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The guidelines are part of the central bank’s crackdown on loan apps

The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday released guidelines surrounding digital lending in India as part of its efforts to regulate the industry. These are based on recommendations made by a six-member working group on digital lending, which was set up in January last year by the central bank and submitted its report in November.
The RBI has classified digital lenders into three groups:
While the guidelines have addressed each of these …
The acquisition of IDBI Bank puts his Fairfax smack dab in the middle of the RBI’s rules on bank ownership. It must now decide whether to sell CSB Bank or merge the two lenders, neither of which will be easy.
Lenders stand to gain a lot more than borrowers in the current challenging market environment
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