According to a study by CARE Research, some banks are restructuring the debt of their borrowers through bilateral negotiation without referring the cases to the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) cell. The study found that out of the Rs 177,333 crore outstanding restructured advances of 10 large banks, only Rs 58,366 crore worth of loans were referred to the CDR cell
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Banks offer Rs 228 bn funding commitment to steel project
A consortium of 21 banks has offered funding commitment of Rs 22,800 crore for Tata Steel Odisha's proposed greenfield 6 million tonne steel plant in Kalinganagar. According to Dealogic, global deal tracking firm, this is the largest project financing loan on record. The company plans to implement the project in two phases of 3 million tonne each. So far in 2013, the India project financing loan volume stood at $14.7 billion, 13 per cent higher than $12.
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Banks asked to provide credit to power starved firms
Commercial banks received a direction from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to provide credit to companies in Andhra Pradesh which are suffering from paucity of power. Earlier, the Visakhapatnam Chamber of Commerce and Industry discussed the problems being faced by the business in the state owing to non-availability and shortage of power with the Union Ministry of Commerce and I
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Ministry official suggests oversight mechanism for CDR
Commercial banks received a suggestion from Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Takru to have an independent oversight mechanism for considering cases under the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) cell. Takru suggested that the independent mechanism must not have any government representative or any serving banker, but some experts who can scrutinise from the correctness point of view whether the case refer
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Minister raises concern on rising bad loans
Finance Minister P Chidambaram raised concern about the rising non-performing assets (NPAs) in the banking system and asked banks to control it order to prevent adverse impact on profitability. Huge provisioning for NPAs is eating into the profits of state-owned banks, the minister said while addressing the annual general meeting of the Indian BanksĆā Association
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RBI may give more time to new licensees to set up banks
It is expected that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is to allow new banking licensees more time to set up banks. The earlier guidelines said aspirants would get a year after in-principle approval to do so, failing which the licences were to be withdrawn. The RBI would shortly announce a consolidated clarification on the new licence norms.
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Banks to fund road projects if NHAI readies 80 per cent land
If the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) made available at least 80 per cent of the land required for public-private partnership (PPP) road projects, banks can now start lending.
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Ministry wants banks to ease land norms for road projects
Banks have been asked by the union finance ministry to disburse loan to road projects developers who have acquired 80 per cent of the required land instead of the existing norm of 100 per cent.
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Banks to fund road projects if NHAI readies 80% land
If the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) made available at least 80 per cent of the land for public-private partnership (PPP) road projects, banks can now start lending. Till now, banks had been insisting that the developers take complete control of the land before getting funds.
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NHB chief rules out need for unified regulator
RV Verma, Chairman and Managing Director of National Housing Bank (NHB) ruled out the need for a unified regulator for banks and housing finance companies (HFCs). He said there is no need for a single regulator for banks and HFCs as there is not regulatory arbitrage as pointed out by SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri