The ‘Securitisation’ is a two-stage process in which pool of assets are structured or packaged and sold by an originator(Banks and financial institutions) to a bankruptcy remote* special purpose vehicle (SPV). In the first stage there is sale of single asset or pooling and sale of pool of assets to a SPV in return for…
Currently the banks are mandated to extend collateral-free agriculture loans up to Rs.1 lakh. This limit of Rs.1 lakh was fixed in the year 2010.In view of overall inflation and rise in agriculture input cost since 2010, Reserve Bank of India vide its circular RBI/2018-19/118 FIDD.CO.FSD.BC.No.13/05.05.010/2018-19 dated February 7, 2019 advised all the scheduled commercial…
Deferred Payment Guarantee is a guarantee for a payment usually on installments which has been deferred or postponed. Banks issue DPG in the cases of purchase of capital goods/machinery where the seller offers credit to the buyer and buyer’s bank guarantees the due payments to the seller. Here the seller draws drafts of different maturities…
“Prudential norms” are the guidelines and general norms issued by the banking regulator (the central bank) of the country for the proper and accountable functioning of banks and financial institutions. The provisioning requirements for all types of standard assets, sub-standard assets, Doubtful assets and Loss assets stands as below. Standard assets: Banks should make general…
Pursuant to the announcement in the interim budget 2019, the Reserve Bank of India carried out circular asking banks to extend the facilities of Kisan Credit Card (KCC) to Animal Husbandry farmers and Fisheries to help them meet their working capital requirements. According to RBI circular FIDD.CO.FSD.BC.12/05.05.010/2018-19 dated Feb 4, 2019, the new KCC facility…
The syndication of loans is an internationally practiced model for financing credit requirements of a borrower in lieu of consortium advance. Apparently, the syndication of credit line is similar to consortium finance but slightly different in certain aspects. First of all, there is no restriction with regard to quantum of credit involved for credit syndication.…
In consortium lending system, two or more lenders join together to finance a single borrower. The lending banks formally join together, by way of an inter-se agreement to meet the credit needs of a borrower. Here, the sanction of limits to a borrower is completed with common appraisal, common documentation and monitoring the advance with…
The multiple banking arrangements are similar to a consortium advance and loan syndication, wherein several lenders finance a single borrower. However, there are many structural and operational differences among them. In multiple banking arrangements, a borrower borrows simultaneously from more than one bank independent of each other. Each lending bank takes separate loan documents and…
Updated on September 4, 2020: RBI revised priority credit lending guidelines. In the new guidelines, Bank finance to start-ups (up to ₹50 crores); loans to farmers for installation of solar power plants for solarisation of grid-connected agriculture pumps, and loans for setting up Compressed Bio-Gas (CBG) plants have been included as fresh categories eligible for…
The draft on guidelines on Loan System for Delivery of Bank Credit released by RBI on December 6, 2018 states that the new guidelines on ‘Loan System for Delivery of Bank Credit’ for borrowers having aggregate fund-based working capital limit of ₹1500 million and above from the banking system will be effective from April 1,…