Account aggregator ecosystem: A step towards revolutionising digital lending in India

Venkat Yellapantula and Venu Madhav Miriyala
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Venkat Yellapantula: FIS NextGen Lending Core, India
Venu Madhav Miriyala: FIS NextGen Core (Deposits & Lending), India

Journal of Digital Banking, 2023, vol. 8, issue 1, 77-89

Abstract: An essential contributor to a nation’s economic success is providing individuals with access to established financial systems. India, through innovative use of digital finance infrastructure, aka India Stack, provided as a public good, removes obstacles in offering financial products to the unbanked and underbanked. The three pillars of the India Stack are: the identity rail (Aadhaar), the payment rail (universal payment interface) and the data-sharing rail of account aggregators (AAs). The next phase in the India Stack is the Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN), which promises to transform the digital lending industry by shifting the business model from asset-based to cash-flow-based lending. OCEN is a standard set of application programming interfaces (APIs) that pull data based on customer consent from financial information providers and offers it to financial information users to decide on credit requests. AA manages consent on behalf of the customer using data empowerment and protection architecture (DEPA). The rest of the paper explains the interoperability and portability features of the AA ecosystem, the pricing model that the AA can adopt for a sustainable business model, describes the current state of the AA ecosystem in terms of consents provided and fulfilled and concludes with the use cases of OCEN in credit extension and continuous loan monitoring.

Keywords: account aggregator (AA); India Stack; Open Credit Enablement Network (OCEN); open banking; digital lending; data empowerment and protection architecture (DEPA) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 G2 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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