Other side of financialisation: Unsecured loans flowing into stock market?

There's been a dramatic rise in loans against gold in the past one year, but growth in unsecured loans is slowing. Bank loans to the NBFC sector have also dipped

Going beyond moral suasion, the RBI had, last November, jacked up the risk weightage for unsecured loans from 100 per cent to 125 per cent. This raised the capital requirement for such loans and made them costlier for borrowers

  Nine out of 10 individual traders lost money in the futures and options (F&O) segment of the stock market in three years between 2021-2022 (FY22) and FY24, a study by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) points out. An estimated 11.3 million retail investors collectively lost Rs 1.81 trillion during the three years (an average of Rs 2