ICICI Bank, India's largest private sector bank, has decided to discontinue buying bilateral securitised portfolios of non-banking finance companies (NBFC) as stated in some media reports. This move by the bank comes at a time when RBI is restricting lending by banks to NBFCs.
Bilateral securitisation is the sale of loan from NBFCs to a bank. Banks buy securitised portfolios from NBFCs to meet their priority sector requirement and private banks are the largest buyers of securitised papers of NBFCs. As per the RBI guideline, private banks have to lend 32% of their loans to priority sector and public sector banks have to lend 40%. Under priority sector lending, NBFCs borrow at a discounted interest rate.
In the last policy announcement, the central bank had removed priority sector status on lending to NBFCs. It stated that that the bank loans to NBFCs, excluding microfinance institutions which are categorised as NBFC, would not be classified as priority sector loans. However, it left the securitised loan portfolios untouched at least on paper. In addition, April this year, RBI had also introduced stringent norms on securitisation as the central bank has been worried about the growing exposure of banks to NBFCs.
Company Name | CMP |
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HDFC Bank | 1772.05 |
ICICI Bank | 1285.70 |
Axis Bank | 1072.10 |
Kotak Mahindra Bank | 1743.55 |
Indusind Bank | 930.00 |
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