Fullerton India and One97 Communications (Paytm) have announced a partnership to provide lending products to merchant partners and consumers.
The partnership, the two established institutions will leverage data-driven insights and wide reach to bring credit to new-to-credit use.
The collaboration will offer Paytm Postpaid (buy-now-pay-later) to millions of consumers on the Paytm platform while utilizing Fullerton's deep risk assessment capabilities and scale.
Fullerton India and Paytm will further expand their product offerings to include instant personal loans, which are end-to-end digitally originated and disbursed using Paytm's technology and Fullerton's pan India presence.
The two institutions will establish a wide network, specifically catering to MSMEs across small cities and towns and help them grow their business. Both have a aim to co-create innovative merchant loan products using customer payment behaviour.