Lending

The Fed's report showed that by bank size, lending decreased $23.5 billion at the 25 largest domestically chartered banks in the latest two weeks

"The bank is also upping its focus on the structured finance offerings, whose contribution in the overall wholesale book is in low single-digits at present and growing the same"

Bankers say private infra offtake slow; much of funding is via public funds

The funds will be used to further lend to microfinance institutions and self-help groups, a senior official at SBI, who declined to be named, told Reuters

Industry players and associations rush to MHA and Meity seeking clarity; Google reviewing govt request

Speaking at Business Standard's BFSI Summit, Ramann added that the state-owned small industries lender said that it is once again looking at how to bring capital to micro finance institutions

The NBFCs share of the country's lending pie declined to five-year low of 19.8 per cent in the first half of FY23

New-age lenders reached out to new segments that were largely overlooked and unaddressed, even as more customers turned to them for their need for niche products and convenience

That international slowdown will limit the strength of the new Indian cycle, economists say.

While you should evaluate festive offers, criteria like ease of prepayment are also crucial

India wants the multilateral funding agency ADB to increase its equity base through another round of general capital increase with a view to strengthening its lending operations. Speaking at the 55th Annual Meeting of ADB, India's Economic Affairs Secretary Ajay Seth said rising commodity prices are endangering food security. "We are meeting in the backdrop of tightening of monetary policies, slowdown of the global economy, supply-chain disruptions, unprecedented inflation and rise in commodities prices endangering food security and livelihoods and the developmental gains made so far," Seth said, the Alternate Governor for the ADB's annual meeting. Fiscal space has now considerably reduced and the surge in public debt has limited the space for additional borrowing and worsened debt vulnerabilities, he said. Increase in private sector operations is the need of the hour to leverage the limited capital of ADB, Seth said developing more affordable and innovative financing solutions wil

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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday met International Finance Corporation (IFC) Managing Director Makhtar Diop and discussed increasing lending opportunities in India. IFC is the private sector funding arm of the World Bank. She reiterated India's expectation of a rise in IFC's lending to India to USD 2-2.5 billion in the next 1-2 years and USD 3-3.5 billion in next 3-4 years, the finance ministry said in a series of tweets. "Mr @Diop_IFC shared the sentiment of IFC's expansion into India & stated that IFC would adopt a proactive approach to enhance #investment in India and extend financing to MSMEs to enable capacity building to supplement India's effort to become a manufacturing hub," another tweet said. He further emphasised the potential of looking into sub-national financing for sustainable growth, and mobilise financing for women entrepreneurs.

Corporate bond issuance is looking impressive, but the market still has some distance to go before it can be considered deep

Lenders are waiting for clear demand patterns to emerge and policy stability, say analysts

Private lender's portfolio of rural loans was at Rs 58,800 cr at the end of the first quarter this financial year

Guidelines applicable to new and existing customers taking fresh loans

Is it a liquid fund? Is it a fixed deposit? Is it a collective investment scheme?

When the live-in arrangement between banks and NBFCs was flagged off on September 21, 2018, it was for co-origination

Industry associations are likely to approach the RBI to weed out any interpretational ambiguity