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Top-up lending or prop-up lending: RBI cautions against NBFCs lending practices

– Anita Baid, Senior Vice President | anita@vinodkothari.com The recent press reports highlighting the RBI’s focus or nudge towards NBFCs regarding their lending practices, particularly those that raise concerns about evergreening of loans, demand a comprehensive analysis.  Extending further credit to a borrower already facing financial distress can be similar to the cautionary tale of an […]

Bihar MFI Bill: A Macro Panic for Micro Finance?

By Aditya Iyer ( reachable at – adityaiyer20@gmail.com). Aditya, a former colleague, wrote this piece for the Financial Services Division (finserv@vinodkothari.com)  The new Bihar MFI Bill appears to have triggered first reactions, which, looking at stock prices of some of the players, are quite adverse. However, for regulated entities, it is important to chart out […]

Significant Risk Transfer: Market, Structures, Economics and Risks

Vinod Kothari and Dayita Kanodia | Finserv@vinodkothari.com  Introduction Known by various alternative names as “synthetic risk transfers”, “credit risk transfers”, “on balance sheet securitisation” or “synthetic securitisation”, Significant Risk Transfers (SRT) have a history of over 25 years but have recently grown faster than other components of either traditional securitisation or credit derivatives.  The pool […]