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Avoiding fraudulent loan apps: RBI listing, ratings & reviews key to safety

Loans from registered NBFCs or banks come with a key fact statement (KFS), a sanction letter, and a loan agreement detailing all costs

Retail loan origination slows down in FY25 amid multiple headwinds

Home loan originations slowed down to 2.7 per cent in FY25, compared to 9.9 per cent in the previous year due to higher property prices and macroeconomic challenges

Bajaj Finance shares gain 3% on strong Q1 growth in new loans and AUM

Bajaj Finance shares rose over 3 per cent after the NBFC reported growth in new loans and assets under management

RBI's prepayment penalty ban poses bigger hit for NBFCs, say experts

NBFCs have around 5-25 per cent of their AUM under floating rate micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) loans which will be impacted as majority of them charge 2-5 per cent prepayment penalties

HDB Financial shares list at 13% premium on BSE, beats GMP estimates

Ahead of their debut, the unlisted shares of the company were seen trading at ₹814 per share, up ₹74 or 10 per cent from the upper end price

Healthy balance sheets augur well for economy: RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra

In the Financial Stability Report, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra says domestic resilience is strong but global tariffs, geopolitics and climate risks could impact growth

Indian financial system resilient amid global uncertainty: RBI report

RBI Governor says financial stability is essential for growth, urges vigilance as global structural shifts make policymaking harder amid trade fragmentation, climate risks, and geopolitical tensions

Bank credit growth slows to 4.9% during fortnight ended May 30: RBI

Bank credit to industry expanded at 4.9 per cent in the fortnight ended May 30, against 8.9 per cent growth in the corresponding period of the previous year, the Reserve Bank said on Monday. The RBI has released the data on sectoral deployment of bank credit for May 2025 collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks (SCBs), accounting for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit by all commercial banks. On a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit as on the fortnight ended May 30, 2025, grew by 9.8 per cent as compared to 16.2 per cent during the corresponding fortnight of the previous year (May 31, 2024). "Credit to industry recorded a y-o-y growth of 4.9 per cent, compared with 8.9 per cent in the corresponding fortnight of the previous year. Among major industries, outstanding credit to all engineering', construction' and rubber, plastic and their products' recorded an accelerated y-o-y growth," it said. According to the data, credit to agriculture and allie

FM Nirmala Sitharaman nudges public sector banks to push credit growth

After slipping to 12% in FY25, loans growth has fallen below 10%

MSME Credit top ₹40 trn; growth in active loans slowdown in FY25: CRIF

Credit to MSMEs grew 20% in FY25 to ₹40 trillion, driven by PSL norms, digitisation, and government support, even as active loan growth and term loan share moderated

Shipping ministry launches India's first maritime NBFC Sagarmala Finance

Sagarmala Finance Corporation to offer tailored funding to ports, MSMEs, and startups; standardised port tariffs and port readiness index also announced

Motilal Oswal sector of the week: NBFCs; REC, PFC among top bets

The RBI's new norms enhance transparency and strengthen the risk-reward framework for NBFCs in project lending

HDB Financial IPO pricing reflects investor feedback, say bankers

The IPO, which opens on June 25 and closes on June 27, has kept a price band of ₹700-740 per share

HDB Financial Services sets IPO price band at ₹700-740; check key details

HDB Financial Services IPO comprises a fresh issue of 33.8 million equity shares and an offer for sale of 135.1 million equity shares

Microfinance loan disbursal falls 25% to ₹1.12 trillion in FY25

Loan disbursed by microfinance institutions (MFIs) have declined by 25 per cent to Rs 1.12 lakh crore in FY25 reflecting stress in the sector. Loan amount of Rs 1,12,459 crore was disbursed in 2024-25 through 2.2 crore accounts, including disbursement of owned as well as managed portfolio, Microfinance Institution Network (MFIN), an umbrella body of the microfinance institutions (MFIs), said in its report released on Wednesday. MFIs loan disbursement in FY25 was 25.4 per cent lower than the amount disbursed in 2023-24, it said. However, the average loan amount disbursed per account during FY25 was Rs 50,131 which increased by 12.3 per cent in comparison to the last financial year. During the year, the report said, NBFC-MFIs received a total of Rs 57,307 crore in debt funding, a 35.7 per cent decrease from previous year. Banks contributed 78.4 per cent of the total borrowing received followed by non-bank entities 11.9 per cent, ECB 5.1 per cent, All India Financial Institution 3.1

L&T Finance share price soars 45% so far in 2025; what's behind the rally?

LTF stock price hit an over seven-year high of ₹197.10, and was trading higher for the fifth straight day, surging 14% during this period.

RBI's revised QA norms to boost compliance, broaden microfinance reach

Industry body says lowering QA threshold for NBFC-MFIs to 60% will improve compliance, enable diversification, and support long-term sector sustainability

Monetary policy: Innovative, out of box, and 'Lucas unanticipated surprise'

After pandemic, this is the first time RBI has reduced policy repo rate by 50 bps to 5.5%

Bajaj Finserv trades flat after 1.79% equity change hands via block deals

As many as 28.6 million shares representing 1.79 per cent equity of Bajaj Finserv worth ₹5,506 crore changed hands in block deals on the NSE on Friday, the exchange data shows.

Walmart's Flipkart secures RBI approval for direct lending in India

The central bank issued its certificate of registration - a document that officially recognises a company as an NBFC - to Flipkart Finance Private Limited on March 13