Anshul Brings Expertise Related to Corporate and Impact Finance
Singapore, 15 December 2022 – FinAccel, the leading digital financial services company in Southeast Asia, today announced that Anshul Krishan, a noted capital markets professional, has joined its Advisory Board.
“Anshul has impressed us with his breadth of expertise spanning corporate financing in public markets to development and impact financing in private markets. As an ex-senior investment banker, he has advised and engaged with multiple companies on their IPO journeys, and more recently he’s been deeply involved in private sector impact and sustainable development initiatives. We are excited to tap into his experience at this time as we devise our own IPO strategy and build the company into a force of financial inclusion across the region,” said Akshay Garg, Group CEO and Board Chairman of FinAccel.
“FinAccel is the pioneer in alternative data based credit scoring and lending, a powerful driver of financial inclusion, in Southeast Asia. I’m impressed by what the team has achieved to date. I look forward to helping the company as it builds on this strong foundation to serve tens of millions of users in the next few years and evolves into a public company,” said Anshul.
Anshul’s career spans advising on strategic corporate actions and raising institutional capital to investing in private sector enterprises and establishing multi-stakeholder ventures for sustainable development. He has served as a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs helping them launch their Indian investment banking business and leading their Equity Capital Markets business in South and Southeast Asia. He later served on the Management Team of the IFC (World Bank Group) where, as its Chief of Staff, he was actively involved in developing strategic investments, innovative financing structures and corporate strategy across emerging markets globally. Recently, he has also served as a Corporate Advisor to Temasek International on sustainable infrastructure financing.
About FinAccel
FinAccel is a financial technology company focused on making financial services fast, affordable and accessible for the under-banked population of Southeast Asia. FinAccel’s products and entities include Kredivo, the leading retail credit platform in Indonesia and Vietnam, and Krom Bank Indonesia (formerly Bank Bisnis). FinAccel is backed by leading venture capital firms and corporate investors such as Square Peg Capital, Jungle Ventures, Naver Financial, Mirae Asset and Victory Park Capital Advisors among others. To know more about FinAccel, visit www.finaccel.co.