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Private sector lender Lakshmi Vilas Bank approves merger with Indiabulls Housing Finance
Fp Staff •Lakshmi Vilas Bank shareholders will get 14 shares of Indiabulls Housing Finance for 100 equity shares held
Planning to invest in a house? You can get these three benefits by taking home loan in a woman's name
Sona Gaharwar •Govt has also encouraged this new wave of development and has devised various concessions/ policies to facilitate smoother access of funds to women investors
Dewan Housing Finance shares fall sharply after ICRA downgrades commercial papers
•ICRA downgraded its rating on Dewan Housing’s 80 billion rupees ($1.12 billion) worth commercial papers to “A2 plus” from “A1 plus”
Non-banking finance companies' mess: Cash-strapped firms haven't seen the worst of liquidity crisis yet
Srikanth •In 2017-18, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) were the largest net borrowers from the financial system
Investors continue to dump NBFC, housing finance stocks tank up to 9% on persistent worries over liquidity constraints
•Liquidity concerns in the NBFC space have hit investor sentiment of late, with shares of many of these companies tumbling sharply.
IL&FS triggers NBFC crisis: Investors may stay on the sidelines for now fearing more defaults
Abhimanyu Sofat •As IL&FS grapples with its own problems of refinancing, slow monetisation of projects and drying up of funds, the anxiety has now spread to the financial sector.
IL&FS default to have effect on short-term liquidity; situation may result in higher interest rates for SMEs
Abhishek Bansal •The higher lending cost will inflate prices of goods and services which will, in turn, out to be negative for the economy in the long run.
Shares of housing finance firms crash sharply; DHFL tumbles 42% on massive selling over fears of a liquidity crisis
•shares of Indiabulls Housing Finance plunged 8.18 percent, Can Fin Homes dived 5.70 percent, LIC Housing Finance 5.05 percent and PNB Housing Finance 4.92 percent.
Govt issues minimum FDI requirement for unregistered financial services entities
•The minimum FDI capital is $20 million for unregistered/exempted entities engaged in 'fund based activities'.
Rising NPAs cut banks' lending to real estate sector to 17% in 2016 from 68% in 2013: Economic Survey
•Economic Survey says PE funds and financial institutions such as pension funds and sovereign wealth funds have replaced banks as largest source of real estate sector