In our previous posts we talked about (1) Tax audit, (2) What is a forensic audit? (3) What is a Legal Audit? (4) Concurrent Audit System in bank. (5) What is a statutory audit? In this post let us study what is a stock audit? Inspection of assets charged to the lender at a regular…
A restructured or rescheduled account is practically a new loan replacing the older account. The purpose of restructuring of a loan is to accommodate the borrower who is in financial difficulty and unable to repay the loan as per repayment schedule. Restructuring of loans involve modification of terms and conditions of the loan usually with…
The potential loan losses arise to banks and financial institutions due to default of repayments from borrowers or renegotiated terms of a loan or one time settlement that incur lower than previously estimated repayments. The provision for loan loss is the money banks and financial institutions set aside to cover these potential losses on their…
Under section 6 Married Women’s Property (MWP) Act, all the properties belonging to the women, including insurance policy in the name of the husband purchased under MWPA, gets insulated from court attachments or any income tax attachments. For example, if husband were to default on his loan or personal guarantee provided by him, the properties…
(This post elucidates on recovery and monitoring process of NPA accounts,advantage and disadvantage of Compromise settlement, and gains of NPA recovery) The asset of the bank, classified as NPA ceases to generate income to the bank. In addition to stoppage of income generation to the banks, banks are required to make provision for NPA. Therefore,…
The Credit Guarantee fund Trust for Micro Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) has been providing guarantee coverage to any collateral / third party guarantee free credit facilities extended by eligible institutions (Member lending institutions (MLI) like banks, financial institutions, select NBFCs and Small Finance banks etc.). Hitherto, all activities* that come under manufacturing and service sector as…
The assets of the bank, classified under NPA cease to generate income to the bank. In addition to stoppage of income generation to the banks, banks are required to make provision for NPA. Therefore NPA is a double edged razor; damaging the profit, weakening the capital structure and reducing the rating of the bank. Measures…
In banking jargon the word ‘spread’ is used in issuance of corporate bonds,interest levied on loans and in foreign exchange transactions. In foreign exchange transactions the difference between the buying rate and selling rate is referred as spread or margin. The term ‘credit spread’ is used in the fixed income corporate bonds and bank loans.…
In simple words, Commercial Real Estate (CRE) can be described as any property which is used for non-residential purposes such as housing buildings, hotels, restaurants, gymnasiums, hospitals, condominiums, shopping malls, office blocks, theatres, amusement parks, cold storages, warehouses, educational institutions, industrial parks etc. In terms of Basel II definition if the repayment primarily depends on…
In securitization, credit enhancement refers to a risk-reduction technique that increases the credit profile of structured financial products or transactions. Credit enhancement may be divided into First Loss facility and Second Loss facility. First loss facility represents the first level of financial support to a special purpose vehicle (SPV) as part of the process in…