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Banks sanction loans worth Rs 1.77 trn to 4.4 mn MSMEs under ECLGS scheme

The latest numbers on ECLGS, as released by the Finance Ministry, comprise disbursements by all 12 public sector banks (PSBs), 24 private sector banks and 31 non-banking financial companies (NBFCs)

Home, auto loan inquiry back to 2019 level, yet to reach pre-Covid mark

In home loans, inquiry volumes were at 112 per cent of July-August 2019 levels

HDFC Bank loan restructuring: Who is eligible, how to apply, what's the fee

Here are key details about HDFC's loan restructuring offer as published on its website

Troubled debt: Cracks emerge in India Inc's loan recast plans over ICAs

Private banks may prefer to make extra 20% provisioning and walk out

Lenders want govt to offer moratorium interest relief to borrowers

Waiver may cost banks Rs 10,000 cr, says IBA

Bank of Baroda ready for life beyond Covid, merger: MD & CEO Sanjiv Chadha

Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, Bank of Baroda (BoB) is confident of completing the amalgamation process by December 2020, ahead of the initial timeline of March 2021

NBFCs need access to credit history like banks, says Gunit Chadha

NBFCs don't have an equivalent body to represent their well-filtered voice with the regulators and government, says APAC Financial Services founder

Collections for pools of retail-loan receivables making a recovery

According to CRISIL Ratings, collections for pools of microfinance and commercial vehicle loan receivables (which had seen the sharpest drop after the lockdown), clawed back above 50 per cent in July

Guaranteed loans have multiplier effect

Government guarantee will help and restart businesses which will kickstart the virtuous circle of employment, consumption, and growth

SBI Card to enrol 'delinquent' customers in restructuring plans: MD

SBI Card is in the process of enrolling "delinquent" customers, who did not repay after the end of moratorium, in the RBI restructuring scheme or its own repayment plan to provide them more time for repayments, a top company official said. Due to the moratorium, a number of customers had not been paying for the first three months and the company treated them as standard accounts in line with the entire industry. However, since then, as the first moratorium ended, SBI Card made it a customer-led enrolment in the second moratorium in which a lot of customers did not enrol, SBI Card Managing Director & CEO Ashwini Kumar Tewari said. "Therefore, we had a large chunk of customers who came out of the moratorium. A lot of them paid up but many of them did not pay also. And these became what we call as more delinquent customers. "So with these delinquent customers, we are now working to enrol them either into the RBI restructuring scheme or our own repayment plans so that they get more ...

Govt sets up panel to study calls for giving interest relief on bank loans

Three-member committee led by Rajiv Mehrishi to measure impact on economy on the 'waiving of interest and waiving of interest'

Rs 10 trillion, or 8%, of loans will get recast under new framework: Icra

The RBI has operationalised guidelines based on K V Kamath-led panel's recommendations, which give relief to 26 listed sectors affected by the pandemic

RBI's loan restructuring scheme: Here's how it benefits you

The debt restructuring process involves a reduction of the interest rates on loans or an extension of its repayment tenure, or both

Kamath panel recommendations: 1,027 listed firms eligible for debt recast

These exclude banks, insurers, and NBFC

Loan recast: Things should be back on track in 2 years, says K V Kamath

In an interview to Abhijit Lele, Kamath said challenges faced by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) should be dealt separately by the regulator

Banks sanction loans of Rs 1.61 trn to MSMEs under credit guarantee scheme

The Finance Ministry on Monday said banks have sanctioned loans of about Rs 161,017 crore under the Rs 3-trn ECLGS for the MSME sector reeling under the slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic

Stamp duty going digital is like demat of shares: NeSL MD & CEO S Ramann

NeSL has set up a secured digital document execution (DDE) platform which will facilitate MSMEs and individuals to avail contactless loans on remote basis, says S Ramann

Life after moratorium, for banks and borrowers

There are enough filters in the Covid-19 loan restructuring scheme to prevent misuse, but is it a tool to delay the growth in banks' bad loans? We will know after two years

Banks may restructure loans worth more than Rs 10 trn to 5-6 key sectors

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman last week asked banks and NBFCs to roll out one-time loan restructuring scheme for Covid-19 related stress by September 15

Kamath panel to submit recommendations on debt restructuring today

The panel was formed to advise the RBI on the debt restructuring of corporate borrowers facing stress due to the pandemic.