Comments on the Draft Amendment Directions Non-Banking Financial Companies – Registration, Exemptions and Framework for Scale Based Regulation, dated 10 April 2026
On 10 April 2026, the Reserve Bank of India released the “Draft – Reserve Bank of India (Non-Banking Financial Companies – Registration, Exemptions and Framework for Scale Based Regulation) Second Amendment Directions, 2026”. The Draft Amendments provide a new methodology to classify Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) in the Upper Layer of the scale-based regulatory framework, […]
Comments to the Discussion Paper – Exploring safeguards in digital payments to curb frauds
In this response, we present our comments to the paper. We divide our comments into three sections.
Remedies for digital payment frauds
Static safeguards, targeting discrete acts of fraud, will only spur fraudsters to probe other vulnerabilities
Developing a Mechanism for ‘Market Monitoring of Customer-facing Issues with Unified Payments Interface (UPI)’
Under the Center for Customer Protection, Dvara Research has been working on developing a market monitoring tool that leverages social media data to identify customer-facing issues with India’s leading payment infrastructure, the Unified Payments Interface (UPI).
