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Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 28.10.2020

 🙏 Good Morning All.... ☕ 28.10.2020: Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 🍒 RBI asks lenders to implement compound interest waiver scheme : The Reserve Bank on Tuesday asked all lending institutions, including NBFCs, to implement the waiver of interest on interest for loans up to ₹2 crore for the six months moratorium period beginning March 1, 2020. On October 23, the government had announced the scheme for grant of ex-gratia payment of difference between compound interest and simple interest for six months to borrowers in specified loan accounts. The scheme mandates ex-gratia payment to certain categories of borrowers by way of crediting the difference between simple interest and compound interest for the period between March 1, 2020 to August 31, 2020 by respective lending institutions.- Business Line 🍒 RBI: Difficult years ahead for States, and federalism : The next few years are going to be challenging for States due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, which cou...
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Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 24.10.2020

 Good Morning All....  ☕ 24.10.2020: Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 🍒 RBI’s first OMO purchase of state development loans sees good response : In a bid to sooth bond market concerns over large state borrowings in the second half of the fiscal, the RBI announced open market operations (OMO) purchase of State Development Loans (SDLs) for the first time, as a special case, in its October policy. The first auction of ₹10,000 crore of SDLs on October 22, not only received good response, but experts also believe that future auctions could help narrow the spreads between SDLs and equivalent government securities in certain tenures. Against the notified amount of ₹10,000 crore, RBI received bids to the tune of ₹15,475 crore, implying a bid-to-cover-ratio (amount of bids received relative to the amount announced) of 1.5:1 times. Top OMO purchases (by amount) included ₹1,505 crore of 7.78 per cent Maharashtra SDL 2029 at a cut-off yield of about 6.5 per cent, ₹1,199 crore...
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Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 22.10.2020

 Good Morning  ☕ 22.10.2020: Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 🍒 Banks can deploy on-tap TLTRO funds in agriculture, retail and MSMEs: RBI : The Reserve Bank of India on Wednesday said that banks can deploy money drawn from Rs 1 trillion on-tap targeted long term repo operations (on-tap TLTRO) in six sectors - agriculture, agri-infrastructure, secured retail, MSMEs, and drugs, pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Liquidity availed by banks under the scheme has to be deployed in corporate bonds, commercial paper and non-convertible debentures issued by the entities in specific sectors. Liquidity availed under the scheme can also be used to extend loans and advances to these sectors, the RBI said in guidelines issued for the scheme. On tap TLTROs are intended to enable banks to conduct their operations smoothly and seamlessly without being hindered by illiquidity frictions. This was done in view of the borrowing requirements of the Centre and states in the second half of ...
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Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 21.10.2020

 Good Morning  ☕ 21.10.2020: Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 🍒 Bank of Baroda ties up with Toyota Kirloskar Motor : Bank of Baroda (BoB) has entered into a tie-up with Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM), whereby the bank will be one of the preferred financiers for the entire range of vehicles sold by the latter. India’s third-largest public sector bank, in a statement, said that under the tie-up, customers can avail customised solutions such as high on-road funding of 90 per cent, long repayment period of 84 months, no prepayment or foreclosure charges. On the other hand, TKM dealers will benefit from ‘digitised supply chain finance’ with competitive interest rates.Murali Ramaswami, Executive Director, BoB, said: “This alliance gives us an opportunity to penetrate deep into the relationship with automobile dealers and augment our dealer finance portfolio through our branches spread across the country. “Given the huge potential to cross-sell our other products to these ...
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Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 19.10.2020

 🙏 Good Morning All...   ☕ 19.10.2020: Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 🍒 Higher NPAs hinder monetary policy transmission: RBI paper : High incidence of non-performing assets (NPAs) in banks acts as a major roadblock in transmission of monetary policy actions of the Reserve Bank, a working paper prepared by the officials of the central bank said. The working paper also made a strong case for capital injection in state-owned banks, arguing that such a move would increase the credit flow to the real sector in addition to ensuing smoother transmission of monetary policy. "Presence of non-performing assets in a bank also weakens monetary policy transmission and lowers the loan growth rate," said the working paper co-authored by Silu Muduli and Harendra Behera, Department of Economic and Policy Research (DEPR), RBI. The RBI said the views expressed in the paper are those of authors and not of the Reserve Bank of India. - economic times 🍒 Retail cheque payments d...
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Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 17.10.2020

 Good Morning All.... ☕ 17.10.2020: Today's Banking / Financial News at a Glance 🍒 RBI to conduct auction of State Development Loans on October 22 : The Reserve Bank of India on Friday said it will conduct the first ever purchase auction of State Development Loans (SDLs) under Open Market Operations (OMOs) for an aggregate amount of ₹10,000 crore on October 22.  The central bank said the purchase auction amount has been kept at ₹10,000 crore, keeping in view that this is the first ever OMO purchase of SDLs. Depending on market response, the size of the auctions may be enhanced in the subsequent auctions, it added.  - Business Line 🍒 Rajkiran Rai elected IBA chief : The Managing Committee of the Indian Banks’ Association (IBA), at its meeting held on Friday, elected Rajkiran Rai G, Managing Director and CEO, Union Bank of India, as the Chairman of the Association for the term 2020-21. Dinesh Kumar Khara, Chairman, State Bank of India, was elected as Deputy Chairman of th...
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