Rising failures in China’s peer-to-peer lending industry may pressure authorities to regulate a segment of Internet finance that almost quadrupled in size last year. The number of platforms that went bankrupt or had difficulty repaying money climbed to 275 in 2014 from 76 a year earlier, according to Yingcan Group, which tracks China’s more than 1,500 online lending sites.
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