Helping their customers get the best loan offers

Helping them make easy choices by explaining the product details, cost breakdown and more

Provide them with custom financial products in collaboration with lenders

Improve their financial well being (which in turn helps keep the credit marketplace healthy).

As an agent of the borrowers, LSPs charge the borrower as compared to the current model where LSPs are paid a bounty or commission by lenders. They can charge value added fees to help their customers obtain loans, a subscription fee for credit advisory and more. More business models are emerging as we engage with LSPs.

Overall, this increases ecosystem alignment (the LSP acts with the borrowers' interests in mind by trying to source the lower cost of credit), transparency (all ecosystem partners are clear about compensation) and lenders benefit from lower costs of acquisition while focusing on creating products that best fit their target market.

They will undergo a light certification by a CredAll empanelled certification agency to ensure tight integration with APIs that ensure seamless customer experience and security.

Yes, a LSP can be a lender or vice versa.

No, with OCEN, the hassle of individual custom integrations goes away and in one go, an LSP is able to connect with multiple prospective lenders.

These APIs can be used for multiple financial products such as invoice financing, PO financing, CapEx financing, personal loans and more.

Yes, LSPs can share their platform data with the lenders to help in better determination of creditworthiness of a customer. Examples are 'throughput of orders' of a merchant and their customer rating on the platform.

OCEN is an open source protocol for credit. LSP is an entity that uses the protocol to connect its customers with lenders seamlessly for financing?

Sahay is a reference LSP implementation on top of OCEN, just like BHIM is for UPI

Pilots will be underway in a few weeks.

There are a mix of top lending marketplaces, Kirana tech, e-commerce, social networking, payment gateway companies engaged for this today.

OCEN complements Account Aggregators(AA) by surfacing the borrower for the lender. The lender subsequently fetches data from AA to access high provenance data of the same borrower for underwriting.

OCEN is a public good and in the effort to be inclusive we will endeavour to keep the costs of using the APIs reasonable. There will be 2 types of costs.

For entities interested in becoming an LSP or a Lender, there will be a certification fee upon integrating APIs. The certification is important to ensure a neat and tight integration so that user experience and security are not compromised.

A CredAll membership fee.

The details of these costs will be available shortly.

Existing FinTechs realise the value of a standardised protocol and how it helps them reduce operational hassles of integrations and maintenance with multiple lenders. Beyond saving operational costs, they see it as a great opportunity to expand their current portfolio of products and reach to more varied borrower segments.

No, they are standardised APIs that can be utilised for multiple business as well as consumer loans.

No market player owns OCEN APIs. It is a digital public good.

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There are many key, distinct players in Cash flow based lending value chain. They bring one or more of the following to the table to contribute:

1. Data

2. Distribution

3. Capital

4. Technology

Collaboration of all these players is critical to provide a seamless digital, lending experience for borrowers.

The Lenders bring in capital and credit product experience to collaborate with LSPs.

They interact with Credit Bureaus as part of their underwriting process.

Players like Payments Service Providers and Account Aggregators plug in critical digital public infrastructure.

Loan Service Providers provide the low cost distribution and bring in tacit know-how of the customers they serve. They utilise this connect with the 'pulse of the customer' for creating tailored credit products in collaboration with lenders. They can further enable provision of quality customer data, like 'business activity' data (e.g. platform ratings) to the lenders and even facilitate cash flow entrapment if they have a continuous cash flow interaction.

Technology Service Providers enable lenders as well as LSPs utilise the OCEN APIs along with other components of India Stack. They help them in technical implementations and ease of adoption.

Underwriting Modellers help in assessment of various raw data signals that can be captured through digital trails and help lenders make sense of the data.