The microfinance sector is facing a severe downturn, with every small finance bank and non-banking finance company involved in microlending seeing declines of 30-50%. Equitas Small Finance Bank estimates that around 50% of loans overdue by 90 days eventually become NPAs, though this figure varies across lenders. Equitas Small Finance Bank, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, CreditAccess Grameen Ltd, and Arman …
The story so far: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday announced that the National Asset Reconstruction Company along with the India Debt Resolution Company will take over the first set of bad loans from banks and try to resolve them. A bad bank is a financial entity set up to buy non-performing assets, or bad loans, from banks. The aim …
The National Pig Association said there were already 100,000 pigs awaiting slaughter at abattoirs due to a shortage of labour and now of carbon dioxide. David Limpars, the NPA's technical operations director, said the industry was facing "farmageddon" within 10 working days, with fresh meat, including sausages and pork chops, the first to disappear from supermarket shelves. A spokesman for …
Even as the Punjab government continues to fight the centre opposing reforms in the agriculture sector, the state government was rescued by the central govt just before the end of the financial year 2020-21 from a crisis situation in the sector. Had the central govt not intervened, the state govt in Punjab would not have been able to procure produces …
The story so far: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget speech on Monday revived the idea of a ‘bad bank’ by stating that the Centre proposes to set up an asset reconstruction company to acquire bad loans from banks. With banks expected to report even more bad loans this year, the idea of a ‘bad bank’ has gained particular …