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Anchor-Led vs Platform-Led SCF Models: Which Works Better for Banks?

For a bank building a supply chain finance (SCF) business, the first strategic choice is not the software. It is the operating model. An anchor-led programme gives the bank control...

Co-Lending Models: The Operational Backbone Banks and NBFCs Need

A co-lending arrangement between a bank and an NBFC (non-banking financial company) sounds simple on a term sheet: two lenders, one borrower, one agreed split of the loan. In practice,...

BNPL for SMEs: How B2B Buy Now Pay Later Actually Gets Underwritten

B2B buy now pay later is one of several models designed to provide short-tenor working capital at the point of a business transaction. In India, its regulatory treatment depends on...

AI Governance in Lending: Building the Guardrails Before You Build the Model

Model hallucinations and unreliable outputs were among the top two AI risks cited by 67% of AI vendors, 70% of surveyed financial institutions and 70% of regulators in the Cambridge...

Reverse Factoring Explained: How It Works and Where It Fits in Supply Chain Finance

Global supply chain finance volume reached an estimated $2.462 trillion in 2024, up 8%, while funds in use rose 5% to $942 billion, according to BCR Publishing’s World Supply Chain...

Data Privacy in Lending: The DPDP Act and What It Means for Lenders

A lender may hold identity documents, income data, bureau reports, bank statements, device information and repayment histories across several systems and service providers. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023...

RBI Digital Lending Guidelines: What They Mean for Loan Origination Platforms

Digital NBFCs sanctioned 13.2 crore loans worth ₹2.15 lakh crore in FY2025-26, according to FACE’s March 2026 report. At that scale, the RBI (Digital Lending) Directions, 2025 make fund-flow, disclosure...

Why Legacy LMS Platforms Struggle with Multi-Product Lending

In June 2025, the RBI revised the qualifying-assets criterion for NBFC-MFIs, requiring qualifying assets to constitute at least 60% of total assets net of intangible assets. The change gives institutions...

Single Customer Exposure View: Why It Matters for Modern Lenders

A borrower walks into a bank’s SME branch for a working capital loan. Six months later, the same borrower’s group entity draws down a supply chain finance facility through a...

How Business Rule Engines (BRE) Improve Underwriting Speed and Control

The 2026 Global AI in Financial Services Report found that 79% of surveyed regulators considered explainability and interpretability important or critical to their objectives, while only 50% of surveyed financial...

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