The industry has significantly boosted India's economic growth by providing financial support to a diverse range of individuals and businesses, including those often excluded from traditional bank loans.

The NBFC industry faces challenges like regulatory compliance, funding stability, credit quality management, and competition from banks and fintech players. Navigating these hurdles requires adaptability, risk management, and innovation.

The Grant Thornton Bharat advantage

  • Personalised strategic guidance
  • Robust risk management
  • Performance enhancement
  • Personalised strategic guidance
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    Our tailored solutions provide valuable insights and actionable strategies to expand your portfolio, optimise operations, and explore new markets.
  • Robust risk management
    Robust risk management
    We provide comprehensive risk assessments and customised solutions designed to mitigate potential threats and uncertainties.
  • Performance enhancement
    Performance enhancement
    Our technology-backed innovative solutions enhance efficiency, elevate customer experience, and bolster your market presence.

BFSI & Fintech

Road ahead in the digital era

ECL AssessPro

ECL Model Maturity Assessment Tool from Grant Thornton Bharat

India's Best Financiers

With 43% of retail credit demand coming from 18-30 year age group, lenders need to set new benchmarks to cater to the needs of this cohort.

RBI Master Directions on fraud risk management

The Board of Directors’ overall roles and responsibilities in fraud risk management, enhance internal control frameworks, and ensure compliance with principles of natural justice.

Risk barometer survey for fintech lending

The survey, in collaboration with Fintech Association for Consumer Empowerment (FACE), will assess the risk perception of various stakeholders, including customers in digital lending.

Our solutions

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    Regulatory compliance

    Our expertise, strong ties with regulatory authorities, and extensive work in the realm of regulatory frameworks and guidelines can assist your organisation in cultivating a culture of compliance. As part of our compliance solutions, we aid in evaluating risks, implementing, and overseeing programs.

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    Risk management

    We specialise in providing solutions tailored to the regulations applicable to Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs), encompassing both quantitative and qualitative aspects. We also offer governance solutions related to internal control and financial controls.

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    Governance services

    We offer comprehensive governance solutions, including internal audits, process reviews, development of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), assessments of governance culture, as well as specialised risk management reviews focused on Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and model validation.

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    Quality assurance review

    Backed by cutting-edge tools and strong partnerships with regulatory and industry authorities, our team consistently delivers services that encompass activities such as mock audits, risk and compliance evaluation, proactive risk management, AI/ML-powered transformation, analysis of critical skill gaps, improvements in reporting mechanisms, and vigilant fraud prevention. This approach ensures a dynamic and all-encompassing strategy to safeguard your business's security and success.

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    Finance transformation

    Delivering finance-related services and transformative change, we specialise in enterprise performance management (EPM) solutions, encompassing planning, budgeting, and consolidation. Our expertise extends to cost optimisation services. We also provide EUC solutions, emphasising governance and remediation for a comprehensive approach.

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    Transformation management office

    As industries undergo significant market shifts, organisations pursuing large-scale transformations prioritise success through a transformative approach. Emphasising clear vision, integrated strategies, and value-centric execution, our transformation office provides a comprehensive framework from initial strategy development to seamless technology implementation.

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    Prevention/ investigation of front running and market abuse

    We conduct forensic review of equity, derivative and debt trades on 15+ fraud parameters to identify potential cases of front running and insider trading within the investment function. For cases where triggers are identified, enhanced investigation is carried out.

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    Fraud analytics

    We conduct advanced analytics on high-risk areas susceptible to fraud by utilising over 100+ industry-specific fraud indicators. Subsequently, deploying enhanced investigation procedures in response to triggers identified during the analytics process.

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    Delinquency review

    We enable the organisations to identify if the root cause for heightened delinquency in a product portfolio is business reasons or fraud related elements.

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    Fraud resilience testing

    We help the organisations in testing their fraud immunity by exposing critical business processes to fraud externalities (stress testing).

Creation of a transfer pricing model

Problem statement
An international financial services company required assistance in developing a Transfer Pricing (TP) model for providing debt monitoring services in India.
Our solution
We conducted a comprehensive Functional, Assets, and Risk analysis (FAR analysis), performed an economic analysis, including robust benchmarking analysis, and advised for the proposed inter-company transaction.
Impact
We helped in streamlining the client's intra-group transactional flow. Our assistance ensured the implementation of the optimal TP model, contributing to future operational success and ensuring compliance with tax regulations.

Review of operational risk management framework

Problem statement
We were engaged by a leading foreign investment bank to assist in the review of their operational risk management framework.
Our solution
We conducted a thorough review of the investment bank's operational risk management framework, aligning it with global best practices and Basel norms. Our team also assessed the comprehensiveness and adequacy of the bank's risk and control self-assessment process. We reviewed the completeness and accuracy of operational risk reporting to both internal and external stakeholders.
Impact
The result was a detailed gap assessment report highlighting observations and improvement opportunities for the bank.

Helped a newly formed NBFC set up IT infrastructure and implement business critical applications

Problem statement
We were engaged by an NBFC for project management for establishment of infrastructure and implementation of business-critical applications.
Our solution
We conducted an IT gap assessment to evaluate the current AS-IS IT landscape and proposed areas for improvement. We provided comprehensive project management and governance for implementing critical applications such as Loan Management System, Accounting & Financial system, etc. Our experts streamlined entire IT operations and proposed solutions to enhance overall IT security.We also conducted vendor assessments, and initiated and evaluated Proof of Concepts (POCs) for proposed solutions.
Impact
As a result of our guidance, the client was able to successfully close its annual IT/IS audit and improve its operational efficiency.

Meet our leaders

Vivek Iyer

Mumbai

+91 22 6626 2600

Akshay Garkel

Mumbai

+91 22 6626 2600

Vernon Dcosta

Mumbai

+91 22 6626 2600

Jatin Kalra

Mumbai

+91 22 6626 2600

Dharmesh Jadav

Mumbai

+91 22 6626 2600