Tag: Financial

  • Payments Regulatory Board: Merits and Criticisms

    [Tishya Saran and Aayush Grover are both 5th year students of Government Law College, Mumbai] Introduction The Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”) and the Central Government seem to be embroiled in a regulatory tussle. It all started when an Inter-Ministerial Committee (the “Committee”) set up by the Department of Economic Affairs, in a report published by it

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  • Regulating India’s FinTech

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  • Securitization: ‘True Sale’ of Receivables

    In order to make a securitization transaction bankruptcy-proof with respect to the originator (seller) of receivables, it is necessary that there is a ‘true sale’ of the receivables to the assignee (purchaser). Failing this, the transaction could be recharacterized as a secured loan, thereby altering the rights and obligations of the parties under law (sometimes

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