The ordinance passed by Government of India on Wednesday (June 06, 2018) to Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) treats home buyers in ailing real estate companies on par with banks in the resolution process. The new IBC ordinance tags the buyers of home buyers with financial creditors which empowers even a single home buyer to…
RBI extends relief to all MSMEs that was till now only available to GST registered MSMEs having credit facilities up to Rs.25 Crores to repay loan up to 180 days (as against 90 days) without being classified as NPAs. In order to enable other MSMEs for their transition to formalised sector (MSMEs) and also keeping…
Beside the policy decision to hike the Repo rate by 25 bps, RBI on Wednesday (06.06.2018) revised the housing loan limits for priority sector lending from existing limit of Rs.28 lakhs to Rs.35 lakhs in Metropolitan Centers provided the overall cost of dwelling unit does not Rs.45 lakhs. The limit for other centers for classification…
Update :In terms of Reserve Bank’s extant guidelines on lending to priority sector, a target of 40 percent of Adjusted Net Bank Credit (ANBC) or Credit Equivalent amount of Off-Balance Sheet Exposures (OBE), whichever is higher, as on March 31 of the previous year, has been mandated for lending to the priority sector by domestic…
Convertible Bonds: Convertible bonds are exceptional securities that have features of both bonds and equity options. The holders of convertible bonds have the opportunity to convert bonds held by them into specified number of company’s equity shares during validity period for options mentioned in the bonds. The bond holder also receives the coupon payment till…
A Zero-Coupon Bond does not make periodic interest payments or “coupons” to the investors. Since the coupon rate of such bonds are ‘zero’ they are called as zero-coupon bond. In case of Zero-Coupon Bonds the issuer sells the bonds at a price less than the face value of the bonds and pays to the bond…
(This post elucidates on what is annuity, what is ordinary annuity, how to calculate present and future value of annuity along with formulas for calculation of annuity values) An annuity can be defined as a sequence of equal payments made at equal intervals of time. Equated Monthly Installments (EMIs) of loan repayments, monthly remittance of…
In banking lexicon, provisioning means to set aside or provide some funds to cover up losses if things go wrong and some of their loans turn into bad assets. Provisioning Coverage Ratio (PCR) refers to the prescribed percentage of funds to be set aside by the banks for covering the prospective losses due to bad…
12 slabs increase in DA for Aug 2018 – Oct 2018 CPI for June 2019 is 291 (6596.68) as per the announcement of Labour Bureau today (31.07.2018). With the above, the average CPI for April, May & June 2018 is 6588. AVG CPI: (6573.85+6596.68+ 6642.33/3=. 19812.86/3=6604.28-4440=2164.28/4=541 slabs @ 0.10%=54.10% So Confirmed Increase in DA Slabs…
12 slabs increase in DA for bank officers, CPI for June 2019 is 291 (6596.68) as per the announcement of Labour Bureau today (31.07.2018). With the above, the average CPI for April, May & June 2018 is 6588. AVG CPI: (6573.85+6596.68+ 6642.33/3=. 19812.86/3=6604.28-4440=2164.28/4=541 slabs @ 0.10%=54.10 So Confirmed Increase in DA Slabs for Aug 2018…