Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, December 2025 – Manu Prakash has been appointed as Group Chief Financial Officer at WeRize, marking a key leadership addition to one of India’s fastest-growing socially distributed fintech platforms. In his new role, Manu will lead WeRize’s finance, capital markets, governance, and long-term financial strategy as the company scales its profitable operations across India’s emerging middle-class markets.
In his most recent leadership assignment, Manu served with CredAble for over four years, where he held senior responsibilities as Managing Director and Head of Debt & Capital Markets and Financial Institutions. During this tenure, he played a pivotal role in building large-scale structured finance programs, strengthening lender partnerships, and advancing capital market instruments that enabled scalable working-capital financing for MSMEs and financial institutions.
Prior to CredAble, Manu spent several years with Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) Asia Pacific, where he led trade finance and product strategy for India. In this role, he was instrumental in driving product innovation, expanding institutional partnerships, and strengthening structured trade finance solutions across large enterprise and mid-market segments.
Earlier in his career, Manu held leadership roles at HSBC and Standard Chartered Bank, where he built deep expertise across global trade finance, receivables financing, portfolio management, and corporate banking. He also served with ICICI Bank and Maruti Suzuki India Limited, gaining early-career exposure to asset finance, business banking, and commercial operations that shaped his holistic understanding of financial services and enterprise growth.
Manu Prakash holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), strengthening his foundation in international business, finance, and strategic management.
WeRize is a profitable growth-stage fintech platform creating India’s first socially distributed full-stack financial services ecosystem focused on emerging middle-class families across 5,000+ small cities. The company manufactures and distributes customized mortgages, unsecured credit, insurance, and savings products through a network of 10,000+ financially literate freelancers operating across 2,500+ cities. Backed by leading global and Indian investors including British International Investment, Sony Japan, 3one4 Capital and Picus, WeRize is redefining access to financial services through a scalable, high-touch, technology-enabled social distribution model.
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