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RBI turns down Sebi plan for credit rating agencies' access to defaults

Market regulator has proposed letting rating agencies access the central bank's data base

Reserve Bank of India
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Reserve Bank of India

Shrimi Choudhary New Delhi
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has expressed disagreement over the Securities and Exchange Board of India’s (Sebi) proposed framework enabling credit rating agencies (CRAs) to legally access borrower database, helping them in timely recognition of default.

A panel of financial regulators, including the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority and the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India as well as the RBI and Sebi, met last month and discussed a proposal to give CRAs limited access to the RBI’s Central Repository of Information on Large Credits (CRILC).

The CRILC is a borrower-level data set focusing on systemically important