The state-dominated lending system's aggregate balance sheet had a gaping hole even before Covid-19. Now things could turn uglier
The lending in most of the segments, including housing, auto vehicle (personal and commercial) declined sharply
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The Reserve Bank of India's draft circular on dividend distribution by NBFCs is unlikely to impact most of the industry players, said ratings agency ICRA
RBI has come up with a draft circular for declaration of dividend by NBFCs, wherein it has proposed that NBFCs should have at least 15% CRAR for the last 3 years
The smaller and lower-rated NBFCs (AA-rated or the unrated) have been shunned by both banks and markets
Cost of doing business, regulatory arbitrage, customer profile key parameters
This figure stood at 9.5 per cent in September 2019, according to report by CARE Ratings
Also proposes to eliminate regulatory arbitrage enjoyed by certain NBFCs that are slowly building up systemic risk
Earlier, banks were only allowed to co-originate loans with non-deposit taking systemically important finance companies
CEA Subramanian also suggested a way to solve the problem -- adopt technology and use available data to screen sketchy borrowers
While sectors including agriculture, MSME and retail are covered, NBFCs have not been included as a beneficiary of the facility
NBFCs don't have an equivalent body to represent their well-filtered voice with the regulators and government, says APAC Financial Services founder
The pure play mortgage player is the first non-banking financial company/housing finance company to face a corporate insolvency resolution process
"A full-fledged turnaround should be in place by the end of the last quarter or spilling over to the next FY," said Sachin Pillai, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer, HLFL
In August, the non-banking sector raised Rs 98,742 crore through the commercial paper route, which is the same amount they had raised between April to July
In an interview to Abhijit Lele, Kamath said challenges faced by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) should be dealt separately by the regulator
Management commentary regarding asset quality and restructuring for the September quarter earnings would be a key monitorable
The FIDC has also asked the ministry to allow debt restructuring of all standard MSME accounts in the 0-90 day bucket