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Loan management built for the institutions driving financial inclusion

Loan management for SACCOs, NBFCs and microfinance — disbursement, repayment schedules, NPA classification and regulator reporting across India and Africa.

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Outcomes our customers see

The numbers we move.

Production benchmarks from real deployments — not vendor brochures.

  • 5,000+

    Agents in some deployments

    Real-time disbursement and collection

  • RBI · CBK

    Regulator coverage

    Plus IFRS-9 ECL for international reporting

  • 6–10 mo

    Avg. implementation

    For a 50K–200K-borrower MFI

  • Group JLG

    First-class support

    Beyond what generic cores handle

What's in the platform

Capabilities, end to end.

A complete module list — designed to remove the gaps where vendor platforms typically leave you in spreadsheets.

  • 01

    Product configuration

    Flat / reducing / IRR interest, fees, grace periods, repayment cycles (daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, custom). Configurable without code.

  • 02

    Disbursement workflows

    Single-instalment, multi-tranche, group disbursement. Biometric verification at the agent point. Real-time settlement to bank or mobile money wallet.

  • 03

    Schedule & repayment engine

    EMI / RPS / declining-balance schedules. Mid-term reschedule. Multi-channel collections (branch, agent, mobile money, ACH). Auto-allocation and prepayment handling.

  • 04

    NPA & provisioning

    RBI / CBK / IFRS-9 compliant classification. Automated provisioning. Write-off workflows. Audit-trail every classification decision.

  • 05

    Group lending

    Joint-liability groups, centre meetings, group savings, group-level reporting. Designed for MFIs where group is the unit, not the individual.

  • 06

    Regulator & donor reporting

    Statutory returns for RBI, CBK, CBUAE. Donor reporting for development-finance lenders. Configurable templates for new requirements.

Who deploys this

Built for the operating environments we know best.

We've shipped this platform across the most common patterns — find the closest fit to your operating model.

  • SACCOs & credit unions

    Member-based cooperatives across East and Southern Africa. Group savings, shared liability, dividend mechanics.

  • Microfinance institutions

    MFIs serving the financial inclusion segment. Group lending, joint liability, weekly/fortnightly cycles, agent-network disbursement.

  • NBFCs

    Non-banking financial companies — consumer lending, SME, vehicle finance, gold loans. RBI-aligned provisioning and reporting.

  • Development finance

    DFIs running concessional or development-finance portfolios. Donor reporting, impact metrics, blended-finance accounting.

  • Digital lenders

    App-based lenders needing programmatic disbursement, automated collection and instant decisioning via API.

  • Banks with strong lending books

    Tier-2 and -3 banks where retail lending is a major business unit needing a dedicated LMS alongside the core.

Implementation

How a rollout unfolds.

Phased, milestone-driven, with parallel-run safety nets where regulators require them.

  1. 01Weeks 1–3

    Discovery

    Product catalogue audit, current-state interviews, regulator scan, integration map. Output: written design and fixed-price proposal.

  2. 02Weeks 4–12

    Configuration

    Product factory setup, custom workflows, integration with core / payments / mobile money. Working software in UAT every two weeks.

  3. 03Weeks 8–18 (parallel)

    Data migration

    Loan portfolio extraction from legacy system. Cleansing, validation, three-cycle trial migration before live cutover.

  4. 04Weeks 18–22

    UAT & training

    User acceptance testing, training of branch staff and agents, dry-run with real customers.

  5. 05Week 22

    Go-live

    Phased cutover by branch or product. Parallel run with legacy until reconciliation is clean. Hypercare for 30 days.

  6. 06Ongoing

    Run mode

    24×7 SLA support, quarterly business reviews, regulator-update absorption, new product rollouts.

Solution overview

In depth — how this platform runs.

The long-form view of capability, architecture and deployment model.

> Ridge — our cloud LMS for Kenyan SACCOs is live. Free trial at lms.rediansoftware.com. See Ridge →

Loans, accounted for

Lending portfolios live or die by accounting accuracy. Schedule drift, mis-classified NPAs, missed provisioning, late regulator returns — these are the things that take down lenders, not lack of customers. Our Loan Management System (LMS) is engineered to keep your loan book in audit-ready shape from day one.

Modules in the platform

  • Product configuration — flat / reducing / IRR-based interest, configurable fees, grace periods, repayment cycles (daily, weekly, fortnightly, monthly, custom).
  • Disbursement workflows — single-instalment, multi-tranche, group disbursement with biometric verification at the agent point.
  • Schedule generation — EMI / RPS / IRR / declining-balance with mid-term reschedule support.
  • Collections & repayments — multiple channels (branch, agent, mobile money, ACH), auto-allocation, prepayment handling.
  • NPA & provisioning — RBI / CBK / IFRS-9 compliant classification, automated provisioning, write-off workflows.
  • Group lending — joint liability groups, centre meetings, group savings, group-level reporting.
  • Reporting — portfolio dashboards, regulator returns, donor reports for development-finance lenders.

Why LMS is different from a generic core

A general-purpose core banking system handles loans as one of many products. An LMS is purpose-built for institutions where lending is the entire business — SACCOs, MFIs, credit unions, NBFCs. The accounting nuances (group liability, agent commissions, donor compliance) matter at a level a generic core can't reach.

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Why Redian

What makes this platform different.

Independent reasons clients pick us over incumbents and over generic global platforms.

  • MFI / SACCO purpose-built

    Group lending, agent-network and member mechanics designed in — not retrofitted from a generic banking platform.

  • Regulator-aware classification

    RBI, CBK, IFRS-9 ECL — our platform handles the classification logic the regulator audits, not just the loan-tracking.

  • Built for mobile money rails

    Native M-Pesa, Airtel Money, Tigo Pesa, Orange Money integration. Disbursement and collection through wallets, not just bank rails.

  • Operates at agent scale

    Deployments serving 5,000+ agents across East Africa. Real-time settlement, biometric verification, tamper-evident audit trail.

Tech & integrations

What the platform talks to.

Open APIs, standard integrations, configurable from day one.

  • Java
  • Spring Boot
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Redis
  • Kafka
  • REST APIs
  • M-Pesa
  • Airtel Money
  • Tigo Pesa
  • Orange Money
  • ACH
  • RTGS
  • ISO 20022
  • Biometric SDKs
  • IFRS-9
  • RBI prudential
  • CBK prudential
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Datadog
Proof from production

A deployment that mirrors your use-case.

Real customer · real numbers · real go-live. Most of our work is under NDA — this is one we can share publicly.

BankingAfrica

Core Banking + Digital Channels for a Cameroon-based Bank

Client · Confidential — Cameroon

  • 9 months

    Live in production

  • 250,000+

    Active customers

  • −60%

    Cost-to-serve

Full core banking modernisation plus mobile, internet and agency banking for a Cameroon-based bank — live in 9 months, now serving 250,000+ customers.

Tech stack

JavaSpring BootPostgreSQLKafkaReactKotlinSwiftAWS
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Frequently asked questions

Everything you wanted to ask before the demo.

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What types of lenders use your LMS?

SACCOs, microfinance institutions, credit unions, NBFCs, digital lenders and development-finance institutions. Anyone whose primary product is lending and whose portfolio accuracy matters more than transaction throughput.

Do you support group lending and joint-liability groups (JLG)?

Yes — group lending is a first-class module. JLG creation, centre meetings, group savings, group-level disbursement with biometric verification, group repayment allocation and group-level NPA tracking.

How does NPA classification work in your platform?

RBI-aligned (SMA-0, SMA-1, SMA-2, NPA) for India, CBK Prudential Guidelines for Kenya, IFRS-9 expected credit loss model for international reporting. Configurable thresholds per product. Auto-classification with audit trail.

Can the LMS run standalone or only with your core banking?

Both. We've deployed standalone LMS for MFIs and NBFCs that have their own core or no core. We've also deployed LMS as the lending module within our core banking system. Open APIs make integration with any core straightforward.

Do you support agent-network disbursement and collection?

Yes — agent management, biometric customer verification at the agent point, real-time settlement, tamper-evident audit trails. We've deployed across agent networks of 5,000+ in East Africa.

What's the typical implementation timeline for an LMS?

6–10 months for a mid-size MFI (50K–200K active borrowers). 4–6 months for a smaller institution. Phased rollouts (region-by-region or product-by-product) typically beat big-bang.

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