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The Banks or Secured Creditors do feel comfortable in recovering their dues using the provisions of SARFAESI Act, 2002. The object of the enactment, as everybody knows, is to enable the Banks/Secured Creditors to reduce the level of ‘Non-performing Full Article

The object of the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 is to regulate Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest and for matters connected Full Article

What normally happens is that when the borrower fails to get an order of stay of proceedings by the Bank under the provisions of SARFAESI Act, 2002 under section 17 or where there is no restraint from the competent forum, the Bank will proceed with taking physical possession of the property and then proceed with auctioning the same in accordance with the provisions of the Act or the rules made there-under. As such, there can be an argument that the question of approachin.. Full Article

Please refer to paragraph 7.5 of our Master Circular dated July 1, 2009 on Lending to Priority Sector, in terms of which loans granted to Housing Finance Companies (HFCs), approved by National Housing Bank for the purpose of refinance, for on-lending to individuals for purchase/construction of dwelling units, provided the housing loans granted by HFCs do not exceed Rs.20 lakh per dwelling unit per family, are eligible to be classified under priority sector. However, the.. Full Article

It's one of those numbers that's so unbelievable you have to actually think about it for a while... Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And that's not counting any additional deficit spending, which is estimated to be around $1.5 trillion. Put the two numbers together. Then ask yourself, how in the world can the Treasury borrow $3.5 trillion in only one year? That's an amount equal to nearly 30% of our entir.. Full Article

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued guidelines on ‘Fair Practice Code for Lenders’ which are required to be framed by Banks/Financial Institutions/ Non Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) duly adopted by their respective Boards. These guidelines which are revised periodically, inter-alia, stipulate that loan application forms in respect of all categories of loans irrespective of the amount of loan sought by the borrower should be comprehensive. Full Article

As announced by the Hon'ble Finance Minister in his Budget Speech on February 28, 1994, in order to alert the banks and FIs and put them on guard against borrowers who have defaulted in their dues to other lending institutions, the Reserve Bank of India was putting in place arrangements for circulating among banks and FIs names of defaulting borrowers above a threshold limit. Full Article

SUMMARY OF CASE LAW Normally, on the placing of funds in banks on short-term or long-term deposits, the interest income derived from those sources would be “income from other sources”; but it is not so easy to decide that interest income is always assessable under the head “income from other sources”; each case has got [...] Full Article