{"id":217157,"date":"2022-12-05T20:35:52","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=217157"},"modified":"2022-12-05T20:35:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T15:05:52","slug":"first-loss-default-guaranteefldg-system-digital-lending-no-clarity-awaiting-rbi-response-say-bank-fintechs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-loss-default-guaranteefldg-system-digital-lending-no-clarity-awaiting-rbi-response-say-bank-fintechs\/","title":{"rendered":"First Loss Default Guarantee(FLDG) system: Digital lending &#8211; No clarity, awaiting RBI response, say bank &#038; fintechs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201c<\/b><b>Digital lending: No clarity, awaiting RBI response, say bank &amp; fintechs<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on<b> 5th December 2022<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two months after the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/digital-lending-and-its-regulation\/\">Reserve Bank issued guidelines on digital lending,<\/a> banks, non-banking financial companies and fintech players are still awaiting clarity on many aspects including the <\/span><b>First Loss Default Guarantee(FLDG) system.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the First Loss Default Guarantee(FLDG) system?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FLDG is a lending model between a fintech and a regulated entity in which a third party guarantees to compensate up to a certain percentage of default in a loan portfolio of the regulated entities(RE).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under these agreements, the fintech originates a loan and promises to compensate the partners up to a pre-decided percentage in case customers fail to repay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The bank\/NBFC partners lend through fintech but from their own books. FLDG helps expand the customer base of traditional lenders but relies on the fintech&#8217;s underwriting capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What are the concerns related to FLDG?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the report by the RBI-constituted working group on digital lending, the group laid down the risks of FLDG agreements with unregulated entities. The other concern is that FLDG costs are often passed on to customers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cDigital lending: No clarity, awaiting RBI response, say bank &amp; fintechs\u201d published in Indian Express on 5th December 2022 What is the News? Two months after the Reserve Bank issued guidelines on digital lending, banks, non-banking financial companies and fintech players are still awaiting clarity on many&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/first-loss-default-guaranteefldg-system-digital-lending-no-clarity-awaiting-rbi-response-say-bank-fintechs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">First Loss Default Guarantee(FLDG) system: Digital lending &#8211; No clarity, awaiting RBI response, say bank &#038; fintechs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,3127,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-217157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-economy","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1703938130},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}