{"id":1001050,"date":"2026-04-04T08:24:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001050"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:14:54","slug":"ai-disruption-inflation-risks-could-tighten-lending-environment-qeds-nigel-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/ai-disruption-inflation-risks-could-tighten-lending-environment-qeds-nigel-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"AI disruption, inflation risks could tighten lending environment: QED\u2019s Nigel Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global fintech investor and Capital One founder Nigel Morris expects lending companies to turn cautious in the coming months as inflationary pressures rise amid geopolitical tensions, even as he remains bullish on India\u2019s long-term fintech opportunity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe primary impact will be that lending businesses will tighten across the board,\u201d Morris, cofounder and managing partner of QED Investors, told ET during an interaction, adding that several portfolio companies have already begun tightening underwriting standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global fintech investor and Capital One founder Nigel Morris expects lending companies to turn cautious in the coming months as inflationary pressures rise amid geopolitical tensions, even as he remains bullish on India\u2019s long-term fintech opportunity. \u201cThe primary impact will be that lending businesses will tighten across the board,\u201d Morris, cofounder and managing partner of QED Investors, told ET during an interaction, adding that several portfolio companies have already begun tightening underwriting standards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001050\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}