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RBI eases lending norms, tightens financial oversight

MUMBAI: RBI has set about easing lending norms while tightening its financial oversight. Its latest rules promise cheaper and more flexible loans for borrowers, wider access to credit against gold, and easier capital-raising avenues for banks.Draft proposals, meanwhile, would extend repayment terms, sharpen exposure limits and quicken credit reporting to bureaus to weekly from monthly…

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RBI tightens rules for offline payments

MUMBAI: RBI on Sept 15 issued new directions for payment aggregators (PAs), mandating stricter merchant vetting and extending oversight to physical payments.RBI’s directions make PAs the first line of defense against fraud by requiring stronger KYC and risk-based due diligence, with larger merchants facing tighter checks. For the first time, offline PAs handling proximity payments…

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