The debt-to-equity ratio of Reliance Capital would decline to 0.5 from 1.7 if the company manages to get banking license from Reserve Bank of India (RBI). It may be recalled that the central bank invited application for new bank licenses from corporates, non banking finance companies and other entities earlier. Follo
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Continuous licensing may boost competition in banking sector
In order to ensure competitiveness in the banking sector, there is a need to adopt a 'continuous authorisation' policy, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a research paper. The paper calls for reviewing the current 'Stop and Go' licensing policy and adopt a 'continuous authorisation' policy as continuous authorisation keeps the competitive pres
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SAIL chief moots special funding institution for steel sector
There is an urgent need to set up dedicated financing institutions for the steel sector in order to attain the target of 300 mn t steel annually by 2020-25, CS Verma, Chairman and Managing Director of SAIL said. It may be recalled that India set a target to achieve annual steel production of 300 million tonne (mn t) by 2020
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FSLRC submits draft Financial Code Bill
Finance Sector Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) recently submitted a draft Indian Financial Code Bill which contains 450 clauses and six schedules. The code was submitted to give effect to its recommendations on the financial architecture of the country. Among various recommendations of the panel, the prominent one is the setting up of a Unified Financial Agency (UFA) by merging several regulators such as Sebi,
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Institutions struggle to raise funds via tax-free bonds
Reports indicate that institutions that are allowed to raise tax-free bonds in 2012-13 could mop up only Rs 25,000 crore as against the permission to raise Rs 60,000 crore. It is learnt that investors are not showing much interest in the tax-free bonds as interest rates are expected to fall further in the coming months. Yield on tax-free bonds are set below the yield of the 10-year ben