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Moneylife Digital Team 13 March 2025
Expressing concern over how homebuyers in the National Capital Region (NCR) have been held 'to ransom', the Supreme Court has hinted at ordering a central bureau of investigation (CBI) probe into an alleged nexus between real estate developers and banks through subvention schemes for various...

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Sahyaja MS (Bar  and   Bench) 28 February 2025
The Bombay High Court on Friday issued notice to Union Bank of India and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in response to a petition filed by industrialist Anil Ambani challenging the classification of his loan account as fraud.   The loan account is linked to the insolvency-bound Reliance...

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SN Thyagarajan (Bar  and   Bench) 26 February 2025
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), New Delhi, on February 25, admitted Ansal Properties and Infrastructure Limited (APIL) to the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (CIRP) under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016, on a petition filed by IL&FS Financial Services Limited...

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Moneylife Digital Team 11 February 2025
Financial creditors have recovered Rs3.58 lakh crore through 1,119 cases under the liquidation process of the national company law tribunal (NCLT) since the implementation of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) on 1 June 2016, the Union government informed the Rajya Sabha. However, the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 10 February 2025
Gold loan non-performing assets (NPAs) in commercial banks have surged by 62%, rising from Rs1,513 crore in March 2024 to Rs2,445 crore in June 2024, says the Union government. Responding to a question in the Lok Sabha, Union finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman says the overall gross NPAs...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 January 2025
Modifying its guidelines on the settlement of dues of borrowers by asset reconstruction companies (ARCs), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) says ARCs should use the settlement option only after examining all possible ways to recover dues.    RBI revised its guidelines and the amended paragraph...

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Moneylife Digital Team 31 December 2024
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has flagged increased stress in the microfinance sector, with rising delinquencies across all types of lenders and ticket sizes. While delinquency levels in consumer credit remained stable for banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), rising impairment can...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 December 2024
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised concerns about the growing risks associated with unsecured lending and private credit markets, urging heightened vigilance amidst a cooling credit growth environment. In its annual report on Trends and Progress of Banking in India 2023-24, RBI...

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India’s credit recovery legislations have been unmitigated failures. Until 1985, for credit recovery from non-performing assets (NPAs), the courts of law would take eons to dispose the recovery petitions. The Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985 (SICA), which was the first...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 November 2024
Holding State Bank of India (SBI) responsible for not personally informing the borrower about withdrawing free personal accident insurance cover, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed SBI to waive the home loan outstanding of Rs14.30 lakh and pay Rs75,000 as...

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Asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) were designed to clean up the banking sector by resolving non-performing assets (NPAs). Consequently, people outside the banking, finance and investment world had nothing to do with them nor had they heard much about them. A spate of defaults among realty...

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Debayan Roy (Bar  and   Bench) 18 November 2024
The Supreme Court on Monday sought a response from the Union government regarding the non-appointment of chairpersons in 11 Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRTs) across the country.   A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJI) Sanjiv Khanna and Justice PV Sanjay Kumar issued notice on a plea...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 October 2024
Regulatory streamlining of lending by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will impact gold loan disbursements during the transition phase and curb growth in the business, says a research note. Recently, RBI flagged certain irregular practices in the loan against gold jewellery space and asked...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 October 2024
Giving a big relief to the wife and family of a deceased home loan borrower, the national consumer disputes redressal commission (NCDRC) directed SBI Life Insurance Co Ltd to pay the amount insured for the home loan to State Bank of India (SBI). The lender is directed to accept the payment as...

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Thomas Franco (CFA) 04 October 2024
In a recent interview with the press in the industrial town of South India, Coimbatore, Nirmala Sitharama, the Union Finance Minister clarified to Mr Sundarraman, a reporter from The Indian Express, that according to the bank’s data available to her (which she cross-checked on her tablet), 49.5...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 October 2024
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) says it has observed several irregular practices by gold loan businesses and has asked supervised entities (SEs), including non-banking finance companies (NBFCs), to review their policies and also undertake a portfolio review.   Recently, RBI reviewed the...

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Moneylife Digital Team 27 September 2024
In a significant development following Moneylife's report, Supreme Infrastructure India Limited (SIIL) has withdrawn its proposed preferential issue of equity shares and convertible warrants that had raised serious concerns about corporate governance and public fund management. Moneylife...

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Moneylife Digital Team 24 September 2024
Sharing a Moneylife report on X, Jairam Ramesh, Congress party's general secretary in-charge of communication has urged Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to step in and examine State Bank of India (SBI)'s decision to convert its outstanding debt into equity in Supreme Infrastructure India Ltd...

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Moneylife Digital Team 23 September 2024
In a move that has surprised corporate watchers, State Bank of India (SBI) will take a dual role in the debt restructuring of defaulter Supreme Infrastructure India Ltd (SIIL). This development marks an unprecedented step in India's corporate debt resolution landscape, as the country's largest...

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