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According to another banker, not too many companies are going for loan restructuring - partly because they do not want it to be recorded in their credit history, and partly due to the stiff conditions laid down by the Kamath committee.

Bankers will watch out for any guidance on how the RBI plans to manage the record excess liquidity in the financial system, which has distorted market conditions and led to a drop in short-term rates.

Southeast Asia's largest lender, which will pump in 25 billion rupees ($338 million) into its India unit, until recently had just over 30 branches in India but has now added more than 550 and 900-plus ATMs.

Social distancing rules have forced consumers to rethink how they spend, with digital payments becoming an increasingly attractive. This shift in mindset is reflected in the growth in outstanding balances. Credit card outstanding balances increased by 32% y-o-y in July 2020. This compares to a 33% y-o-y increase in balances at the same time last year.

"We have suggested revisiting the fit-and-proper criteria. We have said that financial conglomerates getting into banking should have a structure NOFHC to come through and that companies should be regulated through RBI guidelines and necessary legislative framework," says Sachin Chaturvedi who is on RBI's central board.

ATM players say that the main reason is that over seven years, the number of debit cards in India has doubled to 86 crore as of September 2020. And of those cards, 35 per cent (30 crore) are RuPay ones issued to PM Jan Dhan Yojana accounts.

November this year saw a substantial number of bank holidays. There were quite a few nationwide holidays as well as some state-specific ones.

"In the Asia Pacific region, banks' rising nonperforming loans and insurers' volatile investment portfolios are in focus. Capital will moderately fall in emerging Asia over the next two years, and banks in India and Sri Lanka will post larger capital declines without public or private injections," Moody's said.

The amalgamation of LVB into DBS Bank India came into effect from November 27 under the special powers of the government and the Reserve Bank of India under Section 45 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

Sidbi's helpline- a web portal-"arm-msme" is designed to help MSMEs take benefit of Reserve Bank of India's MSME restructuring guideline.

The company informed the exchanges that it failed to pay interest of Rs 4.77 crore to HDFC and Rs 0.71 crore to Axis Bank on October 31 as it was unable to proceed with asset monetisation due to various legal barriers, it said in a regulatory filing on November 27.