Independent Research and Policy Advocacy

Expanding Access To Bank Credit By Building The NBFC Periphery

he current approach is making NBFCs safer but requiring banks to become riskier, write Nachiket Mor and Dwijaraj Bhattacharya.

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How government backstops can best ease credit flows to MSMEs

The Indian government has set into motion the implementation of several schemes that are aimed at improving both the liability and asset sides of the balance sheets of banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), so that lending to the real economy can increase. The most recently introduced are four schemes.

It’s unfair to NBFCs

India is a bank-dominated financial system with about two-thirds of all financial assets in the economy belonging to the banking sector.

NBFCs’ collection efficiency takes a hit post demonetisation

Non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) represent an important linkage between the formal banking sector and informal segments of the real economy in India (wage labourers, smallholder farmers, unorganised retail, and domestic workers) through the channelling of credit from the former to the latter. They have a significant presence in the microfinance, small business finance and commercial […]