A $27 billion pile of stressed debt looms over India's new bad bank

The new institution, which is set to start operations by end of June, is likely to handle stressed debt worth $27 billionover time, which would be about a quarter of non-performing debt load

A bad bank in India that’s expected to launch this month may help reduce one of the world’s worst bad-loan piles but market participants say it’s a long path ahead.

The new institution, which is set to start operations by the end of June, is likely to handle stressed debt worth 2 trillion rupees ($27 billion) over time, according to a BloombergQuint report. That would be about a quarter of the nation’s non-performing debt load. By housing bad loans of many lenders under one roof, the entity should help speed up decision-making and improve bargaining power when resolving these assets.