Govt likely to issue clarification to add more borrowers under ECLGS
While bank credit to NBFCs has seen a rise of 30 per cent year on year, credit has mostly flown into larger NBFCs with good parentage and ones with better ALM positions.
The reason we need standardisation is because it will smoothen the process for customers as there won't be any dispute with hospitals, says Bhargav Dasgupta, ICICI Lombard MD & CEO
PE, VC funds domiciled in the island nation on the radar
The meetings were also attended by deputy governors and other senior officers of the central bank, RBI said in a statement on its website
NBFCs may be forced to dig into their cash reserves if systemic liquidity support dries up
According to an Edelweiss report, Rs 1 trillion non-convertible dentures (NCDs) and Rs 1.2 trillion commercial papers (CPs) are due for maturity in May and June
Most banks are yet to decide on giving moratorium to shadow lenders
It is reassuring to see that the deficit target was kept within expected lines and 10 per cent growth in nominal gross domestic product is projected
The stress in the banks and the NBFCs has led to undermining of confidence in the sector
There is a shift in funding sources for NBFCs at present
The RBI is yet to come out with the reference date for loan accounts less than Rs 1,500 crore
Since Yashwant Sinha emphasised on reducing the government's stake in public sector banks, things have only worsened
The problems of these institutions won't go away immediately, but timely proactive steps will limit the damage they cause to financial system.
This is no default caused by liquidity tightness. It could have been avoided had the loans to group companies not been given. Period.
If these do get disclosed, then if a borrower has defaulted for only a day, no bank will again offer him a loan
Sunil Kanoria Vice Chairman, Srei Infrastructure Finance Limited talks about some radical reforms in the banking sector
The crippled non-banking financial companies are hoping for better days in the New Year as they expect liquidity condition to improve on the back of various measures announced by the government and the Reserve Bank. Asset quality pressures, liquidity squeeze, asset-liability mismatches, higher borrowing costs, rising defaults levels and rating downgrades made 2019 a tumultuous year for NBFCs or the shadow banks. Having badly lost a year and more since the industry major IL&FS went belly up in September 2018, NBFCs expect that the fiscal and monetary measures will help them come out of the deep tunnel, and to regain their lost importance in the financial system as they have been the key financial intermediaries delivering the last mile credit to the needy all these while. "The outlook is positive as the government and the RBI have already announced a lot of measures to help the NBFC sector," says Shriram Transport Finance Managing Director Umesh Revankar. To alleviate the stress in
Following NBFCs, HFCs were the second-largest borrowers of funds from the financial system with gross payables of around Rs 5.9 trillion and gross receivables of only Rs 33,110 crore as of end-Sept
Edited excerpts from a discussion at the Business Standard Banking Round Table held in Mumbai