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Following the recent downgrade of the country’s largest lender State Bank of India by credit rating agency Moody’s Investor Services, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to focus on recovery and follow a stringent credit appraisal procedure. The RBI has asked banks to remain cautious in the wake of a higher-than-expected rate hike that could have an adverse impact on the asset quality of banks. Full Article

The Gross Non-performing Assets (NPA) of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) for the period ending March, 2011 stood at Rs. 71,047 crore. Full Article

The Maharashtra State Co-operative Bank, run largely by Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) leaders, has turned its loss of Rs 1,043 crore in 2009-10 into a profit of Rs 2.87 crore. The wrongdoing was exposed by the auditors of the bank, whose chairman is NCP leader Manikrao Patil and 40 of whose 77 directors are linked to the party. Patil, it is believed, is a puppet in the hands of Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, who has virtually been running the bank for the past 17 y.. Full Article

To recover dues, bankers are trying to put the fear of God into obstinate defaulters to pay up. And how? By making it plain that they could get reported to the Credit Information Bureau, bankers have been able to achieve a modicum of success in recov Full Article

A day after the Supreme Court suggested that SFIO could help banks in recovering bad loans, the government on Thursday said it would look into the possibility of engaging the corporate fraud probing body to deal with the menace of non-performing assets. Full Article

The finance ministry has asked government banks to shift to a system where non-performing assets (NPAs) are identified by technology. The aim is to avoid human interference. The ministry has told the government banks to put the system in place by March 2011. Full Article

Noting that public disclosure of names of bank loan defaulters could harm investors' interests, Government today ruled out a legislation to recover non-performing assets. "Government's interest is to reduce NPAs and recover outstanding loans from big, medium and small defaulters," Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in the Lok Sabha. Full Article

Of late, certain serious concerns have been expressed in different quarters and by the Debt Recovery Tribunals over the manner compromise settlements have been effected by banks. One of the DRTs had also observed that banks adopted different parameters to different borrowers, and agreed for a lesser amount as against claimed amount, despite availability of ample securities and by ignoring RBI guidelines. Full Article