Our response to the RBI’s Draft framework for recognising Self-Regulatory Organisations (SRO) for FinTech Sector
Our response covers two themes:
Leading from a customer protection perspective, our comments emphasise the need for the prospective SRO to have duties towards the customers, at par with responsibilities towards the regulator.
Moving towards harmonisation in financial regulation: Let’s start with capital
Higher capital adequacy norms locking up funds
How mental models interplay with consent: Unpacking challenges to informed consent
This blog is about a behavioural study conducted jointly by Dvara Research and Final Mile to uncover mental models that may nudge customers to disengage with consent screens.
The behavioural mechanics that make notice-and-consent models ineffective
In this post, we present our findings from our literature review based on which we conducted the behavioural study.
RBI must accommodate fintech innovations, not ban them
An RBI Working Group has suggested that lending service providers be disallowed from providing credit enhancements such as FLDG (first-loss-default-guarantee). However, a risk-proportionate regulation of FLDG could address its risks, while allowing the ecosystem to benefit from innovation.
Why RBI’s Decision to Mandate Core Banking Solutions May Hurt NBFCs
The RBI’s Scale Based Regulation (SBR): A Revised Regulatory Framework for NBFCs mandates a Core Banking Solution (CBS) for all NBFCs with more than 10 branches
A Potential Regulatory Approach to Creditworthiness Assessments in Microfinance
In this post, we revisit the issue of over-indebtedness in microfinance and provide a set of suggestions to address them
Our Response to RBI’s Discussion paper on Revised Regulatory Framework for NBFCs – A Scale-Based Approach, 2021
In this blog post, we share our responses submitted to the RBI to the questions posed in the discussion paper
Regulatory and Supervisory Approaches for NBFCs
Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) play a critical role in the credit ecosystem by acting as last-mile financiers for the unbanked and underserved segments of the Indian economy,
Expanding Access To Bank Credit By Building The NBFC Periphery
he current approach is making NBFCs safer but requiring banks to become riskier, write Nachiket Mor and Dwijaraj Bhattacharya.
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