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The Mool mantra: Simplifying financial services for the masses

In this blog, we chart Mool’s journey. Mool is a neo bank that enables Indians in the low- and middle-income (LMI) segment to take small steps toward saving and investing. Read on to see how Mool uses an interactive, easy-to-use platform to make customers save more and plan their financial lives better.
Mool is a startup under the Financial Inclusion (FI) Lab accelerator program’s fifth cohort. The FI Lab is supported by some of the largest philanthropic organizations worldwide—the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, J.P. Morgan, Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, MetLife Foundation, and Omidyar Network.

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Embedding finance for inclusion

Embedded finance is the seamless integration of financial services into traditionally non-financial services or products. In the Indian context, embedded finance will play a crucial role in providing access to savings, credit, and other financial services to lower and middle-income segment users. Fundfina primarily intends to provide small merchants with credit. Tune in to our podcast to hear from its co-founder and CPO on how Fundfina has imbibed this concept, how Indian consumers can benefit from this evolving concept, and what challenges lie ahead.

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CreditHaat—making distribution of financial services: “targeted, simple, and effective”

The FinTech startup CreditHaat connects underserved customers to suitable credit providers. It helps customers who need credit identify appropriate lenders and handholds them through the lenders’ application and disbursement processes. This blog explores the startup’s journey and approach to making credit products more accessible and inclusive.

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They deliver, they survive, and finally, they BELONG – Blue-collar workers in India are now “Entitled” to what they deserve for their services

India has more than 250 million blue-collared employees with an immediate need for essential benefits. Entitled works with employers to strengthen their financial health by designing bundled financial products, such as credit and insurance, for the well-being of blue-collared workers. Solid financial health will give blue-collared workers a blanket during financial shocks. Entitled is gradually developing innovative delivery channels and products to make the user onboarding experience comfortable.

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The Revolution MUST be Digitalized

It is clear that digital transformation is a journey, not a destination – so incremental progress is to be expected. Equity Bank, one of the leading microfinance providers in Kenya, developed a well-articulated approach and took over a decade to digitalize its operations. It started with the equivalent of a digital readiness assessment, on which it based its digital transformation strategy in 2010. MSC worked alongside Equity Bank, providing consulting services, for much of its digital transformation journey.

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Opportunity knocks on every phone through the power of digital lending

The startup FLYK provides credit services to the low- and moderate-income (LMI) segment in India through its mobile app. FLYK uses psychometric assessment to understand consumer behavior beyond CIBIL scores. It underwrites loans through alternative data, which allows increased inclusion among its rural borrower segment. Through its “Combined Responsibility Network (CRN),” FLYK works to overcome the limitations of traditional lending models. Learn more about how the startup understood the need and recognized the solution here.