Foreclosure India Blog

Here are just a few of the reasons that homeowners and investors are going to the Bank Auctions / foreclosure market.

Dismissing appeals filed by around 60 companies, the Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the amendment to the Securitisation Act that gave power to every financial institution to decide a period after which a bad loan can be declared as a non-performing asset (NPA). Before the 2004 amendment to the Securitisation Act and Reconstruction of Financial Assets & Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (Sarfaesi Act), RBI was the regulator for the banking, non-banking and securitisation institutions for deciding the period after which loans could be treated as NPA. Till 2004, RBI had set the NPA period for banks at 90 days and at 180 days for NBFCs.

NEW DELHI: Supreme Court today upheld the constitutional validity of an amendment in the provision of the securitisation law which authorises the creditor to classify the account of a borrower as Non Performing Assets (NPA) in accordance with RBI guidelines and directions. The apex court passed the judgement while dealing with the amended definition of the expression ‘NPA’ under Section 2(1)(o) of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) Act, 2002.

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Calcutta, March 8: Non-bank finance companies (NBFCs) have welcomed the Centre’s decision to allow access to the Sarfaesi Act, which facilitates the recovery of non-performing assets without court intervention. Sarfaesi, or the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, enables banks to expedite recovery and improve credit behaviour. The NBFCs registered with the RBI and having an asset size of Rs 500 crore and above (considered as systemically important) will be eligible to access the provisions of the act.

Foreclosureindia.com was established in 2009 and it is a market place for Foreclosure / Bank Auction listings in India and also providing e-Auction services to 18 Banks, i.e. Central Bank of India, UBI, OBC, Lakshmi Vilas Bank, State Bank of Hyderabad, IDBI Bank, Corporation Bank, IOB, Karnataka Bank, ING Vysya Bank, CUB, Religare ARC, IARC etc. for selling non-performing assets though BankAuctions.IN.

That is the amount of bad loans waived in last three financial years, more than the write-off in the previous nine. Twenty-nine state-owned banks wrote off a total of Rs 1.14 lakh crore of bad debts between financial years 2013 and 2015, much more than they had done in the preceding nine years

India’s 29 state-owned banks have written off a total of Rs 1.14 lakh crore between 2012-13 and 2014-15, a sum large enough to build more than 10,000 km of highways. The Indian Express reported on Monday that “twenty-nine state-owned banks wrote off a total of Rs 1.14 lakh crore of bad debts between financial years 2013 and 2015, much more than they had done in the preceding nine years.”

MUMBAI:The government has thrown new rules at state-owned banks, nudging them to salvage their junk loans, which have strained balance sheets and re-priced stocks of several lenders.The finance ministry, concerned that a mountain of loss assets could call for bigger fund infusion into banks, has stepped in as the junk loan market has been at a standstill since last year.

Report said the move is credit-positive for NBFCs with a retail focus, especially those which are in the mortgage space. Domestic rating agency Icra has said the decision to extend provisions of the Sarfaesi Act to loans given by non-banking finance companies will help bring down delinquencies and may result in cheaper funds for borrowers. “The access to the Sarfaesi Act will strengthen NBFCs’ ability to contain life-time losses,” the rating agency said in a weekend note after the finance ministry decided recently to extend the provisions of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (Sarfaesi) Act 2002 to non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) with over Rs 500 crore in assets.