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State Bank of India (SBI) -- the country's biggest lender -- has set a goal of increasing green advances to 7.5-10 per cent by 2030, with 25 per cent of these advances to be funded through green lines of credit. Green advances portfolio was 1.56 per cent of the bank's total advances as on March 31, 2025. Further strengthening this strategy, SBI has launched CHAKRA, a Centre of Excellence to finance sunrise sectors such as renewable energy, electric mobility and green hydrogen, accelerating India's green transition, the bank said in a statement on Sunday. Meanwhile, the bank hosted its sixth edition of the SBI Green Marathon, reaffirming its unwavering commitment to environmental stewardship and responsible banking. The marathon drew over 10,000 spirited Mumbaikars across 5 km, 10 km, and 21 km categories. Held under the theme 'Run For A Greener India', the event transformed the city's vibrant energy into a powerful call for climate responsibility and sustainable living, it ...
Non-bank lender UGRO Capital's borrowing costs are higher than peers by 1.25 per cent, and the company will focus on reducing them in FY27, a top official has said. "Our focus is now to reduce our cost of borrowing. Our cost of borrowing is at least 1.25 per cent higher than that of our peers. So, the focus is to reduce that because if we don't reduce that, both the end customer, we cannot service well," the founder and managing director of small-business-focused lender, Sachindra Nath, told PTI. The company, which has grown its assets under management from around Rs 3,000 crore in 2020 to nearly Rs 15,000 crore in 2025, said the sharp expansion in recent years had necessitated higher liability mobilisation, impacting borrowing costs. "With the base now becoming large and growth expected to moderate, the demand for liabilities will also reduce. This will give us the flexibility to negotiate better rates," he said. He indicated that while its liability mix will broadly remain ...
Non-bank lenders' home loan growth will slow down in FY26 owing to aggressive play by state-run banks in the market, a report said on Wednesday. Non-bank lenders' assets under management are likely to grow by 12-13 per cent, down from 14 per cent in the preceding fiscal, despite a slew of tailwinds, the report by Crisil said. The challenges faced by non-bank lenders include "intense competition" from banks, which continue to dominate the prime home loan segment, it added. "Public sector banks have upped the ante and surpassed prime-focused housing finance companies (HFCs) last fiscal and in the first half of this fiscal," the agency's director Subha Sri Narayanan said. Narayanan said competition in pricing is evident from the strong growth in lower-interest-rate home loans of banks, as the share of the sub-9 per cent interest rate portfolio increased to over 60 per cent as of March 31, 2025, from 45 per cent last year. "Many large HFCs are facing increased customer churn through .
In what can lead to concerns from a financial inclusion agenda perspective, cautious stance by lenders led to the share of new to credit (NTC) borrowers slowing down in the June quarter, a report said on Wednesday. Only 16 per cent of loan originations in the April-June period were classified as NTC, as against 18 per cent in the year-ago period and 20 per cent in 2023, according to the report by Transunion Cibil. "An increase in NTC percentage indicates higher financial inclusion," the leading credit information bureau said in the quarterly report. The decrease has been the result of lenders getting "cautious", the Cibil report added. In what may lead to more concerns, the report said the growth in credit active consumers dropped to 9 per cent for Q1FY26 as against 15 per cent in the year-ago period. There is a "marginal stress" in repayments, the report observed, pointing to higher downgrades in the prime segment as compared to the year-ago period. Sharing data on score migrati