Episode 7: The middle Road Interviews Ms Shilpa Pophale

Nishant Malhotra, Founder and CEO of The Middle Road chats with Ms Shilpa Pophale at her office Electronica Finance Ltd. Our discussion covers gamut of topics from Electronica's rise in green machine lending, foray into other micro-lending sectors, prudent risk management system in keeping non-performing assets less than 2%, tie-up with SIDBI within the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector, tapping capital markets for fundraising through first Green Masala Bond issue for NBFC in India and investment of $14M from New York-based impact investor Encourage Finance Ltd. and their Customer Social Responsibility initiatives specially Udaan project in catalyzing equality education for less privileged women including women for disabilities and Meeta project for enabling social entrepreneurship.