MFISRO to review indebtedness compliance
Business Standard|October 09, 2024
Micro Finance Industry Network (MFIN), a self-regulatory organisation for the microfinance sector, will review the compliance of its members regarding norms to restrict the number of lenders per borrower to four, and the limit of total microfinance indebtedness to ₹200,000.
ABHIJIT LELE

This exercise would be conducted in November 2024.

Alok Misra, chief executive and director, MFIN, told Business Standard it would carry out a review of the degree of compliance with guardrails based on data sourced from Credit Information Companies. The review will be for the July-September period.

At present, lenders adhere to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) regulations, which cap the ratio of loan repayment obligations to income at 50 per cent.

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