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Decade in review: How state-owned banks rose to the occasion amid crisis

At the start of the decade, the government was busy infusing stimulus packages to revive various sectors affected by the global credit crisis

NBFC slowdown due to low demand and lack of market funding, says RBI

The cash crunch among robust NBFCs is mainly due to a financial support from market instruments, rather than from the lenders.

India Inc garners Rs 8.7 trn from markets in 2019, debt preferred route

This was way below than Rs 30,959 crore raked in through main-board IPOs and Rs 2,287 crore via SME segment in 2018

Impact of NBFC failures on banking system has reduced in past 6 months: RBI

Following NBFCs, HFCs were the second-largest borrowers of funds from the financial system with gross payables of around Rs 5.9 trillion and gross receivables of only Rs 33,110 crore as of end-Sept

Impact of NBFC failures on banking system has reduced in past 6 months: RBI

Following NBFCs, HFCs were the second-largest borrowers of funds from the financial system with gross payables of around Rs 5.9 trillion and gross receivables of only Rs 33,110 crore as of end-Sept

NBFCs' gross NPA ratio rises from 6.1% to 6.3% in Sept: RBI report

Non-bank lenders witnessed stress in their asset quality in the first half of the current fiscal, with gross NPA ratio increasing to 6.3 per cent in September 2019 from 6.1 per cent in March, according to an RBI report. However, the net NPA ratio of non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) remained steady at 3.4 per cent between end-March 2019 and end-September 2019, RBI's Financial Stability Report showed. As at end-September 2019, the capital to risk assets ratio (CRAR) of the NBFC sector stood at 19.5 per cent, lower than 20 per cent as at end-March 2019. The report said while the importance of NBFCs in credit intermediation is growing, the IL&FS episode brought the focus on the asset liability mismatches of non-bank lenders, which poses risks to the sector as well as the financial system as a whole. To address this, the RBI introduced the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) requirement for all deposit-taking and non-deposit taking NBFCs with an asset size of Rs 5,000 crore and ...

Improve corporate governance to lift economic efficiency: RBI to India Inc

Comments come at a time when many promoters of companies are under regulatory scanner

Bank-backed broking houses expect client influx after Karvy fiasco

Trust deficit after Karvy fiasco and access to margin facility to drive shift of investors

Slowdown blues: Bank credit growth may fall to 6.5-7% in FY20, says Icra

According to ICRA, even in a high-growth scenario, wherein the second half of FY20 sees the incremental bank credit rise to Rs 6.5-7 trillion, there will still be a 40-45% year-on-year (YoY) decline

Five-fold increase in dollar bonds in 2019, firms raise $23.6 billion

Experts say even as foreign investors discriminate between higher and lower-rated issuers, the high-yields market has started to take shape overseas

Indian firms raise $23 bn via dollar bonds; issuance sees five-fold jump

Softening of US treasury yields, weak domestic liquidity attract firms to yield-chasing offshore market

Credit Suisse Wealth Management sees mid-teen growth in Nifty earnings

Within the markets segments, they do not forecast a major underperformance by the mid-caps in 2020 given the valuation comfort

Does IBC work for financial firms?

The economy might be better off with a dedicated legal regime for the resolution of financial service providers and financial market infrastructure

Is IBC in ICU?

Senior judges need briefings on economy-wide consequences of their decisions

Shadow banking crisis: NBFCs' asset quality under stress as profit slips

In the first half of FY20, asset quality of the sector showed further deterioration with slight increase in GNPAs.

Credit growth, NPA reduction to depend on pace of economic revival: RBI

Credit to the commercial sector shrank by Rs 52,971 crore during April-September this calendar, or in the first half of 2019-20, from an expansion of Rs 3.66 trillion in the same period a year ago

When Rahul Bajaj, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw broke deafening silence of India Inc

In visible signs of economic woes, the auto sector went through one of the longest sales slumps leading to nearly 3.5 lakh job losses.

NBFCs need to be incentivised to become banks, says Hiranandani Group MD

'The government's decision to reduce corporation tax rate to 17% for new companies is faulty', said Hiranandani

Money is needed in the hands of people to sustain demand: Harsh Singhania

India Inc is passing on the benefits of tax cuts to consumers

Foreign funds push investment in real estate up 9% to Rs 43,780 cr: Report

Office properties attracted 46 per cent of the total inflow and received nearly Rs 20,000 crore this year