Infrastructure Loans

NaBFID has sought a relaxation in capital requirement norms from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to enable an efficient rollout of the PCE facility.

Chart of the Day: India’s infrastructure story needs credit for credibility

An infrastructure-driven GDP growth needs the much needed fuel of credit.

Is RBI turning too conservative on credit risk amid growth worries?

Stifling credit growth in the name of risk management is akin to throwing the baby with the bathwater. Government has sent the right message.

L&T CFO says RBI's proposed tighter infra lending norms will promote higher quality and cost effective projects

The RBI's proposals may lead to some rationing of resources but in the medium to long term he expects the proposal to support good projects

'Holding on to leveraged PSUs is just asking for trouble'

There is no need to sell MNC consumer companies such as HUL, or some of the themes which are emerging in the market, such as liquor companies. But if an investor has a leveraged block, or PSU block, there will be trouble if they hold on to it, because even if there is a pullback rally, the chances of these stocks being a part of it are less.

FX loans to get cheaper as FM cuts withholding tax

The FM today cut the withholding tax from 20% to 5%. Hitherto this lower rate was only for infrastructure loans. This innocuous looking amendment may change the way Indian corporate borrow, reports CNBC-TV18‘s Latha Venkatesh.

Bajaj Finserv sees growth slowing for individual verticals

Sanjiv Bajaj, managing director of Bajaj FinServ & Investments tells CNBC-TV18 that his company is slowly starting to see the effect of slowing growth indicators across the verticals. "But opportunities for growth do exist," he says.

Teaser loans, the trouble maker?

The benchmark banking index, Bankex, has been brought down 7.5% this week on fears that the infrastructure loans given out by banks may go bad. But veteran bankers say, the bigger time bomb for the lenders may be teaser home loans, CNBC-TV18's Gopika Gopakumar and Latha Venkatesh report.

Infra loans from banks: Too much lending too soon?

India’s top bankers, S Sridharan MD of SBI and Shikha Sharma MD, CEO of Axis Bank, in an exclusive interview on CNBC-TV18, detail if infrastructure loans given by banks could lead to asset liability mismatches, a greater chance of bad loans or if it is too early to worry.