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Access to Finance: The Biggest Hurdle for SME Growth | Entrepreneur

 

Finance is quite rightly called the ‘Lifeblood of Business’. Short-term or long-term; managing working capital or capital finance; completing an order or strategic business expansion…. nothing works without business finance. When this criticality is seen alongside the poor state of SME financing, it is no surprise that the SME economic growth engine is often found sputtering.

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Digital lending marketplace can help SMEs to get easier and cheaper loan | SME Times

 

Two of India’s biggest economic problems faced by small and medium enterprises (SMEs) – one poor credit availability and second high cost of credit, can be solved through technology enabled SME lending marketplace, believes Shailesh Jacob the Founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Loan Frame.

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How We Are Nurturing SME Growth Through Financing Solutions | IAMWIRE

 

Despite their importance to the Indian economy, MSMEs suffer institutional neglect with access to financing at a reasonable cost being one of the key pain points for small businesses. However, a combination of realisation of the importance of this segment, improved risk appetite, and innovations in the channels linking borrowers with lenders is slowly but surely changing things for the better.

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Leveraging Technology For Business Loans | CXOToday

 

‘Digital India’ is much more than a political slogan. At its core, it is the belief that technology can help improve access to services for hitherto neglected segments of society and the economy.

One such segment is SMEs. Technology is already revolutionizing lending in India and it can bring a true disruption in SME lending, which is ripe for improvements. Measuring borrower risk accurately is something that lenders have always struggled with. This gets trickier with smaller businesses given that such these borrowers do not always have organised revenues and expense trails.

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Loan Frame raises Rs 15 crore in seed round | Economic Times

 

Small and medium enterprise-focused online lending platform Loan Frame Technologies has raised a seed round of $2.25 million (about Rs 15 crore), the latest venture-backed transaction in the country’s web-based lending space.

The investors in the round include Parag Saxena, co-founder of Vedanta Capital, William Campbell, former chairman of Visa International and Toos Daruvala, co-chief executive of MIO Partners, an internal investment arm of global consultancy McKinsey and Co. Saxena is also the founding general partner of private equity firm New Silk Route.

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Loan Frame: Solving the Financing Problem for Indian SMEs | Business World

 

Borrowers can apply for a loan by logging onto Loan Frame’s website or by downloading its Android app. The company does detailed assessment of the needs of the SMEs and then provides the right solutions for the SMEs, at the most competitive interest rates

Loan Frame was launched in mid-2016 with the objective of redefining the experience of borrowing by SMEs in India. The Company is India’s first lending marketplace fully dedicated to SMEs. Loan Frame caters to the varied loan requirements of SMEs up to Rs. 50 crores. The company differentiates from its peers with its wide set of lending products to cater to almost all needs of small and medium sized businesses.

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