The RBI has clarified that the penalty is not intended to pronounce upon the validity of any transactions or agreements that the bank has entered into with its customers.
RBI has made it more costly to lend & borrow unsecured loans. One reason is financial risk these loans can pose, while another is harassment of borrowers by recovery agents.
Indian banks, regulators, and investors weren’t worried when crises began exploding in US and European banks earlier this year. This resilience has been a long time coming.
In FAQ document, RBI says its new guidelines won't stop penal proceedings against wilful defaulters & that recoveries will continue even if loans are technically written off.
In anticipation that consumers will ease their purse strings during festive season, banks including SBI & HDFC have slashed home loan rates to the lowest level in a decade.
HDFC's retail loans grew around 9.3 per cent slower than its overall book's 14.4% in the June quarter, much lower than SBI (16.5%) & ICICI (20%) growth in that portfolio.
The proposed bad bank or NARCL will pay up to 15% of the agreed value for the loans in cash and the remaining 85% would be government-guaranteed security receipts.
The bad bank was registered as the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd with Padmakumar Madhavan Nair as the MD. Its paid-up capital is Rs 746 million.
Israel's response to Iran's retaliatory attack was relatively small and also downplayed by Tehran. But there are factors that could jeopardise this perceived reprieve.
The 125 APAs include 86 Unilateral APAs (UAPAs) and 39 Bilateral APAs (BAPAs). The total number of APAs since the start of the APA programme has risen to 641, with 506 UAPAs and 135 BAPAs.
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