SC Hearing on Loan Moratorium LIVE Updates: The SC led by Justice Ashok Bhushan said it will hear Solicitor General Tushar Mehta today, legal news website LiveLaw reported.

SC Hearing on Loan Moratorium LIVE Updates: India must not neglect bank recap despite pandemic, says former RBI deputy governor Viral Acharya

India is neglecting bank recapitalisation as it focuses on debt moratoriums and interest waivers for borrowers amid the COVID-19 pandemic, a former central bank official told Reuters in October.

Indian banks are saddled with over $120 billion in bad debt, and in severely stressed conditions the bad-loan ratio could nearly double by March, according to Reserve Bank of India projections.

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SC Hearing on Loan Moratorium LIVE Updates: Banks seek extension of loan recast window till March 31: Report

Banks have requested an extension of restructuring window outlined by the KV Kamath committee, to March 31, 2021.

The Indian Banks' Association (IBA) has asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to keep the loan recast window open after the current expiry on December 31, The Economic Times reported.

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SC Hearing on Loan Moratorium LIVE Updates: Very few borrowers seek loan restructuring, big fear of NPAs unfounded, says SBI report

Very few of the borrowers have till date applied for restructuring and incrementally such borrowers are likely to be much lower, SBI said in a report on Wednesday.

“This is a notable climb-down from the base case scenario and it is largely a part of the humongous efforts of the banks to redesign the banker and corporate relationship since the unveiling of AQR,” the report said.

Subsequently, the big fear of large slippage in asset quality of banks is unfounded with Indian banks guiding at much lower credit cost than even their Asian counterparts, the report said.

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RBI Moratorium Interest-waiver issue: A face-saver solution emerges finally. Here's an explainer

The prolonged uncertainty and confusion on the interest-waiver issue has come to an end with the Centre agreeing to compensate banks and the RBI notifying the scheme.

SC Hearing on Loan Moratorium LIVE Updates: Here's what happened so far: 

> The SC had on September 3 instructed banks not to declare accounts as non-performing assets (NPAs) until further orders.

> The SC on November 19 disposed off petitions in which the petitioners are satisfied with compound interest waiver.

> The SC has previously said there is "no merit in charging interest on interest".

> The RBI had on June 4 said lenders will lose Rs 2 lakh crore if interest is waived completely during the moratorium period.

SC on Loan Moratorium LIVE Updates: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had in March 2020 announced a moratorium on repayment of term deposits for three months, which was later extended till August 31. The move was intended to provide borrowers relief during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Since then, petitions have been filed in the Supreme Court seeking complete interest waiver during the six-month period of March 1 to August 31. 

In October, The Centre agreed to waive compound interest on the repayment of loans of up to Rs 2 crore in some categories, a move that would provide relief to individual and MSME borrowers.

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Good morning! The Supreme Court will today resume hearing petitions seeking interest waiver during the six-month loan moratorium period.

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