“The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” – William Gibson, Neuromancer (1984). Regarded as the earliest and best-known works in the cyberpunk genre, through...
Published On: 01/10/2017
Practice Area: Banking & Finance, Technology, Media & Telecommunications
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The Reserve Bank of India (the 'RBI') by way of a notification dated August 24, 2017, notified that a non-banking institution that carries on 'the business of a peer to peer lending platform' shall be a non-banking financial company (the 'Notification'). The RBI has issued the Notification pursuant to Section 45-I(f)(iii) of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (the 'RBI Act') which confers power on the RBI to include any non-banking institution or class of such institutions within the definition of a 'non-banking financial company' (an 'NBFC') with the prior approval of the Central Government.
