Stressed Loans

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Former RBI Deputy Governor R Gandhi appointed as Yes Bank's non-executive chairman

In September last year, the government had announced a guarantee worth Rs 30,600 crore to security receipts issued by NARCL. The guarantee will be valid for five years

This is being termed the single-largest bad loan deal

By current assessment, lenders have a total of 38 accounts involving aggregate loans of Rs 83,845 cr, which have been identified for transfer, says Dinesh Kumar Khara

The International Financial Services Centres Authority on Friday sets up a committee for creating a framework for transfer of stressed loans from domestic lenders to financial institutions in IFSC.

An increase of up to 80 basis points is expected in the case of housing finance companies, taking the NPA level to 3.8%

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Overall numbers bettered expectations, rising pool of stressed loans may be the tricky aspect

Say loans may not immediately turn into bad debt, but a big chunk of it eventually could

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Resolution plans were to be implemented within 180 days from the end of the one-month review period

Gill exuded confidence that the bank does not see any jump in this book in the future, but conceded that it was keeping a similar outlook earlier as well.

The new framework makes inter-creditor agreements mandatory and provides for a majority decision to prevail, he said

Lenders will have to submit weekly report of instances of default by all borrowers with aggregate exposure of Rs 5 crore and above

In the February 12 circular, issued to all banks and financial institutions, RBI withdrew all earlier debt restructuring schemes

Private sector lenders' stressed loan pile was about Rs 1.1 trillion, or 4.6% their total loans

Power producers have asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to revise its February 12 guidelines on doing away with some earlier debt reorganising instruments, such as Statutory Debt Restructuring (SDR) or the Scheme for Sustainable Structuring of Stressed Assets (S4A). They have asked that where these had already been invoked, the provisions be allowed to be carried over, at least for 12-18 months. The revised framework, they also feel, should provide for implementation of a resolution plan (RP) if approved by 75 per cent of lenders by value, in line with the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code. And, that the schedule for an RP needs to take into account the receipt of regulatory or government approvals -- in many cases, projects are held back for this reason.In a letter to RBI, the Association of Power Producers say the new guidelines majorly dis-incentivise any loan restructuring in the segment. These, instead, push for sale and change of control for an entity in some difficulty on loan .

As of end-September, the banks' total stressed loans were Rs 8.97 lakh crore