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Friday, March 29, 2024
TopicShadow banks

Topic: Shadow banks

Indian mutual funds continue to shun crisis-hit NBFC sector

Mistrust toward NBFCs that started with IL&FS Group’s default last year has spiralled after DHFL & units of Reliance Capital missed repayments on dues.

Foreign investors can help India tide over credit crisis, says JPMorgan’s Kalpana Morparia

JPMorgan India CEO Kalpana Morparia says tweaking bankruptcy rules can help overseas investors relieve India's troubled shadow banking sector.

RBI gets more power to regulate India’s struggling shadow lenders

Nirmala Sitharaman said the RBI will replace the National Housing Bank and be the regulator of housing finance firms such as Dewan Housing Finance Corp. and Anil Ambani’s Reliance Capital.

RBI says big NBFCs need more scrutiny, any failure could cause huge losses

In its financial stability report RBI says, shadow lenders should work on “sustainable” balance sheet growth.

NBFCs have a new crisis coming with huge wall of maturing debt

NBFCs have a record Rs 1.1 trillion of local-currency bonds due next quarter, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Alternative investment funds – India’s new, $40 billion time-bomb for investors

Alternative investment funds have exploded in India as high upfront fees to distributors encourage them to lure investors to risky, unregulated products.

Fund manager who predicted India’s credit crisis still sees risks

A string of corporate defaults suggests worst of the liquidity shortage & soaring funding costs could come back, according to IDFC’s Suyash Choudhary.

Yes Bank plans to raise $1.2 billion to boost capital, CEO says

Yes Bank expects to recover loans made to Dewan Housing Finance, Anil Ambani’s companies & Essel Group by the end of September.

NBFC crisis threatens another bad loan crunch for Indian banks

Spreading debt woes have fueled talk that the NBFC crisis is entering a second, more dangerous, phase, posing broader risks to Indian financial system.

RBI stops short of specific steps to resolve crisis in NBFCs

RBI only said the central bank is closely monitoring NBFC sector & is ready to take ‘whatever steps are required’ to ensure financial stability.

On Camera

Oka to Nagarathna—Bombay High Court judges taking up the cudgel when faith in courts eroding

When lynching, hate speech and bulldozer politics do not speedily invite the wrath of courts, then something is wrong with the third pillar of governance.

Congress attacks chief economic advisor over statement on unemployment, asks BJP govt to ‘vacate seat’

While releasing 'India Employment Report 2024', V Anantha Nageswaran said govt can't solve 'all social, economic challenges'. Congress leader Kharge says CEA protecting 'dear leader'.

Amid plans to lift AFSPA, Army starts joint training with Jammu & Kashmir Police

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.