
Background
Of India’s overall credit market, non-banking financial companies (“NBFCs”) command a 22% share[1], primarily catering to underserved sectors and providing retail loans, particularly to small businesses and households. As NBFCs have become systemically important for the economy, they have been subject to increased regulatory oversight by the Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”), evidenced by the introduction of scale-based regulations, which prescribe differential regulatory norms basis size and scale of the NBFC. This FIG paper explores the recent regulatory trends in this sector.Continue Reading FIG Paper (No. 42 – Series 1) – Regulatory Trends in NBFC Sector