EarlySalary Joins Forces with Transcorp to Launch RuPay Powered Salary Card

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EarlySalary Joins Forces with Transcorp to Launch RuPay Powered Salary Card

  • Thursday, October 29, 2020 5:51PM IST (12:21PM GMT)
India's first non-bank platform to enable contactless payment opportunities for fintech companies
 
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India:  ​EarlySalary, India’s largest consumer lending platform for salaried professionals, today announced that it has forged a partnership with Transcorp, an RBI regulated Authorised Dealer Category II and Prepaid Payment Instrument (PPI) license holder to launch the EarlySalary co-branded ‘Salary Card’, a zero-touch universally accepted digital card on a non-banking platform that delivers convenience to enable payments to its customers base and provide instant access for salaried professionals, enabling them to make quick purchases across thousands of merchants across India.

 

Key Highlights:
  • Transcorp is future-ready with:
    • National Common Mobility Card
    • Tokenisation
    • Soon to go live on UPI 2.0 and Fastag 
  • EarlySalary is focusing on:
    • Real time customers to onboard
    • Instant credit up to Rs.5 L for salaried professional

Powered by Transcorp, which provides the RuPay licensing and card platform, coupled with EarlySalary's instant customer onboarding and customer management capabilities, the co-branded card enables accelerated financial inclusion among young working Indians. Customers can activate the Salary Card within seconds by accessing the EarlySalary mobile app and use it for shopping, medical, travel, entertainment and education categories. 
 
With the pandemic driving rise in consumer preference for safe and secure transactions, the Salary Card fuelled by RuPay Platinum BIN and Transcorp platform are designed to promote non-touch transactions and seamless experience for consumers. Additionally, to drive faster and secured processing, the first and only non-Bank entity in India that provides solutions like cards, vKYC and wallets. 
 
Vice President at Transcorp, Mr. Ayan Agarwal said, “The digital India program aims to empower citizens and drive a knowledge economy to accelerate the next phase of growth. Transcorp is one of the fastest-growing non-bank card issuer in India and the quickest go-to-market for partners with issuance of live cards within weeks. We are committed to play a key role in enabling digital, physical and contactless payments.” He further added, “The partnership with EarlySalary demonstrates our capability to alternate payment system with our proprietary combined licensing & platform offering for fintech organizations to directly connect with an RBI licensed entity. We want to continue to play a key role in equipping partners to customize Transcorp's plug & play solution to their existing business models while generating an additional line of revenue and sticky customers.
 
Mr. Akshay Mehrotra, Co-Founder and CEO of EarlySalary said, “Financial services in India are at the forefront of implementing breakthrough innovations to drive new payment solutions. The collaboration with Transcorp to launch Salary Card highlights our combined efforts to promote digital payments and make them accessible in a safer and easier way for consumers. We at EarlySalary.com are delighted with this partnership to help build convenience in digital payments, build more use cases for our customer’s fuel demands of the modern Indian.
 
Earlier this month, EarlySalary also introduced the EarlySalary Credit Suite which is designed to provide a one-stop credit solution to serve all credit requirements of a salaried individual. In this way, the brand aims to help millions of people lead a better life who wants to achieve their financial freedom, wants an upgrade to their lifestyles, and to meet any emergency needs.


About Transcorp International Limited:
 
TIL (Transcorp International Limited), a 25 year old RBI regulated entity listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange has witnessed astounding growth during the last few years and has transpired into a full-fledged single window organization for foreign exchange, remittances, insurance, fixed deposits, travel services (Ritco) and car rentals. Transcorp powers prepaid cards and wallets for leading fintechs, lenders, aggregators, industry giants and startups using its unique licensing and platform bundle. Transcorp’s Card platform is being used for many kinds of payouts including merchant settlements, commission/incentives, gifts, loans, salaries, expenses/meals. In addition to tax benefits, payouts on these cards give visibility on customer spend patterns and data analytics to optimise marketing.
 
With over 20 offices nationwide, 800+ SBI locations, 5000+ agent locations, Transcorp has processed over US$ 5 billion worth of transactions for 12 million+ customers over the years. In addition to the coveted Authorised Dealer Category 2 and Prepaid Instruments licenses, Transcorp is also a National Banking Correspondent for SBI and works with leading banks and international institutions to facilitate digital payments and seamless transactions across networks and borders.

About EarlySalary.com
 
Founded by Akshay Mehrotra and Ashish Goyal, EarlySalary is a mobile app that allows salaried individuals to avail of financial assistance. The company offers a bouquet of products tailored to the need of young India including salary advances, instant loans, interest-free EMI options and a line of credit to shop. The company conducts a prudent risk assessment by leveraging machine learning to go beyond financial underwriting.
 
EarlySalary earlier raised INR 100 crores in January 2018 led by Eight Roads Ventures (Fidelity). With more than 10 Million Downloads and loans, EarlySalary is helping customers borrow within minutes. EarlySalary has fast become the 1st line of credit for young working professionals in India.
 
Key Features
  • Instant access to funds in less than 10 minutes
  • High Automation: Fully automated Machine Approved & instantly disbursed loans
  • Loans available from values ranging from Rs. 5,000 to Rs. 5 Lac cash can be accessed for a tenure from 3months to 3 years.
  • Buy Now on EMI – allows the ability to use the loan limit to shop online on credit on Amazon, Flipkart & hundreds of merchants and offers
  • Education & Skill Upgradation loans made easy with instant EMIs.
  • 500+ corporate tie-ups done in the period of last 5 years
 
For more information please visit www.earlysalary.com

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