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Featured White-paper

Embracing risk:

How lenders can turn risk into a growth engine

Read the whitepaper to know:

  • Why current risk assessment models inhibit profit margins
  • How interest rates can be calibrated for risk profiles
  • How FinBox can lift segmentation portfolios for lenders
  • Why pricing in risk can lead to financial inclusion
Embracing Risk

Executive Summary

Lenders  can  monetize  risk  to  offset  protracted  periods  of  muted  profitability.  With alternative data and advanced analytics, they can open loan books to riskier borrower cohorts, even new-to-credit customers, factoring in an exhaustive risk spectrum with dynamic interest rates. 

This whitepaper makes a case for risk as a growth engine and how lenders can price risk in financial products.

Profitability for banks will have to be driven with macro prudential risk assessment policies, spearheaded with technology and alternative data, that factor in not just individual risks, but also industry, sectoral and market risks.

Rajat Deshpande, Co-Founder and CEO, FinBox

Authors' Bio

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Rajat Deshpande,
Co-Founder and CEO, FinBox

Rajat is a Fintech specialist and a startup enthusiast who started FinBox along with his Co-Founders with a mission to lay out digital infrastructure for alternate finance solutions. Under his leadership, FinBox has built multiple products in the Embedded Finance and Big Data credit analytics spaces. FinBox has enabled over 16 million lending decisions in India and SE Asia. In his prior stints, Rajat was associated with the global consulting firm ZS, Citigroup and GoPigeon Logistics as Head of product.

He holds a Dual (BTech+MTech) degree in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Bombay.

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Anant Deshpande,
Co-Founder, FinBox

Anant is a Co-Founder of FinBox. He is passionate about making credit inclusive and affordable for India’s self-employed & micro entrepreneurs. At FinBox, Anant leads lending and builds credit origination systems powered by alternate data (device data, third party data, etc) and traditional data (credit bureau).

In his earlier role at Home Credit, he drove Big Data based loan underwriting of a $2B consumer loan portfolio. Anant has previously been associated with global consulting firm ZS Associates & with TransOrg Analytics where he owned P&L and productised analytical consulting. He is a regular marathoner and holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Nagpur University.

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