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Centre proposes bill to ban unregulated lendingThe government drafted a bill to combat illegal lending. The bill proposes a 10-year jail term and a ₹1 crore penalty for violators. An onl...
How to sidestep the great app trap: Instant money, dire resultsDigital loans have become increasingly popular in India, with a 49% surge in disbursements in the financial year 2023-24. However, this gro...
RBI mulls to set up Digital India Trust Agency to check illegal lending appsThe Reserve Bank of India is considering establishing a Digital India Trust Agency (DIGITA) to combat cyber fraud and illegal lending apps....
India's government blocked 174 betting and gambling sitesThe Indian government has blocked 581 applications, including 174 betting and gambling app, Pankaj Chaudhury, the minister of state for fin...
Bihar police reach out to IT ministry seeking ban on 100 gambling, gaming and illegal loan appsThe Economic Offences Unit (EOU) of Bihar police recently approached Meity urging it to ban more than 100 such apps, Nayyar Hasnain Khan, A...
Chase India report proposes self-regulatory organisation for digital lending industryThe report on whitelisting framework for digital lending apps (DLAs) intends to support the industry, as it will add legitimacy to the prac...
ED attaches Rs 859 cr proceeds of crime in illegal loan app cases: MoS FinanceIn a written reply to a query in Rajya Sabha, Karad said Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has furnished the list of Digital Lending Apps (DLAs) ...
Illegal digital lending apps driving citizens to suicide, says Ministry of Home AffairsThe ministry has noted that "many of these illegal lending apps may not be regulated entities by RBI and are using bulk SMS, digital advert...
Home Ministry asks states, UTs to take urgent action against predatory Chinese lending appsIt said a large number of complaints have been reported across India related to illegal digital lending apps that provide short-term loans ...
Google faces pressure from government to help curb illegal lending apps: reportEven though Google doesn't fall under the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) ambit, the US tech giant has been called several times in the last ...
Borrowing money via digital apps? Know your rights to avoid being exploitedThe RBI digital lending guidelines will be applicable to the digital lending by banks, co-operative banks, NBFCs including housing finance ...
Reserve Bank of India to prepare "whitelist" as government cracks down on illegal loan appsThis comes after Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday held detailed deliberations in respect with legal, procedural & technical ...
Govt asks RBI for list of legal lending apps; interview with Zomato cofounder Mohit GuptaTwitter agreed in June to pay $7 million to settle a compensation dispute with the whistleblower whose allegations will be part of Elon Mus...
India to prepare a 'whitelist' of digital lending appsThe central bank has been asked to prepare a list of legal digital lending apps while the government will help ensure that only such apps c...
RBI to issue whitelist of all legal loan apps, app stores can host only theseFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to prepare a list of all the legal loan applications
RBI to soon come out with regulatory architecture on digital lending platforms"I think very soon we will be coming out with a broad regulatory architecture, which should be able to address the challenges that we are c...
RBI releases report of working group on digital lending; here are the recommendationsA working group constituted by the Reserve Bank of India on digital lending through online platforms and mobile apps has submitted its repo...