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Bank of India holds loan outreach programme, disburses Rs 12,500-cr credits

The credit outreach programme was launched on October 16 by all banks across the country on the advice of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman

90% south central Mumbai properties unsold despite low loan rates: Report

Despite home loan rates being at record lows and stamp duty cuts to encourage sales, 90 per cent of inventory in south central Mumbai, one of the biggest markets, remains unsold, a report said

Home loans grew 76% to Rs 79,043 crore in March quarter, shows data

Property loans also showed 21.9 per cent expansion at Rs 23,418 cr against Rs 19,207 cr in Q4FY20

Top lenders fuel higher consumer spending in India with easy credit

HDFC Bank's retail loans surged 12.9% in the three months ended September from a year earlier, the lender's first double-digit growth in such loans since the onslaught of the pandemic

Industry's share in bank loans at record low of 26%, shows data

Personal loans, including housing, now at 26.7% of bank credit, highest ever

Check net savings before you transfer home loan balance: Experts

When selecting the new lender, understand the conditions attached to prepayment

HDFC Bank says it will double retail loans, sees 'robust demand' in economy

Uncertainty is declining as businesses seek to bolster growth after Covid-19, says the bank's country head for retail assets.

Collection recovery in securitisation yet to reach March 2021 levels

The performance of 143 rated securitisation deals showed the recovery has improved sentiments and supported the loan performance in June-July 2021

Equity markets can't sustain growth, stronger debt markets needed: Sanyal

A senior policymaker on Wednesday said India needs strong support from debt capital like bank loans for long-term economic growth.

Loan mela mindset

Govt should not push PSBs to lend

Bank of Maharashtra waives loan processing fees under special offer

State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has announced a slew of offers, including concessional interest rates and a 100 per cent waiver on processing fees on retail loans. The bank under 'Retail Bonanza-Monsoon Dhamaka' waived the processing fee for its gold, housing and car loan and the offer is valid till September 30, 2021, BoM said in a statement on Friday. The bank offers housing and car loans with interest rates starting from 6.90 per cent and 7.30 per cent, respectively. The retail products are backed by several lucrative features like two free EMIs on regular repayment in the home loan; loan facility up to 90 per cent in the car and housing loans; and no pre-payment/pre-closure/part payment charges etc., it said. Commenting on the special offer, BoM executive director Hemant Tamta said, "We intend to gift our customers an attractive proposition for availing gold, housing and car loans, who will be benefited from lower rates and waiver of processing fee offer. The Pune-based

PNB Housing aims to bring corp loan book below Rs 10k cr by March 2022: MD

PNB Housing Finance is targeting to reduce its corporate loan book to below Rs 10,000 crore by the end of this fiscal as it seeks to focus more on retail lending activities, according to a top company official. The company's corporate lending stood at Rs 10,989 crore at the end of the first quarter of 2021-22, accounting for 15 per cent of its Asset Under Management (AUM) and the latter touched Rs 71,828 crore during the same period. However, PNB Housing Finance's loan assets declined to Rs 60,438 crore at the end of June this year compared to Rs 68,009 crore in the year-ago period. The business of the company, promoted by state-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB), has been hit by the second COVID wave. "This quarter (June 2021) itself, we have been able to reduce the book by about Rs 800 crore in terms of corporate (lending). And we would like to bring it down to below Rs 10,000 crore (by March 2022)," Hardayal Prasad, Managing Director & CEO of PNB Housing Finance, told PTI in an ..

Banks use ARCs for ever-greening: Parliamentary Committee on Finance

Calls for encouraging banks to bring down their leverage, says present "grim situation" should not be used as an alibi for bank privatisation

Retail loans, long a safe bet for many banks, show uptick in defaults

HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis say bulk of the loans marked substandard in April-June was in retail category, but expect turnaround as lockdowns end.

RBI eases norms for loans given by banks to directors of other banks

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on Friday said banks without their boards' approval can sanction personal loans up to Rs 5 crore to directors of other banks.

Banks explore option of invoking personal guarantee of promoters, says SC

Armed with Supreme Court order, banks may invoke personal guarantees of tycoons ranging from Venugopal Dhoot to Kapil Wadhawan to recover unpaid loans from their delinquent firms, sources said Monday. According to an estimate, top 10 personal guarantors have guaranteed debt of over Rs 1.6 lakh crore. Among the big names, former promoters of Bhushan Steel and Power Sanjay Singhal and his wife Aarti Singhal had furnished personal guarantees worth up to Rs 24,550 crore to take loans from a consortium of bank led by State Bank of India (SBI). The former promoter of Reliance Communications, Anil Ambani, has also given personal guarantee against the loan taken. Erstwhile promoter Wadhawan stands guarantee to loans taken by DHFL, which is sitting on debt of about Rs 90,000 crore, while Dhoot has also given personal guarantee to a portion of Rs 22,000 crore loan to Videocon. The Supreme Court in May had held that the November 15, 2019 government notification allowing creditors, usually ...

Restructured loans of non-bank financials to double by March: ICRA

The pandemic and the curbs imposed to contain its spread have affected the cash flow of borrowers and prolonged the recovery process, according rating agency ICRA

Status check: Banks are yet to build up a robust 'Covid loan book'

The RBI came up with the scheme on May 7, mainly for the health sector. It subsequently increased the amount to include contact intensive sectors to ease the hardship

Debt cut strategies useful for borrowers but they come at a cost

Loan restructuring and moratorium increase interest outgo

Cash-strapped Pak inks agreement with Saudi Arabia bank to borrow $4.5 bn

A debt-ridden Pakistan has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia-based Islamic Development Bank (IDB) to borrow $4.5 billion to alleviate oil and gas shortages