New regulatory rules, softer freight rates and a liquidity crunch at non-bank lenders are among the reasons.
The recently approved government scheme provides both liquidity and returns.
As per the RBI Act, the central bank has to have four deputy governors.
If banks won't lend, seek a loan from fintech lenders or P2P platforms to help you get out of a debt trap.
Focus on large-caps and ensure that the portfolio is balanced.
The committee said that to qualify as an NBFC-MFI, an NBFC should provide financial services predominantly to low-income borrowers.
The underperformance comes amid liquidity concerns in the non-banking finance companies space and Essel Group default news.
'We have great demographics, and are the fastest growing large economy. And we save.' 'All of which is great for financial services,' Aditya Birla Capital CEO Ajay Srinivasan tells Niraj Bhatt.
To attract capital into infrastructure projects, the ratings system needs a fresh look.
'What is critical today in India is confidence of depositors.' 'If you have these kinds of problems spreading like this, the confidence level of a lot of people in the system gets shaken.'
'We are probably working with flawed data on household finance.'
YES Bank, Bank of Baroda, SBI, IndusInd Bank, and RBL Bank are amongst the banks, Jefferies says, are most prune to "high risk" emanating from ADAG, Cox & Kings, CG Power, DHFL and Essar Shipping.
The combined interest payment for India's top listed companies, excluding financial and oil and gas firms, was up 15.2 per cent year-on-year during the six months ended March 2019, outpacing the change in net sales and operating profit.
Godhwani's exit comes at a time when the company's fund raising plans and proposed related party transactions are under scrutiny, says N Sundaresha Subramanian.
'...and defensive until the global macro headwinds turn more benign.'
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Banking as we know it will stand on its head in the next 10 years.
The Indian regulatory framework forced Citi to hibernate -- contrary to the claim that it never sleeps!
The Andhra Pradesh police have issued an "international lookout notice" against JM Financial chairman Nimesh Kampani and 17 others in a case involving Nagarjuna Finance, the non-banking finance company of the Nagarjuna group.
Credit to priority sectors as well as small and medium industries will be discussed to find ways to accelerate economic growth.
The stressed asset business will be a mix of an ARC and a distressed asset fund. Ambit has already started insurance brokerage and equity research and sales businesses this year. It closed a $100-million private equity fund called Ambit Pragma Ventures recently. It is also keen on starting proprietary trading.
India may soon see a new set of oil barons with lesser-known companies venturing into crude oil and natural gas production. These new kids on the block have come up through a mix of entrepreneurial grit and backing from oil industry veterans. Nippon Power, South Asia Consultancy, PFH (Poddar Family Holdings) Resources and Chennai-based Adbhoot Estates could be the first ones to start production from blocks awarded during the first round of Discovered Small Field (DSF-1) auctions. Adbhoot is in a 50:50 joint venture with the Bombay Stock Exchange-listed Hindustan Oil Exploration Company that has some five oil producing assets and over 10 blocks across the country.
'Stick to FDs of shorter tenures, preferably one-two years.'
While public sector banks have managed to maintain a growth of over 25 per cent during the year up to February, private and foreign banks have seen their growth in loan books shrink to single-digit rates on a year-on-year basis, as against over 20 per cent at the end of September, when the credit crisis intensified.
The decline is attributed to lower salary growth and a rise in households' financial liabilities.
The stock market may be at a new high this month, but there isn't much reason to cheer if the "early bird" financial results of companies are anything to go by.
During the fourth quarter (January-March), banks step up the activity to meet annual targets. This leads to a race to raise funds from markets often by jacking up deposit rates. This time around, the market has not seen such trend yet.
Not surprisingly, equity investors are bidding-up stock prices across sectors and the broader market is now more valuable than pre-Covid levels.
But experts say downside limited, pockets of opportunities for investors
Gross bad loans of banks may rise from 6.9 per cent in September 2021 to 8.1-9.5 per cent by September 2022 if the Omicron variant strikes the economy hard, as per the financial stability report of the Reserve Bank released on Wednesday. The report also said that the rising stress level in the retail loan portfolio of banks -- the mainstay of bank credit for many years now -- was led by home loans, which grew in double-digits so far this fiscal. While asset quality improved, with gross non-performing assets (GNPA) and net NPA (NNPA) ratios declining to 6.9 and 2.3 per cent, respectively, in September 2021, the slippage ratio inched up during the same period as private sector banks showed a higher rate of deterioration in asset quality, as per the report.
You would find NBFCs more willing to lend even if you have a poor credit score, says Adhil Shetty
Banks get bonds boost to raise funds for core sector; up to Rs 50 lakh of home loans in metros and Rs 40 lakh in other cities not to have CRR, SLR requirements
Heading to the third year, will Urjit Patel be busy firefighting a currency crisis? Almost no governor of the RBI managed to evade it and Patel perhaps knows it.
