ESAF Small Finance Bank & Easy, mortgage tech start-up have entered into a strategic partnership to provide digital-first affordable home loans to home buyers. The catalyst for the partnership will be ESAF Small Finance Bank’s capability of serving low and mid-income group consumers and Easy’s technology. The partnership aims to provide loans to consumers within industry-leading turnaround time.
The partnership aims to utilise Easy’s technology and sourcing capabilities to strengthen ESAF Small Finance Bank’s secured lending in overlapping territories operated by both the institutions. The partnership is the first Mortgage-as-a-Service (MaaS) deal in India and is the first step to Easy’s long term goals of a neo-mortgage bank. Easy’s proprietary in-house artificial intelligence (“AI”) enabled technology will be utilised to ensure ESAF Small Finance Bank’s operational costs remain low and maximum market coverage through the phygital model.
“India is still at a very nascent stage when it comes to digitalisation in the mortgage space. Mortgages amount to only 10% of India’s GDP and there is a long process of underwriting a home loan. With this association, we aim to make the entire process smooth for the end consumers and are confident that they will have a great experience and faster access to capital in fulfilling their dream of owning a house.” – says Praveen Agrawal, CEO of Easy.
“We are glad to partner with Easy to offer proprietary in-house AI enabled technology to ourccustomers and facilitate them with the ease of digital services. We believe that thiscpartnership can bridge the financial inclusion gaps that are left to be addressed, through
better and faster home loans.” – says Paul Thomas, Managing Director & CEO of ESAFcSmall Finance Bank.
