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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
TopicCredit market

Topic: credit market

Pandemic exposes hurdles of credit market as borrowers shun tighter regulations

Private bond placements have long accounted for the vast majority of debt sales in India’s credit market. A bigger public debt market should help reduce borrowing costs for issuers.

After Franklin’s funds freeze, a contagion risk is building in India’s credit market

Authorities will be forced to take steps to keep credit markets functioning & the mutual fund industry will be a key focus, market experts say.

Repay Rs 1.1 lakh crore in 3 months – the big funding challenge NBFCs face

Repaying the local debt market will be a big test for lower-rated NBFCs given they’ve been largely shut out of the domestic funding market.

A $677 billion manager spots buy opportunity amid sell-off in Indian equities

Aberdeen Standard Investments sees short-term volatility as a chance to build positions in quality Indian companies whose share prices have shrunk.

Real estate developers at risk as credit market dries up

India's year-old credit woes that began with IL&FS Group continue as mortgage lenders struggle to roll over debt amid downgrades in credit ratings.

India’s non-bank lenders could default within the next six weeks

Non-bank financiers and mortgage lenders have 2.7 trillion rupees of debt maturing in the next five months

On Camera

Bangladesh’s economic crisis is a cautionary tale. For India too

For India, this is not an opportunity for schadenfreude but rather a reflection of shared responsibility. It's what happens when the governance framework underpinning economic growth is weakened.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.