Banks are prohibited from levying foreclosure charges/ pre-payment penalties

Reserve Bank of India on Friday (August 02, 2019) reminded all the commercial banks that they are not permitted to charge foreclosure charges / pre-payment penalties on home loans / all floating rate term loans sanctioned to individual borrowers. The above norm of prohibiting banks charging foreclosure charges/pre-payment penalties on floating rate loan is already…

RBI relaxes end use restrictions on ECB

As per existing External Commercial Borrowings policy norms, ECB proceeds could not be utilized by the borrowers for the following purposes. (i) Working capital purposes, (ii) General corporate purposes, (iii)Repayment of Rupee loans except when the ECB is availed from foreign equity holder for a minimum average maturity period of 5 years.(iv) On-lending for above…

Asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) explained

Both Asset-backed securities (ABS) and mortgage-backed securities (MBS) are fixed income financial securities collateralized (backed) by a pool of assets such as Auto loans, Education Loans, Housing Loan, credit card debts, and receivables etc. This pool of assets is characteristically a group of small and illiquid assets which are unable to be sold individually. Basically,…

What is stock audit?

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…

What is restructuring of loan?

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…