Moneyboxx poised to create greater positive impact on small town businesses
A BSE-listed NBFC Moneyboxx Finance Limited, a small-ticket business loans to micro entrepreneurs, has secured Rs.50 crore term loan from SBI for a period of 4 years for onward lending to the micro-entrepreneurs in the agricultural and allied sectors in Tier-III cities and below regions.
This loan from SBI, along with planned equity raise through private placement within next three months and a strong debt pipeline from multiple private and PSU banks, will ensure adequate liquidity in alignment with the company’s plans to ramp-up the AUM from over Rs.190 crore as of Oct’22 to around Rs.400 crores by Mar’23.
“The term loan from SBI will help boost our efforts in fostering financial inclusion by addressing the unmet and growing need for credit in the Rs.1 lakh to Rs.10 lakh small business loan segment,” said Deepak Aggarwal, Co-founder, Moneyboxx.
“With a robust and highly scalable business model in place, backed by an entirely digital process and risk analytics capabilities, we are poised to create a greater positive impact on small businesses across small towns,” he elaborated.
“We are very excited and thankful to SBI for this vote of confidence in our extremely successful and unique phygital business model, wherein we not only provide growth capital to small and marginal agri-entrepreneurs, but also supplement this with significant beyond-lending initiatives, while maintaining pristine asset quality.”
Moneyboxx is driving financial inclusion by catering to the unmet credit needs of micro entrepreneurs in Tier-III and below regions.
With cumulative disbursements of over Rs.320 crores, it has transformed lives of over 20,000 borrowers, of which 45% were women and 38% new-to-credit.
The company has engendered sustainable and transformational changes in borrowers’ lives through various impact initiatives such as free vet consultation service for livestock borrowers and free plantation of fruit-bearing trees for its borrowers who own agricultural land, thereby providing them with an alternate source of income.
The company’s has 47 branches, having opened 17 new branches in this fiscal, plans to add 13 more by the end of this financial year.
On the back of a strong debt pipeline and planned equity fund raise, the company is confident to reach AUM of Rs.400 crores by FY23 and simultaneously ramp up its financial inclusion efforts.
Moneyboxx, which began operations in February 2019, currently has branches spread across five states – Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. It provides unsecured and secured business loans ranging from Rs.100,000 to Rs.700,000 to individual borrowers for income generation purposes in essential and important segments (livestock, kirana, traders as well as micro-manufacturers) in Tier-III and below towns. fiinews.com
