Fincluvation™ - India Post Payments Bank

Department of Posts (DoP) and India Post Payments Bank collectively serve more than 430 million Indians. On one hand, these customers are underserved as their financial and non-financial needs can be fully met only through tailored products. Financial institutions and FinTechs are unable to fully serve these customers present in the most remote corners of the country due to marginal cost of acquisition and service.

DoP and IPPB have complementary strengths of a large and trusted PAN India last mile network of post offices and a robust technology platform for service delivery (Phygital Network). Uniquely positioned, this network can be strategically leveraged by other financial institutions and FinTechs. This synergy can be achieved through the proposed Fincluvation™ which will help take intuitive and tailored financial products to the last mile in an affordable, convenient and customer-led manner.

It is envisaged to establish a universal layer by DOP-IPPB combined wherein, credit as a service forms critical component apart from penetration of Digital Payments in Rural Markets.

1. Instant Paperless Micro Credit using alternate data sources

An interoperable credit platform in the lines of BNPL to promote digital payments to unserved. Platform created is open for lending institutions to use as one stop lending service. Utilization of critical data components as surrogate to assess credit requirements leading to instant sanction and delivery of credit facility.

Target Segment

• Retail – Farmers, Kirana shop owners, SHG participants, farmers in agriculture and other allied areas or any other last mile user.
• Enterprise – Micro entrepreneurs and other large merchants

For customers, this shall translate into easy access, with assistance if needed, to multiple options of instant, paperless and affordable credit for a variety of use cases.

2. Integration of Digital Payments with money order services of India Post

With more than 15 million annual eMOs (electronic money orders), it is frequently used by last mile customers to receive funds without the need of bank account. While Domestic Money remittances annually constitute a throughput of over Rs 2 trillion.

eMOs are not currently integrated with Digital Payment ecosystem of Banks. A solution to enable transfer of funds from any Bank to the Post office in order to be delivered in cash at the doorsteps of the beneficiary.

3. Open Market Led Solutions / Other out of the box solutions

If your product solves any problem (other than the ones mentioned above) that is relevant to us or the customers we cater to, we would like to know more about it.

    The participating startups should be registered on the Startup India portal at the time of application or before the proof-of-concept stage.

Below mentioned are the list of startups selected for next stage of Fincluvation. These startups will be given an opportunity to work on "next stage of Fincluvation i.e. Solution detailing and PoC implementation”