Sukanya KumarCo-Founder of RetailLending.com Published On: Wednesday, August 12, 2015 Views 2770

Retaillending.com is a web-based portal which enables the browser to get an almost perfect eligibility after a guided advisory on what suits his requirement the best. This portal not only offers the comparison between lenders, but also opens the option of choosing the right product from the very lender. An almost perfect user interface and provision to track the progress of the application online makes the experience of the borrower completely stress-free. The beta launch will be in a couple of months. Unparalleled advisory service for the Elite will make all the inhibitions go away.

Financial services market was always un-organized. Borrowers used to feel unsafe with the commitments made to them. This lack of transparency was bothering the growth in the industry and those who opted for the service were mostly unsatisfied. The need of a transparent deal with unbiased advisory and pure commitment towards the borrower was well-awaited.

Be in a business which not only has growth potential for you, but for all associates in the business. If you want to go far, you should take all your partners along with you and make them grow too.

People could not believe that they can buy a loan product online and can get to choose between options. The challenge was to convince them that a ‘meeting’ is not required to explain the products as they were all used to a physical interaction. Even bigger challenge was to make our own team believe that they can close a loan deal online or on phone.

It took time. Our team gave seamless information, prompt response and adequate input to the prospective borrowers and those clients understood the value behind getting those input promptly and correctly without a bias, which was way better than meeting someone whose voice was the only thing they were depending on, without having any documents to back up their claims. Our e- mail confirmation and correspondences with clarity helped people understand the difference and they started referring others for our service.

Till now, this is a zero-debt company, run by the funds generated through the business done.

Honestly, our product has a very strong back-end engine which does the credit appraisal and the documentation support. We do not require any expertise there. The core team is with us for many years and hence we have never really faced such problem till now. But, when we increase the team, we may have similar issues the industry faces and will have a solution too. Let the time come.

1. Clear and sharp memory

2. Problem-solving capacity

3. Integrity

If the third one is not there, the first two won’t matter. This is a small world and if you don’t show strength in your character by holding onto a principle, people remember it.

I read a lot. New products, features, international trend on mortgages…. these subjects interests me. Strong knowledge-base on Indian mortgage industry, understanding the policy of each lender we sign-up with is most important for me. I am not from the technology background and believe that this industry needs more of domain knowledge than tech. I can hire tech-knowledge, not domain experience is the aspect which makes our team good advisers and more productive on delivery.

One tip to success:

Teamwork. There is no replacement of that if you want to create something big.

One mistake you believe every individual must avoid:

Do not forget the mistakes you made. The more you remember them, more it draws you closer towards the success.

One most important lesson that you have learnt till now:

There is nobody bigger than the client in a service industry. All other parties will fall in place if your client is with you.

Our new portal will beta launch in couple of months. It will be a whole new experience for the Home Loan borrowers. Very different than what you have. Ours will be easy to use and will bring the borrower closer to the perfect eligibility calculation unlike the standard calculators available online today. This will enhance the chances of him being leveraged by the lenders better with the help of various exotic products in home loan which people are mostly unaware of. A great experience with the web-tool with never-before mathematics accuracy.

We will launch in 2 cities initially and spread in 8 gradually. Funding is an option we will look forward to for the purpose of scaling up.

We want to attain a market share of 5% in 5 years, wherein our competition is at less than 1% market-share after almost eight years’ of operation.

This question sounds like I’m being offered a ride on a time machine! On a serious note, I would sign up my clients on online platform in more numbers and will be more confident myself that a web- based application will be the future and put my own doubts behind sooner. I will convince the lenders on my online product more aggressively and request them to partner with me sooner.

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“If you don’t go after what you want, you will never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always No. If  you don’t step forward, you are always in the same place.”—-Nora Roberts (American novelist).