Tarabut, MENA’s leading open banking platform, has announced a new partnership with FLOOSS, a Bahrain-based digital lending platform.
FLOOSS is reportedly the “first” and fastest digital loan app in Bahrain “offering consumer loans of up to BHD 750 with a repayment period of up to 12 months.”
This partnership supports Bahrain’s first open banking-enabled digital lending service. The collaboration “streamlines FLOOSS’s digital lending experience and significantly reduces loan approval times to a mere few minutes using Tarabut’s Income Verification product.”
The loan approval process has “been reduced to just minutes, a drastic change from the prior two-week process.”
By leveraging open banking APIs, the newly launched product “enables instant loan approvals, eliminating the previous, conventional, days-long approval process.”
FLOOSS approached Tarabut with “the goal of providing its customers with a seamless lending journey: offering easier access, saving both money and time, enhancing security, and digitising a traditional manual journey.”
Tarabut transformed the customer journey “via direct access to customers’ salary information, eliminating the need for manual salary certificate submissions during the application process.”
Abdulla Almoayed, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tarabut, said:
“We are proud to announce our latest partnership with FLOOSS; one of Bahrain’s leading lending platforms. Together, we are promoting financial inclusion and developing Bahrain’s financial infrastructure, in line with the country’s plans for a robust financial ecosystem. Everyone should have access to affordable and efficient lending facilities, and this partnership is a crucial step towards that goal.”
Fawaz Ghazal, Chief Executive Officer of FLOOSS, said:
“The customer lending experience and journey must be reimagined; customers expect more from their financial service providers. Working with the team at Tarabut, FLOOSS has been able to implement a customer-first solution that improves lending processing times to a few minutes and more seamlessly than any other lenders, anytime and anywhere. We are proud of the innovative work and look forward to more announcements with our partner, Tarabut, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia soon.”
Sharing her experience, Nour, an applicant of FLOOSS’s loans said:
“The application is perfect; I’m so proud that we have such an app in Bahrain. It is an advanced and innovative tool for all young Bahrainis. My experience with the app was one of ease, and it is very convenient as anyone who matches the eligibility criteria can apply for a loan. Knowing that it is licensed by the Central Bank of Bahrain (CBB) made me feel safe and secure throughout the experience.”