Intelligent Fin.tech Issue 02 | Page 48

HOW POLICY IS FIGHTING DISEASE AND

SPECIALIST INSIGHT

Yashish Dahiya , Chairman and CEO of PB Fintech Limited
annualised loans worth Rs 12,000 crore to more than 22 million customers in 450 cities and towns .
Yashish Dahiya , Chairman and CEO of PB Fintech Limited , speaks to us about the insurance sector and how Policybazaar is investing in technologies to help improve it .
Before starting his entrepreneurial journey with PolicyBazaar . com , he was the Managing Director of ebookers . com , a leading pan-European online travel distributor , which was also an FTSE 250 company listed on Nasdaq . Dahiya was also a management consultant with Bain & Co . in its London office .

Yashish Dahiya is the Chairman and CEO of PB Fintech Limited . He has a strong belief that customers in India need more financial coverage for death , disease and disability and the long-term profitability of the insurance industry depends upon how well the industry is focused on these three . With that , he has built Policybazaar . com into a 3,500-crore plus insurance marketplace within a short span of 12 years .

Under his leadership , the group company started Paisabazaar . com , an online financial marketplace for investment and lending products in 2014 . Today , Paisabazaar . com one of India ’ s largest online financial marketplaces for loans and credit cards , disbursing
Here Dahiya speaks to us about Policybazaar , the company ’ s main challenges , its investments in technology and how that is being used within the insurance sector . . . .
Could you tell us about Policybazaar ?
Policybazaar started in 2008 . It focuses on the need for protection against death ,
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