Bharat -  Thanks for sharing this information.  It should be part of the
documentation that we offer at Fineract.

Are these already on Jira tickets?  If so, that's a good first step.
Then, do we move a summary to Asciidoc or to the Apache Fineract wiki "user
pages"?

thanks,
James Dailey



On Fri, Sep 12, 2025 at 10:05 AM Bharath Gowda <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Wilfred and All,
>
> There is no specific feature available for co-lending but Fineract
> offers a new Functionality "Asset Externalization" which allows
> organizations to sell their loans(portfolios) to other Funders.
> But right now it is built only to support 100% of loan Sell and Buybacks
> but doesn't yet support the sharing of two owners to the same loan account.
>
> I believe the current "Asset Externalization" which is fully functional
> can be extended further to support owner sharing based on % as well.
>
> Attached links contains More Details of Asset Externalization for your
> reference
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1G0yXqHx9u-3_3fAH8oeA8T5hHh9Ij4Kp/view?usp=drivesdk
>
>
> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aNrj5ygssOic39J6gRARTdNV5d77ewAs/view?usp=drivesdk
>
> Regards,
> Bharath
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> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025, 5:13 PM Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Co-lending - Split participations are relatively complex.
>>
>> Lender A may be invested at a 9% yield and be the servicer charging
>> serving fees.
>> They may keep late fees or split them based on ownership %.
>> Lender B may be at a 7.5% yield with Lender A retaining rate spread.
>>
>> Participations may have multiple investors . . .  and of course the
>> customer's accounting is NOT impacted in any way by the investor or number
>> of investors.
>> Then there are multiple reporting and compliance requirements to
>> consider.
>>
>> I'm not familiar with what Fineract can support today, but IMO the effort
>> would need a dedicated group/team, servicing domain expert, months of
>> planning and requirement writing, then build and test. Testing would take
>> months and that is assuming +50% or more could be automated.
>>
>> Regards
>> Paul
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM Kigred Developer <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> @Bharath Gowda <[email protected]>
>>>  I am suspecting you could be familiar with the co-lending subject. Do
>>> you think this qualifies as a new feature (or something worthy of being on
>>> a road map)?.
>>> The first time I interfaced with the term, it sounded exotic it sounded
>>> new but a couple of days later after discussing it with a colleague, it
>>> looks like something that can be accomplished by combining a couple
>>> existing features i.e (Accounting and a bit of automation if necessary).
>>>
>>> This is what I have so far understood about CO-LENDING:
>>> 1. BANK A issues a loan to a customer but this loan is not funded by
>>> BANK A alone.
>>> 2. There is another BANK B, that is providing the additional funds to
>>> make this happen (hence the term CO-LENDING).
>>> 3. To simplify it we can assume that BANK A took a loan themselves from
>>> BANK B (payable with interest).
>>> 4. The customer that took the may not even need to know that there is
>>> BANK B in the picture, his only obligation is to repay the loan they took
>>> with interest following the set installments.
>>> 5. Depending on the terms agreed between BANK A and BANK B, every time
>>> the customer makes a repayment to the loan they took, the outstanding
>>> balance will reduce and everything updated (normally), but  additional
>>> accounting entries will be needed, that is BANK A settling their
>>> obligations to BANK B.
>>>
>>> That is all I believe there is to it, am I missing something?
>>> Regards
>>> Wilfred
>>>
>>
>>
>>

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