long-term bonds
For an affordable housing and infrastructure Reserve Banks allowed all banks to give loan against housing bonds issued by them. This makes loan borrowers pleased. Proclamation by Reserve Bank of India Many of retail investors make investment in long-term housing bonds (type of bond to finance for housing development) to get financing affordable housing and [...] Continue Reading »
The global rating agency Moody in its report mentioned that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) new regulations which were issued last week which allowed the banks to issue long-term local currency bonds are considered as ‘credit positive’. Moody’s vice-president SrikanthVadlamani and associate analyst Nick Caes giving further insight on this development mentioned that these [...] Continue Reading »
Realtors’ body CREDAI (The confederation of Real Estate Developers’ Association of India) today appreciated the RBI’s (Reserve Bank of India) move to ease norms for banks to raise long term funds for financing affordable housing. They believe that this will lead to cheaper credit for such projects. In order to encourage infrastructure development and affordable housing, [...] Continue Reading »
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) once it revisits the existing guidelines will open up the banking space to more entrants. In the past the central bank has observed that it needs more differentiated players in the system and that licences would be available ‘on tap’; in keeping with this viewpoint, windows for accepting applications [...] Continue Reading »
Indian banks are allowed to issue 30-year fixed rate home loans under the priority sector category in order to make loans more affordable, announced a Reserve Bank of India panel. A rating agency issued a warning that banks were lending long-term loans with one-year deposits due to which asset-liability mismatches are significantly high for some [...] Continue Reading »
