Xiaomi announces Mi Credit – online lending solution for India

by Suman Gupta

Disburses personal loans upto INR 28 crores (~1 Cr/day) in pilot phase in November ‘19

Expands Mi Finance business in India after Mi Pay

New Delhi, INDIA, December 2019 – Xiaomi, India’s number one smartphone and smart TV brand today announced Mi Credit, its digital lending solution in India. Mi Credit is Xiaomi’s second Mi Finance solution to be launched in India after Mi Pay.

Mi Credit is an online curated marketplace for lending, to offer the best personal loans to Mi Fans. The current lending partners are primarily NBFCs or Fintechs such as Aditya Birla Finance Limited, Money View, EarlySalary, Zestmoney and CreditVidya. It’s built as the first personal loan choice for aspirational young professionals and millennials. Mi Credit  solves most  challenges associated with the traditional lending industry with a 100% digital experience.

Mi Credit provides an easy application process for securing loans, with an intuitive interface. First time users can complete the digital application form within five minutes, and repeat customers can avail a loan with one click disbursement. Once the loan is approved within minutes, the consumer has the option to choose the amount and the tenure of the loan. The digital advantage also shows in realtime disbursement of loans and lower interest rates. Since Mi Credit is designed as a platform with multiple lending partners, it ensures higher success rate, with higher loan amount at a lower interest rate than any other existing solutions in the market.

Mi Fans can also check their credit score instantly on the app, for free, a service which is powered by Experian. Experian is a global leader in consumer and business credit reporting. All user data on Mi Credit is stored securely in encrypted format in India through our partner Amazon Web Services Cloud Infrastructure.

Hong Feng, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President, Xiaomi Corporation / Chairman and CEO, Xiaomi Finance on the global launch of Mi Credit outside China, “Xiaomi’s Mi Finance business started four years ago in China, with an aim to provide Fintech innovation for everyone. We are committed to be the comprehensive financial partner for our global Mi Fan community, retail partners and manufacturing Industry. Today, we have over 300 million Mi Fans in our global community and having understood their consumption behaviour – it is one of the strengths we aim to leverage to build a stronger Mi Finance business globally. We see a huge opportunity for consumer lending in India with estimations reaching up to $1 trillion dollars in digital lending by 2023, as per a report from BCG. This makes us believe that our Mi Finance business, based on solutions such as Mi Pay and Mi Credit can truly revolutionise the Indian FinTech industry.”

Manu Jain, Vice President, Xiaomi and Managing Director, Xiaomi India further added, “In India, the lending industry is on an explosive trajectory. As per a recent report from CIBIL, there are over INR 4 lakh crores worth of personal loans outstanding from nearly 1.9 crore customers, with each user accounting to an almost INR 2 lakh of outstanding amount. Of these 1.9 crore  customers, majority tend to avail it for medical emergencies followed by shopping, wedding, travel and education purposes. We are bringing Mi Credit to India hoping to provide yet another innovative and truly digital solution for their lending needs.”

Mi Credit has been running in India in a pilot format, and has already disbursed loans of over 28 crores (approximately ~1 Cr / day) in November 2019. Over 20% of the users have availed the highest amount of loan INR 1 lakh. Currently, Mi Credit services more than 10 states spanning across 1,500 pin codes, and aims to expand its availability to 100% of the pin codes (more than 19,000 pin codes) by the end of FY2019.

Mi Credit app comes preloaded on all MIUI phones, and can also be downloaded from Google Play Store and GetApps, Xiaomi’s own app store.

Mi Pay is a UPI based payment app available on all MIUI phones, and can be downloaded from GetApps and Google Play Store. It was launched in India in March 2018, and within nine months has already captured over 20 million registered users.

About Xiaomi Corporation

Xiaomi Corporation was founded in April 2010 and listed on the Main Board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on July 9, 2018 (1810.HK). Xiaomi is an internet company with smartphones and smart hardware connected by an Internet of Things (IoT) platform at its core.

With the vision of being friends with its users and being the “coolest company” in the hearts of its users, Xiaomi is committed to continuous innovation, with an unwavering focus on quality and efficiency. The company relentlessly builds amazing products with honest prices to let everyone in the world enjoy a better life through innovative technologies.

Xiaomi is currently the world’s fourth-largest smartphone brand, and has established the world’s largest consumer IoT platform, with more than 196 million smart devices connected to this platform, excluding smartphones and laptops. Currently, Xiaomi products are present in more than 80 countries and regions around the world and have a leading foothold in many of them.

In July 2019, Xiaomi for the first time made the Fortune Global 500 list, ranking 468th among all, and 7th in the Internet Services and Retailing category. It is also the youngest Global 500 company of 2019.

Xiaomi India is the number 1 smartphone player since Q3 2017 IDC Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker report.

Xiaomi India is the number 1 Smart TV brand since Q2 2018 IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tracker.