Jio Financial to leverage marketplace for high-risk products, credit cards
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Jio Financial Services Ltd, the financial services arm of Reliance Industries Ltd, plans to use its newly-launched marketplace to sell products that are otherwise not within its risk appetite, managing director and chief executive officer Hitesh Sethia said on Monday.“For example, we offer personal loans through half a dozen lenders on our marketplace. We are not licensed to issue credit cards, and so we have over 50 credit cards (on the marketplace); business loans are something we are starting to offer,” Sethia said over phone.In February, Jio Financial Services launched its marketplace for financial products through the JioFinance app.
It said the marketplace brings together products from Jio Financial Services group companies and other financial firms on a single platform. These include home loans, loans against securities, personal loans, credit cards, insurance, UPI services, fixed deposits, digital gold, tax filing and planning services and savings accounts.The app is managed by Jio Finance Platform and Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Jio Financial Services.
Meanwhile, Jio Financial Services is present across lending, payments, investments, insurance through subsidiaries and joint ventures.“So, you will start seeing an expansion of the marketplace set of lending products, which will be complementary to our NBFC (non-banking financial company) products,” said Sethia.Sethia said the marketplace will coexist with the inhouse underwriting capabilities and would even be complementary in many cases.“I would not be surprised even if they compete, because it's not that (we are present in) every home loan across all segments. We are not present in affordable housing, as an example,
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