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RBI as housing finance regulator

In the long run, the integration of regulations between banks and HFCs will prove beneficial for the industry and borrowers

Budget 2019: National Housing Bank will continue to inspect, penalise HFCs
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Harsh Roongta
Most of the discussion around the Union Budget has happened around the hike in surcharge for the ultra high networth individuals and foreign portfolio investors. I am writing about a much less noticed and talked about item – moving the regulatory baton for housing finance companies (HFCs) from National Housing bank (NHB) to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
 
NHB as a separate regulator for HFCs was never really a good idea. It doubled up as a financier to the HFCs as well as was their regulator – which is a clear conflict of interest. Secondly, NHB just did
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Topics : budget 2019