CARE Debt index improves by 33 bps in April on better asset quality

Improvement was backed by enhancements in higher rated debt paper. As it is contemporary with minimum time lags, the health of debt and credit markets is encapsulated on a near-real-time basis

Reflecting an improvement in the asset quality profile of rated entities, the reading on the CARE Debt Quality Index (CDQI) inched up sequentially by 33 basis points to 88.94 in April 2021 from 89.51 in March 2021.

CDQI denotes the quality of debt that can be interpreted over time and juxtaposed with other developments in the financial sector. The CDQI captures, on a scale of 100 (index value for the base year FY12), whether the quality of debt is improving or declining.

Intuitively an upward movement indicates improvement in quality of debt benchmarked against the base year, CARE Ratings said in a