BENGALURU: Online financial services marketplace, BankBazaar will miss profitability target set for 2020-21 as coronavirus-led disruptions have slowed the pace of revenue growth in the financial services segment, said a top company executive.
The online marketplace had expected making an operating profit by the end of March and launch an initial public offering (IPO) by fiscal 2022, Mint had reported in February.
However, the ongoing nationwide lockdown, a moratorium on repayment of loans allowed by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and slowing retail loan growth have severely impacted BankBazaar's revenues in the past few months. “We were on track to hit operational level profits for the year ended March 2020, however, due to the pandemic,