Tag: #EconomicEmpowerment

State-Run Banks Explore New Home Loan Model for Informal Income Earners

November 12, 2024

MUMBAI: Major state-owned banks have begun preliminary discussions to evaluate the potential for offering home loans to individuals lacking traditional income documentation, employer certificates, or tax returns. Unlike standard disbursements under ‘affordable housing’ initiatives, this new approach would assess applicants’ income through unconventional means, such as examining the transaction activity of a street vendor via […]

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Ummeed Housing Finance receives a $20 million loan sanctioned by US International DFC.

October 18, 2023

In order to meet the housing needs of the economically disadvantaged and middle-class people, the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) has approved a $20 million long-term loan for Gurgaon-based Ummeed Housing Finance. According to Ashutosh Sharma, the founder and managing director of Ummeed, the American fundraising organization will offer the debt at a fixed […]

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