Mumbai: The RBI has allowed lenders to carve out the “unsustainable” portion of their loans to troubled corporates and convert them into equity. The new restructuring scheme will help public sector banks in cleaning up large chunks of their bad loans, which amount to Rs 4.76 lakh crore. The extent of loans which cannot be supported by cash flows are termed unsustainable.
What separates this scheme from earlier steps is that instead of leaving it to banks, an overseeing committee of eminent persons will be constituted by the Indian Banks Association in consultation with the RBI to identify loans eligible for restructuring. Banks will be able to upgrade bad loans through this exercise. But they may have to take a haircut as the market val…
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