How do you differentiate Kredent Academy and elearnmarkets services in terms of grabbing their end-users?
Kredent Academy offers classroom training as well as online training through its learning portal elearnmarkets.com. The training is conducted for various modules under the category of career, trading and investor courses. The training covers the entire gamut of financial markets including Stock Markets, Commodities, Currency, Mutual Fund, Insurance, Financial Planning, Wealth Management etc. Starting from basic finance to advanced concepts like stock market investing, fundamental and technical analysis and options trading, one can learn to become a better trader, investor or market professional working with financial intermediaries. There are courses for housewives and businessmen who wish to manage their money responsibly and grow their wealth steadily. These courses are taught by some of the best instructors and market experts and are highly practical focused to give the students a holistic understanding of the subjects.
Elearnmarkets.com (ELM) was created to expand the reach virtually and to become the number one BFSI training marketplace in India. As on date, ELM has over 150,000 learners and over 100 courses on various aspects of finance.
Which part of the problem you are trying to solve?
According to a survey conducted by Standard & Poor’s, over 76% of Indian adults lack basic financial literacy and do not understand key financial concepts. It is also a widely known fact that only 2 per cent of India’s population is currently engaged in any formal financial instruments (excluding banking). We realized that the underlying problem of poor financial literacy leads to under-penetration of formal financial products leading to poor wealth creation. Thus, we decided to build the complete ecosystem of financial management that would guide a user to learn, analyze and participate in various financial products the right way.
Kredent InfoEdge started catering towards this goal through scientifically designed courses through the venture Kredent Academy, set up in 2008. As an extension to increase our retail reach we forayed into online finance education in 2015 through portal Elearnmarkets.com, that offers over 100 e-learning courses in finance and has trained more than 150,000 learners till now. Elearnmarkets offers various career-oriented courses with joint certification with NSE Academy, NCDEX and MCX and expert-led boot camps, seminars and webinars.
How do you see the fintech industry in India and its job perspective?
A head full of numbers understands finance like no other. Unlike old days where a degree in finance made you eligible only for maintaining books of accounts, finance skills are now more in demand than ever before. This can be attributed to the growth in the BFSI sector and increasing interest of people in myriad financial investment options.
Career choices in finance have increased manifold over the past few years. Thanks to the disruptive forces in the financial services sector and the advent of startups that are advancing ahead with new financial technologies, the employment landscape of financial professionals have greatly increased.
Are your courses are updated as per trends and requirement for the clients? What exactly you look for to improve the user experience?
Our courses are very practical in nature. It’s our standalone courses which we have defined as per the trend and requirement and NSE has to certify these courses. We have courses which are basically designed by industry experts so those are very practical and even NSE took time to evaluate our modules and finally certified it.
If you had to give a piece of advice to someone starting a startup what would it be?
Here are my 5 mantras for young and aspiring entrepreneur to help them get started:
- Have a vision with a plan to execute
- Think long term
- Identify pain area
- Good team
- Right investor
What are the other developments in the pipeline?
Our current focus is in India and planned to reach to the entire population through localized contents and relevant products. Would be looking to raise Series A and build integrated transaction platform alongside develop more regional contents. No plans for any diversification outside BFSI, we will do everything that would simplify finance for all
