Best of BS Opinion: Regulating digital lending, globalisation shocks & more

Here are the top BS Opinion articles of the day

Here is the best of Business Standard’s opinion pieces for Friday

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has published the first set of norms to regulate digital lending. In this context our lead editorial notes that, while the norms sensible, the RBI could also ensure greater transparency by mandating all fees and charges be clearly disclosed and it could regularly release aggregated and anonymised data to give a sense of market size and growth rates. Read here

Forecasts of economic doom are premature and central bank-bashing is misplaced, writes T T Ram Mohan. Read here

Arvind Subramanian and Josh Felman argue that three shocks to globalisation have squeezed opportunities for China while enlarging them for India. Read here

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“May God save the Election Commission of India if it can only wring its hands when electorates are sought to be bribed through freebies.”

 

Supreme Court of India