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Wednesday, July 30, 2025
TopicBad Loans

Topic: Bad Loans

Why there may be no winners in India’s painful bankruptcy process

While RBI is pushing bankers to come clean, whimsical application of the law by bankruptcy judges are leading to lengthy appeals and little recovery.

As banks become more selective, Indian firms may not find cheap loans abroad

Rising non-performing debt issues of Indian banks are affecting the availability and pricing of offshore loan transactions.

Outgoing Bank of Baroda chief tells Modi govt: Stay Out, you’re hurting us

According to Ravi Venkatesan, greater powers over management and decision making will enable banks to tap capital markets and strengthen their balance sheets.

Bank of America analyst predicts end to surge in Indian sovereign bond yields

The yields may reportedly drop by as much as 75 basis points by the end of March 2019, according to analyst Jayesh Mehta.

A fifth of public sector banks’ assets may go bad in a year

This cycle is unlikely to start reversing till the new bankruptcy law grows up a little.

In Narendra Modi govt’s final year, distressed assets and bad loans ail banking sector

A gradual systemic failure of banking and financial institutions can lead to catastrophic collapse of our economy. Arvind Subramanian’s resignation this week as the Chief...

Cash in villages signals end of struggle for this non-bank lender

Mahindra Financial, which has a presence in about 3.3 lakh villages, forecasts bad loans will continue to shrink as clients’ financial health strengthens.

RBI unearths $7 billion of bad loans at big Indian bank

Hidden bad debt is a blow to the sector given that half of India’s 22 government-controlled banks are already under the Reserve Bank of India’s strict Prompt Corrective Action program that restricts lending and expansion.

Record $1 billion loss signals `happy year’ for State Bank of India

SBI’s shares surged to a six-week high after it reported a record loss on Tuesday, after a similar contrarian market reaction by ICICI Bank Ltd. and Axis Bank Ltd. reported poorer-than-expected earnings.

Think twice before busting India’s ailing banks

RBI is cutting off banks and the police is intimidating bankers, there’s not much chance that credit growth will recover sufficiently to support India’s nascent growth revival.

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Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India’s air defence system foiled 1,000 Pakistani drone attacks on 9 May—Modi tells Parliament

New Delhi: India’s air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 1,000 drones and missiles launched by Pakistan on 9 May during Op Sindoor, Prime Minister...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.