The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) may grant non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) access to the public tech platform for frictionless credit (PTPFC). Earlier this week, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das announced that the PTPFC would be rebranded as the Unified Lending Interface. He compared its potential impact on lending to the transformation brought by the Unified … Read more
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday during the keynote speech at a special session of Global Fintech Fest 2024 held in Mumbai said that there is festivity in economy and markets. PM further said that the fintech revolution is everywhere. He said there was a time when people used to get amazed by our cultural … Read more
Self-regulation is the way to regulate fintech companies, according to Reserve Bank of India (RBI) deputy governor T. Rabi Sankar. Speaking at the Global Fintech Fest on Tuesday, Sankar said that fintech companies are not strictly financial entities and, therefore, the current model of regulation may not apply to these companies. “Regulators and fintech firms … Read more
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has said that the financial technology, or fintech, sector should organise itself under a self-regulatory organisation that can monitor the conduct of member fintech entities. Addressing an international research conference on fintechs on Friday, co-organised by IIM-Ahmedabad, RBI deputy governor MK Jain said that a self-regulatory approach could also help … Read more
London-based fintech Revolut posted its first annual profit for the year ending 2021. The neo-bank almost tripled its revenue in 2021 amid a boom in cryptocurrency trading. Despite repeatedly missing reporting deadlines, Revolut could soon cinch a UK banking license. Revolut, the London-based fintech firm, has posted its first annual profit after missing multiple deadlines … Read more
The modified guidelines on digital lending by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will come into effect from Thursday, 1 December. The digital lending modified guidelines aim to protect customers from exorbitant interest rates and keep a check on unethical loan recovery practices. As per the new norms, all loan disbursals and repayments are to … Read more
Sachin Bansal-led Navi Technologies has filed draft papers for an initial public offering (IPO) with Sebi. The IPO comprises of fresh equity issue of up to ₹3,350 crore, according to the draft offer document. Sachin Bansal’s Navi Technologies is a technology-driven financial products and services company in India focusing on the digitally connected young middle-class … Read more
Bolt, a San Francisco fintech startup that provides an online checkout solution for other companies, is still in talks to raise new money at a valuation of $14 billion, according to a source familiar with the matter. The deal comes only weeks after Bolt closed $355 million in a Series E round, valuing it at … Read more
The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) is open to looking at solutions that can enable ‘partial authentication’ where needed, and is keen to get feedback from the industry about the demand for such solutions, its CEO Saurabh Garg said on Tuesday. The Aadhaar-issuing body is also exploring possibilities for the usage of blockchain and … Read more