Shares of two asset management companies (AMCs) jumped 5.76% to 10.57% after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) announced Rs 50,000 crore special liquidity facility for mutual funds (SLF-MF) to deal with liquidity crisis.
HDFC Asset Management Company (up 5.76% to Rs 2565) and Nippon Life India Asset Management (up 10.57% to Rs 239.10) advanced.
Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was up 754.35 points or 2.41% to 32,081.57.
RBI announced on Monday (27 April) that to mitigate the economic impact of COVID-19 and preserve financial stability, it has decided to open a special liquidity facility for mutual funds (SLF-MF) of Rs 50,000 crore.
RBI will conduct repo operations of 90 days tenor at the fixed repo rate. SLF-MF is on-tap and open-ended, and banks can submit their bids to avail funding on any day from Monday to Friday (excluding holidays). The scheme is available from 27 April to 11 May 2020 or up to utilization of the allocated amount, whichever is earlier. RBI will review the timeline and amount, depending upon market conditions.
Funds availed under the SLF-MF shall be used by banks exclusively for meeting the liquidity requirements of MFs by extending loans, and undertaking outright purchase of and/or repos against the collateral of investment grade corporate bonds, commercial papers (CPs), debentures and certificates of deposit (CDs) held by MFs.
Liquidity support availed under the SLF-MF would be eligible to be classified as held to maturity (HTM) even in excess of 25% of total investment permitted to be included in the HTM portfolio. Exposures under this facility will not be reckoned under the Large Exposure Framework (LEF). The face value of securities acquired under the SLF-MF and kept in the HTM category will not be reckoned for computation of adjusted non-food bank credit (ANBC) for the purpose of determining priority sector targets/sub-targets. Support extended to MFs under the SLF-MF shall be exempted from banks' capital market exposure limits.
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