RBI relaxes bad loans provisioning rules for banks, permits 100% utilization of floating provisions
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das on Wednesday announced that banks are allowed to utilise100 per cent of floating provisions/counter-cyclical provisioning buffer for making specific provisions for non-performing assets. RBI in its circular dated May 5, 2021 stated that “In order to mitigate the adverse impact of COVID 19 related stress on…
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RBI announces Resolution Framework 2.0 for COVID Related Stressed Assets
RBI on Wednesday (5th May) announced Resolution Framework 2.0 targeting individual, small businesses and MSME borrowers. In terms of RBI’s Febraury 5th circular, Scheduled Commercial Banks were allowed to deduct the amount equivalent to credit disbursed to new MSME borrowers from their Net Demand and Time Liabilities (NDTL) for calculation of the Cash Reserve Ratio…
Read article We are open to a bad bank plan: RBI Governor
On the subject of a bad bank, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Saturday said RBI can consider the idea of a bad bank if there is any such proposal. He said the idea has been under discussion for a very long time. “We in the RBI have provided regulatory guidelines for asset reconstruction companies and…
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Blanket suspension of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) for a period of six months may extend
The government of India promulgated an ordinance to suspended initiation of fresh insolvency proceedings for a period of six months to shield companies impacted by the outbreak of Covid-19. Ministry of Finance has announced that the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (“IBC”) proceedings under Section 7, 9 and 10 would be suspended for a period of…
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Bad Loans (NPA) in Banks: Why do we have this state of affairs?
The BSR-1 released by RBI at every quarter shows that small borrowal accounts the credit limit up to ₹ 0.2 million constitute only a share of 7.3 percent in total outstanding credit of the banks. From the above stats, we may infer that it is the large borrowers who have been heavily damaging banking industries…
Asset Classification and Provisioning under COVID19 Regulatory Package
On Friday (April 17), the Reserve Bank of India announced freezing of classification of non-performing assets for three months starting March 1, in view of the widespread impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the subsequent nationwide lockdown. “In respect of all accounts for which lending institutions decide to grant moratorium and which were standard as…
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