"The health insurance market is having a number of individual health insurance products. Each product has unique features and the insuring public may find it a challenge to choose an appropriate product. Therefore,...the Authority has decided to mandate all general and health insures to offer the standard individual health insurance product," the regulator said.
On a year-on-year basis, banks' credit growth slowed to 7.2 per cent to Rs 86.73 lakh crore in November 2019 from 13.8 per cent increase to Rs 80.93 lakh crore in the year-ago period.
While SBI has put on sale Rs 1,554.87 crore of three assets, state-run Union Bank of India has invited bids to sell 11 NPAs worth Rs 1,280.87 crore, according to separate public notices by the two lenders.
Vikramaditya Singh Khichi, Executive Director at Bank of Baroda said, “There is huge potential in the retail home loan space that can be tapped through co-lending partnerships between large organizations like Bank of Baroda and finance players like JM Financial Home Loans."
Indians travelling to the UAE, Singapore, Sri Lanka, the UK, the US, Spain, Switzerland and Thailand will be able to earn up to Rs 16,000 cashback per month by getting their RuPay International Card activated, the NPCI said in a release.
JM Financial Home Loans, the affordable housing focused lending arm of JM Financial Group, is eyeing a five-fold increase in loan book next fiscal with the co-lending tie-up it has entered into with Bank of Baroda.
Credit flow to MSMEs shrinks as lenders turn cautious owing to economic slump. The contraction in gross credit flow to the sector could be on the back of risk-averse lending by top banks as slowing consumption and stalling manufacturing growth. Between November 2018 and 2019, gross loans to micro and small industries fell 0.1%.
Credit flow to MSMEs shrinks as lenders turn cautious owing to economic slump. The contraction in gross credit flow to the sector could be on the back of risk-averse lending by top banks as slowing consumption and stalling manufacturing growth. Between November 2018 and 2019, gross loans to micro and small industries fell 0.1%.
As January 7 deadline set by RBI looms, inter-creditor agreements are yet to be signed for exposures amounting to Rs 33,610 crore. Resolution plans under the ICA framework have been taking longer than anticipated because banks and non-bank lenders, such as mutual funds and insurance companies, appear to have differences of opinion.
In a New Year message to employees, Kotak urged everyone to be on the toes in the current environment where Charles Darwin's 'Survival of the Fittest' is most applicable and also gave examples of sectors like telecom, airlines, real estate and finance, where there have been troubles.
Users can download the app, called 'MANI', which is an acronym for Mobile Aided Note Identifier, and will have to scan the notes using the camera, it said adding that the audio output to give our results will be in Hindi and English.
The repayment crisis in upper part of the northeast state begun in November when protesters demanding ban against microfinance activities in the state. In December, repayment dropped further with protests against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019 impacting business across the state.
Bank credit to industry shrunk by 3.9%, or Rs 1.13 lakh crore, during the first eight months of the current financial year, according to data released by the RBI. Despite this, overall bank credit continues to be up 1% largely due to home loans and other personal loans.