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Indian cenbank issues draft guidelines for web aggregators of loan products
India's central bank on Friday released draft guidelines for a regulatory framework for the aggregation of loan products by lending service providers (LSP) to enhance transparency and enable borrowers to have prior information about potential lenders. LSPs are entities that are engaged by banks or non-banking finance companies (NBFC) to carry out some of lenders' functions like customer acquisition, underwriting and loan recovery, among others, on digital platforms. In some cases, a regulated
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First Amendment Law Firm Recruiting TikTok Creators To Challenge Possible Ban: Report
TikTok has already announced it is planning legal action against the divestiture bill recently signed by President Joe Biden.
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Vietnam National Assembly head resigns amid graft purge
The head of Vietnam's National Assembly has resigned, the ruling Communist Party said Friday, one of the most senior leaders to fall in a sweeping anti-corruption purge.Hue was one of Vietnam's four most powerful leaders as head of the one-party state's rubber-stamp national assembly.
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Xi tells Blinken US, China should be 'partners, not rivals'
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world's biggest economies should be "partners, not rivals" as the two sides pressed for headway on a range of concerns. "The two countries should be partners, not rivals," Xi said.
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London stocks hit new record peak on takeovers
London's stock market fired its way to another record peak on Friday, with investors gripped by a series of eye-catching takeovers this week for listed UK companies.We've had new record highs, yet more takeover action, and everyone is talking about UK stocks in a positive way," said Russ Mould, investment director at AJ Bell.
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EU toughens safety rules on Chinese fashion retailer Shein
The European Union on Friday added Chinese-founded online retailer Shein to its list of digital companies that are large enough to come under stricter safety curbs.The company joins Facebook, TikTok, X, YouTube in a list of 23 "very large online platforms", which have more than 45 million monthly active users in the European Union.
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Heatstroke kills 30 in Thailand this year as Southeast Asia bakes
Millions of people across South and Southeast Asia sweltered through unusually hot weather on Thursday, as the Thai government said heatstroke has already killed at least 30 people this year.April is typically the hottest time of the year in Thailand and other countries in Southeast Asia but conditions this year have been exacerbated by the El Nino weather pattern.
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