Designing Loan Products: A ‘First Principles Thinking’ Blueprint
In Banking, there are no barriers to imitation. Any lender—Bank, NBFC, or Fintech—can easily build a Loan product suite simply by following the leader. This quick-fix works until the inevitable product and portfolio challenges arise. However, for long-term sustainability, you need to innovate, differentiate, and pioneer new approaches while managing risk well. First Principles Thinking is exactly what works here
If BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later), then why not PNBL?
We have seen phenomenal growth in the BNPL (Buy Now Pay Later) segment in recent past, why not also have PNBL – Pay Now Buy Later. Kartik Swaminathan explains
Over reliance on credit rating: How Banks constrain SME Lending
Banks are flush with liquidity, but still grappling with twin issues – where to deploy the money and how to source the right credit which meets the stringent criterion. Is the straight jacket approach of the bankers and high reliance on credit rating constraining SME lending? Sumit Kakkar shares his perspective
How measuring the ‘Pivot Factor’ can fill Credit Risk assessment gap post COVID
These are unprecedented times for lenders. Customer cashflows are depleted, loan track can’t be ascertained due to moratorium, making it increasingly difficult to decipher customer’s intentions. How, then, does a lender evaluate a customer? Amit Balooni shares some pointers
Is Loan a Product? (SME Lending Models 4)
Lending business can be summed up in two sentences: I (customer) need money. You (Bank) give money and charge interest. But lending isn’t so simplistic! Consider the permutations- ‘I need money now, but you will give after 4 weeks.’ ‘You are reluctant but may give loan with 110% security. I don’t have it.’ ‘You give […]
What Banking is Not 1: The Product Mindset
The ‘Product Mindset’ in Banking has created artificial limitations on customising banking services leading to loss on trust on Banks. Instead Banking requires a ‘Service Mindset’- deeper customer understanding, endeavour to provide better service fit and orientation to deliver solutions at the moment of truth. Amit Balooni shares his perspectives
Machine Learning and AML- Use cases for Banks
World is a not flat! No matter how much the globalisation theorists may want you to believe, the world post 9/11 is no longer flat but rather becomean undulated surface. 2008 recession has only added fuel to the fire. On one hand, the growing threat of terrorism has made us increasingly insecure and paranoid, on […]