NBFC liquidity crisis, poor sentiment in property market hit LAP segment in FY19: Ind-Ra

14 May 2019 Evaluate

India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) in its latest report stated that liquidity crisis faced by non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) along with poor sentiment in the property market has weakened the performance of the loans against property (LAP) segment in 2018-19. He also said that other segments, especially commercial vehicle loans which were not doing so good recently, are showing signs of improvement. 

According to the report, delinquency indices for the LAP transactions rated by the agency have been on the rise and the 90-day overdue loans increasing to 1.77 percent in January 2019 from 1.05 percent in the year-ago period. It also said that high delinquencies have been observed among high loan-to-value and high-yield buckets. In the case of commercial vehicle (CV) loans, it said its early delinquency index for rated CV loans dropped to 7.53 percent in January as compared to 8.19 percent in the year-ago period.

The rating agency has pointed out that the improvement in the performance of CV loans has mainly been on account of a moderate uptick in freight rates and changes in government norms such as revised axle load norms, which have led to adequate asset utilisation and, hence, regular cash flows for borrowers, thereby ensuring timely debt servicing. It observed that new vehicle loans have performed better than the used vehicle loans and added that the performance has improved across states. In the case of micro-finance, it said capital infusion, desire to diversify into newer geographies and significant improvement and updates in underwriting standards resulted in an improvement.

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