{"id":280234,"date":"2025-09-08T08:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/telecom-business\/telecom-regulation\/19025-digital-lending-in-the-spotlight-in-kenya-and-nigeria.html"},"modified":"2025-09-08T08:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T22:14:58","slug":"digital-lending-in-the-spotlight-in-kenya-and-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=280234","title":{"rendered":"Digital lending in the spotlight in Kenya and Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/developingtelecoms.com\/images\/stories\/Places\/Nairobi_West_Downtown_600.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can countries balance access to an undoubtedly popular and convenient service with an effective response to&nbsp;predatory lending practices, data abuse, high interest rates, and aggressive debt collection practices, to name only a few? That\u2019s the question about&nbsp;digital lending&nbsp;that&nbsp;regulators in Kenya and Nigeria are trying to answer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can countries balance access to an undoubtedly popular and convenient service with an effective response to&nbsp;predatory lending practices, data abuse, high interest rates, and aggressive debt collection practices, to name only a few? That\u2019s the ques&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5365],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-regulation"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280235,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280234\/revisions\/280235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}