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COMMENT - Gold loans: Are they slipping into grey territory?

What is interesting about this market is that even though it has been growing in terms of total value, its growth rates have been muted.

January 15, 2018 / 21:04 IST
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RN Bhaskar

India’s “Gold Loan Market: Is the glitter fading?” a report brought out by KPMG, is very interesting for a variety of reasons.

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The report looks at a market that could be worth around Rs 4,92,000 crore in 2015-16. This is assuming that the organized gold loan market is worth Rs 1,96,600 crore (see chart alongside) and accounts for just 40% of the entire gold loan market in the country.