Crore from Its Parent Company

Paisabazaar, an online portal & mobile app for comparing financial products, has raised around ₹200 crore from its parent company EtechAces, which also runs insurance products aggregator Policybazaar.

Naveen Kukreja, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Paisabazaar, told BusinessLine that the funds will be used to scale up the lending business by tripling the loan amount from ₹360 crore every month last year to ₹1,000 crore per month in 2018.

The company will also invest a part of the amount in brand-building exercises to become a go-to platform for all financial products — excluding insurance, which is handled by its sister arm Policybazaar — and also invest in technology, data analytics and machine learning.

The above news was first reported in The Hindu Business Line.

Founded in early 2014 Naveen Kukreja, Paisabazaar is headquartered in Gurgaon and India's largest online destination for all kinds of loans, credit cards, and other financial products. Since its inception the company has marked a staggering growth in terms widening its customer base to almost half a million customers.

“We are quite optimistic about the growth of unsecured loans in the Indian market this year. We have a strong loan book in the business and personal loan — ₹260 crore from the total monthly loan disbursal of ₹360 crore.

“We expect this to grow further on the back of smartphone and internet penetration, and digitisation of the KYC process because of Aadhaar,” Kukreja said.

Notably, Paisabazaar is a venture spun out of Policybazaar, an online insurance products comparison site founded in 2008, and Policybazaar has till raised about $146 million in six separate funding rounds. The backers of the company includes Tiger Global, PremjiInvest, Steadview Capital and IDG Ventures, among others.

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