{"id":1001063,"date":"2026-04-04T08:30:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001063"},"modified":"2026-04-04T09:50:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:20:12","slug":"are-stricter-rules-holding-back-fintech-startups-qed-investors-nigel-morris-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/are-stricter-rules-holding-back-fintech-startups-qed-investors-nigel-morris-weighs-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Are stricter rules holding back fintech startups? QED Investors&#8217; Nigel Morris weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regulatory tightening in India\u2019s fintech sector has created near-term challenges for startups, particularly in the early stage, QED Investors\u2019 co-founder and managing partner Nigel Morris told ET during an exclusive interaction. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Indian regulator has been quite intentional about their direction\u2026 in a more permissive environment, fintechs tend to get ahead of regulators. Over the last few years, regulators have taken a more assertive stance,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p>Morris said the assertive stance has made it harder for early-stage fintechs to scale quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulatory tightening in India\u2019s fintech sector has created near-term challenges for startups, particularly in the early stage, QED Investors\u2019 co-founder and managing partner Nigel Morris told ET during an exclusive interaction. \u201cThe Indian regulator has been quite intentional about their direction\u2026 in a more permissive environment, fintechs tend to get ahead of regulators. Over the last few years, regulators have taken a more assertive stance,\u201d he said. Morris said the assertive stance has made it harder for early-stage fintechs to scale quickly.<\/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-1001063","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\/1001063","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=1001063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}