INDONESIAN authorities have generally opened their arms to fintech companies offering online loans in South-East Asia’s biggest economy, viewing them as a way of getting credit to tens of millions of people often unable to access bank lending.
But the arrival of a wave of predominantly Chinese fintech lenders, who often do not register and employ aggressive debt collection practices, is now alarming regulators.
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