{"id":959065,"date":"2025-09-03T08:55:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T03:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=959065"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T04:05:12","slug":"irdai-hardens-stance-no-insurance-licence-to-vc-backed-fintechs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/03\/irdai-hardens-stance-no-insurance-licence-to-vc-backed-fintechs\/","title":{"rendered":"Irdai hardens stance: No insurance licence to VC-backed fintechs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Venture-backed fintech startups are finding the doors to an insurance manufacturing licence getting shut, as the sector regulator is hardening its stance on applications submitted by such companies.<\/p>\n<p>The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) is not allowing startups which are backed by venture capital firms, and are not promoter-driven, to secure an insurance manufacturing licence, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venture-backed fintech startups are finding the doors to an insurance manufacturing licence getting shut, as the sector regulator is hardening its stance on applications submitted by such companies. The Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (Irdai) is not allowing startups which are backed by venture capital firms, and are not promoter-driven, to secure an insurance manufacturing licence, according to three people with knowledge of the matter.<\/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-959065","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\/959065","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=959065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}