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Rising bad loans cleared off, but recoveries show little improvement, sparking calls for accountability

Banks Vs NBFCs: Why MSMEs Prefer The Latter For Loans

Abhishek Sharma

Economy

The credit profiles of Indian banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) are expected to remain strong despite the challenging global environment

Global Central Banks To Remain Data Dependent As They Battle Elevated Inflation

According to the CME FedWatch tool, markets are now anticipating an 84 per cent likelihood of a 25 bps rate hike by the Fed in the upcoming July 2023 meeting

Ensure Affordable Credit To MSMEs To Achieve $1 Trn Merchandise Exports: Goyal To Bankers

Economy

The minister advises the banks to take advantage of the proposed scheme and extend adequate and affordable export credit to MSME exporters

US Federal Reserve Finally Pauses Interest Rate

World

The consumer inflation in the US is now around 4.9 per cent, falling sharply from a 40-year high of 9.1 per cent in June 2022

Amid Strong Loan Growth, Indian Banks’ Credit Profiles Well-placed To Face Global Hurdles

Moody’s says that credit conditions in India have gradually improved, with a significant reduction in the banks' stock of legacy problem loans over the past three years

Banks Should Work Towards Banking Unbanked: MoS Finance

The minister called for increasing bank penetration in rural areas. He directed banks to reduce the waiting period for loan disbursement, a release said

Current Balance Sheets Of Indian Banks In A Significantly Healthy Shape: HDFC

The Indian banking system has gone through a multiyear cleanup exercise prior to the pandemic, according to the research report

Indian Banks Are Epitome Of Resilience: SBI Report

When compared with other major countries, India has the least foreign claims, both as a counterparty basis and also as a guarantor basis, the report states

Neither Too Big To Fail, Nor Too Big To Save: It's Now Too Big To Hide

Nikhil Sohoni

Opinion

The Credit Suisse saga follows on the back of the Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) debacle, or rather the US regional banking stress, if one collectively looks at SVB, Signature Bank and the stress engulfing the First Regional Bank

Don’t Keep All Eggs In One Basket: Learnings From SVB Crisis

Abhishek Sharma

Entrepreneurship

As the Silicon Valley Bank crisis creates headlines across the globe, important lessons such as diversifying investments and global collaborations in seeking resolutions come to the fore

Indian Banks Likely To See Tighter Margins In FY24, Says Fitch Ratings

It attributed the contraction to the normalisation in deposit rates and said that banks should be able to offset some of the impact as they gradually pass through policy rate hikes to corporate loans, which are typically slower to reprice than retail and SME loans

'Adani Group Has Reduced Share Of Indian Banks In Their Borrowings,' Says Jefferies

Companies & Markets

The brokerage said that the share of bonds and foreign banks in total debt has risen to 37 per cent and 18 per cent now

Banks See Bad Loans Falling To Decade Low Of 4% By FY24 End