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Thursday, March 28, 2024
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

Profit margins in lottery industry are tiny. Here’s how Future Gaming paid for its electoral bonds

Neither state govts nor companies earn large profits from lotteries. However, a look at the system shows there’s ample evidence of murky dealings and financial irregularities. 

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts training Jammu & Kashmir cops 

In an interview with Gulistan News this week, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said the government would leave law and order to J&K Police and slowly withdraw troops.

For BJP, Kejriwal is an idea whose time has come to be destroyed

The ‘idea’ Kejriwal's politics grew around was a no-holds-barred fight against corruption. That is the reason Modi govt has now tarred him and his entire party with the same paint.