RBI ensures liquidity support to NBFCs
The HinduThe Reserve Bank of India has announced a host of measures to provide liquidity support to the non-banking finance companies, apart from giving them certain benefits for loans extended to the commercial real estate sector. To begin with, the banking regulator said banks to have to invest the funds availed under targeted long term repo operations, in investment grade bonds, commercial paper, and non-convertible debentures of NBFCs and stipulated that small and mid-sized NBFCs and micro finance institutes should receive at least 50% of these funds. “This will in turn ease the liquidity problem faced by NBFCs and MFIs to some extent, if their lender bank does not provide moratorium on payment of instalment and interest which they are extending to their customers,” said Deo Shankar Tripathi, MD & CEO of Aadhar Housing Finance. NBFCs and housing finance companies are facing liquidity pressure since banks have not extended any repayment moratorium to these entities even if, NBFCs have to provide the same for their borrowers.