🍒 Higher NPAs hinder monetary policy transmission: RBI paper : High incidence of non-performing assets (NPAs) in banks acts as a major roadblock in transmission of monetary policy actions of the Reserve Bank, a working paper prepared by the officials of the central bank said. The working paper also made a strong case for capital injection in state-owned banks, arguing that such a move would increase the credit flow to the real sector in addition to ensuing smoother transmission of monetary policy. "Presence of non-performing assets in a bank also weakens monetary policy transmission and lowers the loan growth rate," said the working paper co-authored by Silu Muduli and Harendra Behera, Department of Economic and Policy Research (DEPR), RBI. The RBI said the views expressed in the paper are those of authors and not of the Reserve Bank of India. - economic times
🍒 Retail cheque payments down to a trickle in FY20 to 2.96 per cent: RBI data : The aggressive push to a digital payments and settlement system has paid rich dividend to the Reserve Bank as the share of paper clearing in retail payments has come to trickle in FY2020, show the latest RBI data. In FY2020, the share of paper clearing in total retail payments plunged to just 2.96 per cent in terms of volume and to 20.08 per cent in terms of value, the data showed. In FY2016, when the central bank began to push digital payments aggressively on the back of the contentious note-ban, paper/cheque clearings accounted for a high of 15.81 per cent in volume and nearly half in terms of value at 46.08 per cent of the total retail payments. That the efforts towards digitization have been very successful is clear from the steady fall in the share of paper clearing. From 15.81 per cent in volume and 46.08 per cent in terms of value in FY2016, the same shrunk to 11.18 per cent and 36.79 per cent, respectively, in FY2017. - Business Line
🍒 Women beneficiaries comprise maximum number of a/c holders under PMJDY at 55% : More than half of bank accounts under the Pradhan Mantri Jan-Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) are held by women beneficiaries, according to an RTI reply. However, there is no gender-wise data when it comes to amount held by women and men account holders. The number of accounts till September 9, 2020, under PMJDY was 40.63 crore, of which 22.44 crore accounts were held by women and 18.19 crore by men, said the RTI reply to Madhya Pradesh-based activist Chandra Shekhar Gaur. The deposits in these PMJDY accounts witnessed an 8.5 per cent rise till early September of the current fiscal year to nearly Rs 1.30 lakh crore, according to the information provided by the finance ministry. The total balance under the PMJDY accounts on April 1, 2020, was Rs 119,680.86 crore, which grew by 8.5 per cent to Rs 129,811.06 crore by September 9, 2020, the government said in the Right to Information (RTI) query. - economic times
🍒 Shriram Housing Finance looking at 50-60% increase in loan disbursement in FY21 : Mortgage lender Shriram Housing Finance is looking at around 50-60 per cent increase in loan disbursement to Rs 1,800 crore in the current financial year, a top company official said. The company, promoted by Shriram City Union Finance, had disbursed Rs 1,127 crore in the fiscal ended March 31, 2020. In the first quarter, we didn’t do much business. Despite that, in FY21, we will do about 50-60 per cent more business than what we did in FY20. We will end this year with a disbursement of Rs 1,800 crore, the company’s managing director and CEO Ravi Subramanian told PTI. In the first quarter of the current fiscal, the housing financier disbursed Rs 77.4 crore, a decline of 68.1 per cent year-on-year, owing to the nationwide lockdown imposed to contain the spread of the coronavirus. In the second quarter of FY21, it disbursed around Rs 520 crore, which was 20-25 per cent more than what it disburses in every quarter, he said. The biggest tumbling block was COVID-19 in Q1, but we have come back on trajectory. Growth in Q3 is more than Q2, and growth in Q4 will be more than Q3, he said. - financial express
🍒 DHFL lenders staring at ₹65,000-crore haircut : Lenders to Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd (DHFL) may have to take a ₹50,000-65,000 crore haircut, with none of the four bidders offering more than ₹20,000 crore to acquire the debt-laden housing finance company (HFC) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). The bidding process ended on Saturday with offers submitted by Adani Group, Piramal Enterprise, US-based distressed asset fund Oaktree Capital and Hong Kong’s private banking firm SC Lowy. - Business Line
🍒 DLF raises Rs 2,400 crore from SBI to refinance debt, fund ongoing commercial projects : Realty major DLF's rental arm DCCDL has raised Rs 2,400 crore debt from India's largest lender SBI to refinance its existing debt and fund future expansion plans, a senior company official said. In an interview with PTI, DLF's group chief financial officer (CFO) Vivek Anand said the debt has been raised at a very attractive interest rate of 7.35 percent, enabling the company to reduce interest cost. DLF Cyber City Developers Ltd (DCCDL), the joint venture between DLF and Singapore sovereign fund GIC, has 33 million sq ft of office and retail properties generating an annual rental income of Rs 3,500 crore. DLF holds 66.66 percent stake in DCCDL while GIC has the rest. "DCCDL has secured funding of Rs 2,400 crore from India's largest public sector bank SBI. It sets a benchmark for lease rental discounting (LRD) in the country," Anand told PTI. - moneycontrol
🍒 Gems, jewellery exports may dip 20-25%; growth expected by FY22: GJEPC : The gems and jewellery export is expected to decline by 20-25 per cent this fiscal year compared to 2019-20 due to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, GJEPC said on Saturday. During 2019-20, the exports stood at Rs 2,52,249.46 crore, according to data provided by the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council of India (GJEPC). “We expect the exports to witness a decline of 20 25 per cent in 2020-21, compared with last year. With demand improving gradually, we should be at our 2019-20 levels next year. Growth will come back only maybe by 2021-22,” GJEPC chairman Colin Shah said at the virtual press conference about the closing of 5-day Virtual India International Jewellery Show (IIJS).- moneycontrol
🍒 Gold discount shrinks sharply in local markets amid festive demand : Amid signs of rising festive and wedding demand for gold jewellery, the bullion discount to the landed price in the key cities of Mumbai and Ahmedabad plummeted to $1 an ounce (31.1 gms appx) on Friday from a steep $44 early last month, industry sources said. Further, net bullion imports, which plunged 95% year on year to 11.6 tonnes in the June quarter, are expected to be much higher in Q3 , said jewellery retailer Kumar Jain of UT Zaveri in Mumbai's famous Zaveri Bazaar gold market. The pandemic-induced lockdown dragged down Q2 demand , but with restrictions easing steadily since then and many weddings deferred to the fourth quarter, jewellery demand is expected to improve in Q3 and Q4. Kumar Jain said that sales at his store are estimated to be 60-70% of the previous festive year , corresponding to the December quarter. - economic times
🍒 6 of top-10 most valued firms' combined market valuation tumble over Rs 1 lakh crore : The combined market valuation of six of the country’s top-10 most valued firms declined by Rs 1,02,779.4 crore last week, with Reliance Industries (RIL)taking the biggest hit. Over the past week, the Sensex lost 526.51 points or 1.29 per cent. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, HCL Technologies and Bharti Airtel suffered losses in their market capitalisation during the week, while Hindustan Unilever Limited, Infosys, HDFC and Kotak Mahindra Bank were the gainers. The valuation of RIL tumbled Rs 39,355.06 crore to reach Rs 14,71,081.28 crore.- moneycontrol.
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