Episode 37

Only 200 Million adults in India have credit history, Credit Fair is on a mission to 5x the impact with Purpose Driven Underwriting | Aditya Damani, Founder at Credit Fair

In today’s episode Aditya Damani, Founder at Credit Fair, shares with us his vision on having impact in over one million adults in India who currently don’t have access to credit, and the one thing we can do as FinTechers to have 10x results in solving for financial stress.

We discuss what makes Credit Fair different and why they are able to give credit to customers that banks usually wouldn’t. We explore how to go about building alternative credit risk models, how to manage late payments and loan defaults to minimize risk of non payment and finally deep dive on his mindset as a founder and entrepreneur of a FinTech that has hit profitability.

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Disclaimer: This episode does not constitute professional nor financial advice and does not represent the opinion nor views of my current, past or future employers. The guest has agreed to record and release our conversation for the use of this podcast and promotion in social media.

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Monica Millares

Monica advocates for financial safety for all. She is the Product Principal at BigPay, where she leads Product and Design. As part of the founding team, Monica led building BigPay’s product from zero to one, to multi product line, and international expansion. Her leadership shaped the culture and ways of working to grow from startup to scaleup. BigPay has over 1.4 million customers, and has presence in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

Monica has almost 20 years’ experience in Financial Services. Prior to BigPay, she was one of the first joiners in UK’s challenger Tandem Bank, where she focused on building credit cards from scratch. Previously she worked in leading Financial Services brands like Visa, Barclays, and a Mexican Development Bank.

She sits on the Board of PayEd, and is recognised as Singapore’s #Fintech65 Product Leaders and Women in FinTech. She’s been multiple times speaker at the prestigious conference Money2020 and shared stage with JP Morgan, Standard Chartered Bank, Konsentus, and Money2020’s Rise Up. Her commitment to innovation and financial inclusion resonates in her podcast “Purpose Driven FinTech” where she explores how FinTech’s can have 10x more impact.

Monica has a background in Engineering and a Master’s Degree on Analysis, Design, and Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics.