The executive director at Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for financial markets operations department, Rajeshwar Rao has blamed structural incentives for drawing companies to bank financing, preventing them from opting for issuing bonds.
Rajeshwar Rao also rued the lack of disincentives for unutilised working capital limits as one of the factors limiting corporate bond market development. He underlined that the Government, Reserve Bank and SEBI have been working on deepening the corporate bond markets, for the last two decades. The interventions delivered some successes initially, but the new issuances have plateaued in the last three years.
Rao further said that the newly formulated Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) can also help the corporate bond market development by throwing open non-investment grade securities to the long term investors like insurance, pension and provident funds.
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