Peer to Peer Lending: Lendbox's flexible withdrawal option was discontinued after RBI’s revised guidelines came into effect from August 16. Co-founder Bhuvan Rustagi sought to reassure investors, saying their funds were safe and merely subject to a changed withdrawal dynamic.
The Reserve Bank of India has kicked off efforts to regulate peer-to-peer (P2P) lending in India. The move is believed to help the funding gap in the market which banks haven‘t been able to service sufficiently well. But what does the model offer?