Guidelines soon for PSU banks to take over pooled assets of NBFCs

15 Jul 2019 Evaluate

In a bid to deal with ongoing stress in Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) sector, guidelines will be issued soon for Public sector Undertakings (PSUs) to take over pooled assets of NBFCs. To enhance liquidity access for the sector, the government will provide one-time 6-month partial guarantee of Rs 1 lakh crore to state-run banks for purchasing consolidated high-rated pooled assets of financially-sound NBFCs. This will cover their first loss of up to 10 percent.

The banks would be allowed to pick up primarily 'AAA' rated assets where chances of delinquency is the lowest and big state-owned banks will be allowed to participate in this. It will help raise the balance sheet size of the participating banks and provide better-run NBFCs access to liquidity. Most of the assets will be not of maturity over three years. Banks, which themselves are in stress, will be kept out of this.

The government will allow NBFCs to raise funds in public issues, and the requirement of creating a debenture redemption reserve (DRR), which is currently applicable for only public issues as private placements are exempt, will be done away with. In a bid to improve regulatory oversight, the government also proposed to bring housing finance companies under the RBI from the fold of National Housing Bank. These steps are aimed at improving the condition of the NBFC sector as a whole. 

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