"We are in talks with two 'Fintech's' for recovery": SBI MD Ashwini Tewari
Sep 14, 2023
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], September 14 : State Bank of India (SBI) Managing Director Ashwini Kumar Tewari shared SBI's strategies for bolstering the MSME sector and outlined the measures the bank is implementing for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).
The Managing Director emphasized SBI's commitment to initiatives like the Mudra scheme and various plans aimed at fostering the growth of small and medium enterprises.
He said "Formalisation of MSMEs leads to a lot of data which is available to banks and this increases the quality of underwriting. If lending happens on the basis of quality data due to formalisation, then it would lead to lesser delinquencies."
The Managing Director of SBI further added "Availablity of Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (SME) and National Guarantee Trust for 'Mudra Loans' run by 'SIDBI' and government will run lesser losses. If unsecured retail loans are going up then RBI (Reserve Bank of India) will have to caution everyone when underwriting is done. SBIs unsecured retail is largely salary based and delinquency risk is much lower in Salaried based. We are fairly safe and going further, we will have to do a better job."
Asking on Fintech he said "We are in talks with two fintech's for recovery. The model of one Fintech is conciliation wherein they explain the consumer. The other one studies the model of the likelihood of a customer's defaulting. The pilot program is currently underway, and we will reveal the names at a later stage as it's in the initial phases."
SBI Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara, speaking at the SME Finance Forum platform, noted, "SME financing is evolving in a manner similar to retail financing, with most credible information now accessible through digital channels."
SBI chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara said that "SME (small and medium enterprise) financing is evolving along the lines of retail financing, SME financing is charting the path of retail financing, with most of the credible information sources being available through digital mode."
Minister of State Bhagwat Karad, highlighted on Tuesday that, “MSME plays a very important role in the development of the Indian economy. Currently, around 6.3 crore MSME enterprises are working in India and have generated around 11.1 crore employment opportunities. Around 30 per cent of GDP comes from MSME and the growth rate every year is 10 percent.”
