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The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has allowed banks to restructure loans under its new Resolution Framework 2.0 for Covid Related Stressed Assets of Individuals, Small Businesses and MSMEs.

Experian India, world’s leading global information services company specialising in decisioning, data analytics, and the first credit bureau to be licensed in India has appointed Neeraj Dhawan as its new Managing Director.

What is the state of credit information today? How is India faring on the technology front? Watch Mohan Jayaraman, Managing Director South East Asia and Regional Innovation at Experian Asia Pacific, in an insightful fireside chat with Satish Mehta, Chief Evangelist at Athena e-learn, about the importance of financial inclusion in APAC, how consumers can strengthen their financial identities, the technology landscape in India, and more.

The latest entrant in the credit card market, IDFC First Bank, has offered the lowest interest among all credit cards: as low as 9 percent! In a recent interaction with Moneycontrol (before the bank’s silent period began due to its impending financial results), the bank’s managing director and chief executive officer, V. Vaidyanathan said that IDFC First Bank is the first bank in India to introduce the dynamic interest rate system for its credit card customers.

The second wave of Experian's Global Insights Report highlights that 99 per cent of Indian businesses have implemented strategies related to recognising their customers across various platforms. Experian- a leading global information services company - surveyed 3,000 consumers and 900 executives working in consumer technology, retail banks, E-commerce, and telecommunications.

The second wave of Experian's Global Insights Report highlights that 99 per cent of Indian businesses have implemented strategies related to recognising their customers across various platforms. Experian- a leading global information services company - surveyed 3,000 consumers and 900 executives working in consumer technology, retail banks, E-commerce, and telecommunications.

You may have heard this line by J. Wellington Wimpy from the Popeye comics: “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” The phrase is in many ways the byword of the debtor, who seeks fiscal gratification now in exchange for payment deferred. But Wimpy had a card up his sleeve: He would never show up on Tuesday.

The growing reluctance of banks to shell out big-ticket corporate loans is tilting the scale in favour of retail Borrowers. According to Akash Lal, senior partner, McKinsey, with these retail loans having accounted for almost 100 per cent of risk adjusted revenue in FY20 despite them constituting only 48 per cent of the banking system’s total revenues, the overall share of retail loans of banks is only set to go up.

When Canara Bank announced its qualified institutional placement (QIP) at Rs 103.5 apiece last week, critics questioned if a public sector bank (PSB) can go to the market by itself. After all, direct market equity sourcing has just been aspirational for a long time and turning to the government for recapitalisation is an easier option for PSBs.