Arcil acquires non-performing loans from banks and financial institutions along with the underlying securities mortgaged or hypothecated by borrowers to the lenders.
Asset Reconstruction Company has acquired bad debts totalling Rs 805 crore (Rs 8.05 billion) from ICICI Bank and National Housing Bank (NHB) and is close to finalising 2-3 more deals including public sector lenders, a top ARCIL official said.
ICICI Bank, the country's second largest bank, has sold roughly 45 per cent of its sticky home loans to the Asset Reconstruction Company India Ltd (Arcil) in a first step towards creating a market for retail loans that have turned bad.ICICI Bank sold Rs 360 crore of non-performing home loans at a price around the book cost, confirmed Rajiv Sabharwal, senior general manager, ICICI Bank.
Only if there are more asset reconstruction companies will banks be more comfortable with the valuations
The Asset Reconstruction Company of India Ltd, promoted by the State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, IDBI and other banks, is slated to start operation by the middle of this month.
The amount of banks' non-performing assets (NPAs) or bad loans brought into the market for sale has more than doubled in the past four years.
As part of its expansion drive in the high-potential Indian financial services market, Barclays Bank plans to pick up a 10 per cent stake in asset reconstruction company, ARCIL, from domestic banking major ICICI Bank.\n\n
The contract was cancelled two weeks ago due to the delay in the delivery of the vessels, sources said. The contract to build five warships was signed with the company in 2011, much before the Reliance Group took over the Gujarat-based shipyard from its erstwhile owner Nikhil Gandhi.
The RBI rejection is a second blow to BoB - the lead bank of both companies -- after a Delhi high court order on August 18 stayed a move by BoB and the entire consortium of lenders to classify these accounts as fraud, restraining them from taking any other coercive action till the next hearing.
Defaults due to rising rates resulted in the move.
The account turned bad before Chaudhari took over as SBI chairman and the asset was sold to AARC following an open bidding process, months after Chaudhari retired, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
When the third round of bids was opened, Oaktree's offer was the highest, but with several riders. While Piramal offered higher upfront cash and offered to merge its financial business with DHFL, Adani was ranked third in the race, reports Dev Chatterjee.
You get a 45-day repayment window and reward points. But inability to pay back on time can be a problem.
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