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Country's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank, which has a focus on the MSME sector, is hiring 500 more relationship managers this fiscal as the bank is expanding its coverage to 575 districts, a senior banker has said. The headcount addition will take the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) vertical strength to 2,500. As of June end, its employee strength stood around 1.23 lakh. The bank's MSME vertical covers 545 districts now with dedicated relationship managers and supervisors, which will be expanded to 575 districts or more by the end of this fiscal. "As we are expanding our MSME footprint to 575 districts from 545 now, we are hiring over 500 more to the 2,000-strong headcount at the MSME vertical this fiscal year. This should take the overall headcount at the vertical to a little over 2,500," Sumant Rampal, senior executive vice-president for business banking & healthcare finance, told PTI on Monday. After reclassification and the resultant tagging of wholesaler ..
State-owned lenders welcome 'need for discipline' but their private competitors say business is suffering
Around 10.9 million MSME borrowers have been provided with guarantee support amounting to Rs 1.65 trillion as of July 2 this year under the ECLGS
Minister for MSME and Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari has emphasized that all-round efforts are required for implementation of various initiatives undertaken as part of Aatmanirbhar Bharat
Relief package is well-intentioned but won't move the needle much
State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has become top performer among public sector lenders in terms of retail and MSME loan growth during 2020-21. The Pune-based lender recorded a 35 per cent growth in MSME loans at Rs 23,133 crore in 2020-21, according to the BoM data. It was followed by the Chennai-based Indian Bank which posted a 15.22 per cent growth in loan disbursal to MSMEs with aggregate loans at Rs 70,180 crore at the end of March 2021. When it came to loans to retail, BoM with nearly 25.61 per cent growth was ahead of even the country's largest lender State Bank of India, which recorded 16.47 per cent rise. However, in absolute terms SBI's asset base to retail segment was a whopping 30 times higher at Rs 8.70 lakh crore as against Rs 28,651 crore of BoM. Bank of Baroda increased its retail loan portfolio by 14.35 per cent to Rs 1.20 lakh crore during the last fiscal year, the data showed. For the full year 2020-21, BoM's standalone net profit jumped nearly 42 per cent
The Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC) has urged the Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSME) to address issues faced by MSME borrowers and the NBFCs catering to these enterprises.
In an exclusive interview with Business Standard, Jaspal Bindra, executive chairman of Centrum group said it has committed Rs 1,800 cr capital to the SFB, Rs 900 cr of which will come in first year
On the client side, the bank is largely comfortable as 85 per cent of retail customers work with companies rated and above , where job losses have been low
The unsuccessful auto-debit requests through the NACH platform are generally referred to as bounce rates
Exporters in the MSME segment have sought PM Narendra Modi's intervention on rising steel prices, stating that the industry needs inputs at affordable rates for global markets.
Union minister Nitin Gadkari on Saturday stressed on increasing the share of the MSME sector in the country's GDP to 40 per cent from 30 per cent currently.
RBI's forecast for growth is 10.5% for the current fiscal year. Most analysts expect the RBI to lower it in the June 4 monetary policy announcement
While players in the financial ecosystem are opening up to the idea of receivables funding for the sector, this market needs a regulator, which a Parliament panel feels only RBI can provide
In its suggestions to the finance ministry, the Federation of Indian Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises has said the greatest need that has emerged is the flexibility in assigning NPAs
The impact of restrictions will be felt on retail loans-banks as well as NBFCs and HFCs
A notable feature of the ordinance is the pre-packaged process' two-step voting structure
In regulations issued on the Ordinance on pre-pack resolution, the IBBI said an insolvency professional can be appointed as resolution professional if they are independent of the corporate debtor.
The latest move comes less than two weeks after the suspension of certain IBC provisions ended