Achuthan: Only One or Two Major Competitors Exist in Indian SME Neobanking
Anish Achuthan · How Open Became The 100th Unicorn - The Story of Asia's First Neo Bank ft. Anish Achuthan · Jun 13, 2022 · at 22:27
Anish Achuthan, co-founder of Open, describes the competitive landscape among Indian SME neobanks.
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“And I'll also not, it's also because we probably, there are only one or two major competitors in the SME space. And a lot of this place have actually started new. So for example, they right now started building digital banking offering, and some of them has payroll basically, but nobody has actually built the full other thing.”
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