BankBazaar.com
BankBazaar.com is a neutral online loan marketplace based in Chennai, India. Founded in 2007 by a team of home-grown entrepreneurs, it specializes in offering custom interest rate quotes on Personal Loan, Home Loan & Home Loan Refinance products from its various banking partners and users can compare these quotes and complete their loan application to the bank online directly. Being a neutral marketplace, BankBazaar.com provides users with a convenient and transparent interface where users are provided with the exact break-up of Interest Rate, Total Cost, Processing Fees, and other involved charges that the loan seeker will incur upfront.
Bankbazaar.com's partnering banks include Indian and foreign banks including ING, Axis Bank, Deutsche Bank, ABN Amro, CitiFinancial, HDFC Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Housing Development Finance Corporation, and Reliance Consumer Financial. With seed funding from AVT group, Bankbazaar.com was founded by a team of entrepreneurs who have previously worked for some global firms Amazon.com, Microsoft, Kraft Foods, Deloitte Consulting, Trilogy, Capital One, Oracle.
BankBazaar.com powers finance content and tools to Yahoo in India, MSN in India, Rediff.com, Moneycontrol.com and others.
Advisory Board
Arvind Panagariya Bhagwati Professor of Economics at Columbia University. Retired Chief Economist at the Asian Development Bank.
N Rangachary Founding Chairman of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) of India.
V.P. Shetty Director of JM Financial Securities Pvt. Ltd. Chairman of Indian Banks Association 06-07. Retired Chairman & Managing Director - IDBI Bank, Canara Bank and UCO Bank.
Suresh Talwar Partner at Talwar Thakore & Associates. Director at Cadbury India, Birla Sun Life and BioCon.
External links
- http://www.bankbazaar.com
- http://msn.bankbazaar.com
- http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/businessline/blnus/15231630.htm
- http://www.financialexpress.com/news/ing-vysya-inks-partnership-with-bankbazaar.com/377515/
- http://www.pluggd.in/indian-startups/compare-rates-of-financial-instruments-online-bankbazaar-4046/
- http://www.startupdunia.com/india-startups/bankbazaar-comparison-shopping-for-loans-1210
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- http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2008/09/11/stories/2008091150430900.htm