PB Fintech reports a recovery in its core online lending business following a wholesale agent reset, while insurance remains a key growth driver amid broader financial improvements.
PB Fintech’s lending arm showed signs of recovery in the latest quarter after a sharp reset in its wholesale agent business, even as overall disbursements fell from a year earlier. According to the company, total lending disbursements declined 38% year on year to ₹43.7 billion in the quarter, largely because it scaled back secured lending tied to wholesale agent sourcing. But the core online book improved sequentially, with disbursements rising to ₹27.8 billion and core online credit revenue increasing 25% to ₹1.3 billion.
The drag came mainly from PB Connect, where disbursements dropped to ₹15.9 billion from ₹49.1 billion a year earlier after the company’s wholesale agent reset. That shift weighed on headline lending growth, but it also appears to have sharpened the business focus around direct online origination. The latest figures suggest the company is still in transition, with the legacy channel being pared back while the core platform begins to regain momentum.
Insurance remained the stronger pillar of the business. Core online premium rose 41% year on year to ₹57.6 billion, while premium from new initiatives climbed 42% to ₹26.2 billion. That build-out in insurance is important because it has been the main engine behind PB Fintech’s recent profit growth, helping offset the volatility in lending.
The company’s broader financial performance has also improved markedly over the past year. Moneycontrol reported that PB Fintech’s net profit jumped 164% year on year to ₹135 crore in the quarter ending in FY26, with revenue up 38% to ₹1,613.5 crore, helped by stronger insurance income, renewal revenue and tighter control over marketing and employee costs. For the full FY26 year, the same publication said profit more than doubled to ₹670 crore on revenue of ₹6,794 crore, with health insurance demand remaining robust.
That wider backdrop matters as the lending division resets. Industry commentary from Equirus Securities has pointed to firm retail loan demand across banks in the opening quarter of FY27, while corporate borrowing also stayed resilient. For PB Fintech, the near-term story is less about matching that credit-market strength and more about proving that its direct online lending model can scale again after the wholesale pullback.
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