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Worries over liquidity to boost credit card, personal loans: CIBIL

Unlike the slowdown a decade ago, demand for credit cards and personal loans will remain as consumers look to secure funds to bridge gaps in personal finance.

Fed to stay full throttle with credit support despite debt rally

Central bankers are likely to remain undeterred in both their credit and monetary policy support until the jobless rate gets closer to their full employment estimate of 4.1per cent

Microcredit crucial for low income households dealing with Covid-19 blow

Over 90 per cent of low-income households are employed in the informal sector, and they will be the hardest hit by the pandemic

Green shoots: City gas infrastructure will drive capex, credit demand

The last of a three-part series on credit pick-up looks at how the push for city gas is creating demand for development of overall gas infrastructure

Must revisit policies for credit access to MSMEs, says Rajiv Kumar

Services such as access to credit, technology, market and information are readily available to the formal sector but not to the informal sector said NITI Aayog's Rajiv Kumar

Another nail in the coffin: Commercial credit down 2.6 percentage points

The contraction has been across all the four segments of the commercial credit segment, including micro, small, medium, mid and large enterprises

Credit demand may be muted this festive season

Even though lenders have been witnessing credit demand from the retail segment, it is the corporate lending that has remained subdued