India: Some lending apps thrive on Google Play despite policy violations

India: Some lending apps thrive on Google Play despite policy violations

India Gate. Photo: Abhidev Vaishnav/unsplash

At least 10 Indian lending apps on Google‘s Play Store, which have been downloaded millions of times, breached Google rules on loan repayment lengths aimed at protecting vulnerable borrowers, according to a Reuters review of such services and more than a dozen users.

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