Your Story | September 17, 2020

How CredAvenue’s platform enables co-lending to take place with ease

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ET Now | August 28, 2020

Financing the Unfinanced

“A lot of micro-sector entrepreneurs also face the challenge of the gender bias, in which the banks are not too keen on giving out loans to women-led enterprises.”

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Adgully | July 17, 2020

Lockdown Lessons: Stay Connected, Stay Organised, Stay Focused: Khyati Shah

This pandemic has shown us that there is no one reliable way to invest or protect yourself financially, one has to diversify and once again, the old adage of buying gold for a rainy day rings true at a time like this.

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SME Futures | June 27, 2020

Can ever-resilient Indian MSMEs Overcome the high tide of Covid- 19 constraints?

Entrepreneurs who can overcome the digital skill gap will see more opportunities coming to them. Boosting MSMEs has a direct and an immediate impact on boosting the local and national economy. In the years to come, a significant onus lies on government and public sector banks to support the MSME ecosystem by providing quick access to capital especially through MFIs and last-mile NBFCs.”

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Live Mint | June 26, 2020

Lenders see small & medium businesses making a recovery soon

Now that lockdown is over, 70-75% of micro enterprises are concerned about availability of raw material, and a bulk of these come from China.

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ET Panache | June 9, 2020

Kinara Capital CEO dresses up for WFH, keeps a demarcated office space, attends multiple video calls to keep up with new normal.

From a tech standpoint, the transition was seamless for all of us in the company. With over 100 branches in India and our head office in Bangalore, we were used to a decentralised mode of working. We were already on a cloud-based digital system so when Covid-19 emerged, we were ready to confidently move our entire operations of 1000+ employees to work remotely. Our first priority was to safeguard our customers and our employees so we had switched to Work from Home (WFH) mode even before the first Nationwide Lockdown was announced.

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IIFL | June 9, 2021 English

The economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic is far greater than anything we will see because it came with a velocity that was unexpected.

The real need of the hour is to figure out the best way for MSMEs to afloat & still come out on the other side with minimum impact. Most small business lack the liquidity to survive months of disruption to their business. This is where last mile NBFCs play an important role by providing timely access to capital to small business especially without property collateral.

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Business Standard | May 22, 2020

RBI extends loan moratorium till Aug 31, silent on one-time restructuring

“The moratorium could be effective if it is also extended to NBFCs. Clarity on this from the RBI is still lacking.”

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Rediff | May 22, 2020

Normalcy returning for shadow lenders, albeit slowly

"As our customers are reopening their businesses, we are seeing demand for fresh credit ""But we are not disbursing fresh credit till the moratorium is over. Demand for credit is there but it will pick up further in two-three months,."

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Business Standard | February 1, 2021 Bangalore

Lockdown 4.0: Normalcy returning for shadow lenders, albeit at a slow pace

As our customers are reopening their businesses, we are seeing demand for fresh credit. But we are not disbursing fresh credit till the moratorium is over. Demand for credit is there but it will pick up further in two-three months,

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Live Mint | July 10, 2019 English

Click Moment | ‘Shoulder the risk if you want to drive financial inclusion

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