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RBI's new framework to expedite resolution of stressed assets: Sashakt committee on bad loans

The Reserve Bank on Friday had replaced a tough norm on NPA categorisation by lenders, as it was quashed by the Supreme Court in April New Delhi: The mandatory norm of inter-creditor agreement allows banks to decide resolution strategy outside the IBC and it will help lenders to accelerate process to resolve stressed assets, Sashakt committee on bad loans said …

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Bad loans crisis: Nearly 24 lenders sign new NPA resolution framework under Project Sashakt

ICA to aid banks, financial institutions fighting bad loans that are sniffing at 12 percent of the system, to take concerted efforts towards resolving dud loans under Rs 500 crore. Nearly two dozen lenders, led mostly by state-run banks, on Monday, signed the inter-creditor agreement framework to speed up the resolution of stressed assets that are under the Rs 500 …

Project Sashakt: Five-point formula for resolution of bad loans at PSU banks

Finance minister Piyush Goyal unveiled ‘Project Sashakt’, a five-prong strategy to deal with non-performing assets. Goyal clarified that no proposal was put forth to create a bad bank to deal with the rising NPAs, adding that independent AMCs and steering committees would be set up for faster resolution of bad loans in the banking system. The committee of bankers, led …

Project Sashakt: Creating a bigger bad asset market is a good idea; but who will do the bankrolling?

Should one be excited about the Narendra Modi government’s new bad loan resolution plan, Sashakt? Dumping all bad loans into one entity with no clear resolution plan was like putting together several tiny explosive materials to build a big bomb. On the face of it, the thrust of ‘Project Sashakt’, based on the recommendations of the Sunil Mehta-led panel, unlike …