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Govt outlines multiple steps to prevent operations of illegal loan apps

By ANI | Published: September 09, 2022 3:53 PM

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in a meeting with secretaries and top RBI officials, has outlined multiple steps to prevent operations of illegal loan apps that work outside the regular banking channels.

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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in a meeting with secretaries and top RBI officials, has outlined multiple steps to prevent operations of illegal loan apps that work outside the regular banking channels.

The meeting was attended by Finance Secretary, Economic Affairs Secretary, Revenue & Corporate Affairs (Addl. Charge) Secretary; Financial Services Secretary; Electronics & Information Technology Secretary: RBI Deputy Governor and Executive Director of RBI. The meeting was held on Thursday.

During the meeting, the finance minister expressed concern on increasing instances of illegal loan apps offering loans/micro credits, especially to vulnerable & low-income group people at exorbitantly high-interest rates and processing/hidden charges, and predatory recovery practices involving blackmailing, criminal intimidation etc, according to an official statement released by the Ministry of Finance.

Sitharaman also noted the possibility of money laundering, tax evasion, breach/privacy of data, and misuse of unregulated payment aggregators, shell companies, defunct NBFCs, etc. for perpetrating such actions, the ministry said.

After detailed deliberations on legal, procedural & technical aspects of the issue, it was decided in the meeting that: RBI will prepare a "Whitelist" of all the legal Apps and MeitY will ensure that only these "Whitelist" Apps are hosted on App Stores; RBI will monitor the 'mule/rented' accounts that may be used for money laundering and to review/cancel dormant NBFCs to avoid their misuse and RBI will ensure that registration of payment aggregators be completed within a timeframe and no un-registered payment aggregator be allowed to function after that.

During the meeting, it was also agreed that the Ministry of Corporate Affairs will identify shell companies and de-register them to prevent their misuse and steps should be taken to increase cyber awareness for customers, bank employees, law enforcement agencies and other stakeholders.

The Ministry of Finance will monitor the actionable points for compliance on a regular basis, the ministry said in the statement.

( With inputs from ANI )

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