TVS Credit, Zone Startups India ink pact

Under this programme TVS Credit will be working with startups and look to engage over niche as well as broad areas critical to financial services, such as underwriting, collections, customer/dealer management, people management, new product development, operations, and Robotic process automation (RPA) a release said.

The identified startups which fit into the needs will get a chance to do a milestone-based pilot with TVS Credit, leveraging business unit insights and data. Successful pilots get a chance to form a commercial partnership with TVS Credit. "India is one of the world's largest markets for financial services. It is also the country where the adoption and usage of new technology has cut across all barriers of geography, language and social strata. Our tech initiatives need to be one step ahead of the pack, always," said G Venkatraman, COO, TVS Credit. "We are looking to bring 40-50 startups into the fold of FinDhan over the next 12 months," Ajay Ramasubramaniam, Director (I), Zone Startups added.