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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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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