Paisabazaar.com, India's largest online marketplace for lending products, announced today that it has disbursed Rs. 5000 crore of unsecured loans through its platform.
"While we have witnessed strong growth, particularly in the unsecured loan segment, and have been the market leaders for the last 18 months, even at such large volumes we are only around 2% of India's unsecured lending market today. We are planning to disburse unsecured loans worth USD 1 billion in the next 12 months. Our aim is to reach 10% of the unsecured loan market in the next 3 to 4 years," said Naveen Kukreja, CEO and Co-founder, Paisabazaar.com.
88% of the unsecured loans sourced through Paisabazaar.com were disbursed to salaried professionals.
In terms of distribution, the platform's reach has expanded by 10X in the last one year, with loan enquires coming from over 1000 cities and towns every month. Disbursals to the Top 10 metros, however, take up 70% of the share in the Rs. 5000 crore of unsecured loan disbursals through Paisabazaar.com. The next 30 cities account for 12% of the disbursal share.
"Government initiatives like IndiaStack and the phenomenal rise in connected smartphone users have propelled us over the last 3-4 years to add great value to consumers buying financial products. Another big enabler in our journey has been our partners who, despite their big scale, have been extremely agile and digitally focused to help us make lending extremely simple and convenient for our consumers," Naveen Kukreja said.
Paisabazaar.com works with over 60 partners, including top public and private banks, NBFCs and digital lenders.
"Congratulations to Paisabazaar.com on achieving this milestone of disbursing loans worth Rs. 5000 crore. Through this collaboration, we have been able to tap into a larger customer base and provide them with tailor made banking solutions with the help of consumer analytics. This partnership has been extremely valuable in our journey and is a testimony to the customer focused approach of both YES BANK and Paisabazaar.com," said Rajan Pental, Group President & Group Head for Branch and Retail Banking at YES Bank.
"We are delighted with Paisabazaar.com's milestone. It has been a valuable partner for us in offering consumers an enhanced experience and while impressive, the milestone is not a surprise for us, given the customer-focused innovations, we have introduced together," said Deep Pal Singh, Head, Client Acquisition, New Business - Standard Chartered Bank.
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