India Ratings maintains stable rating outlook for NBFCs in FY23

India Ratings and Research on Friday maintained a neutral sector outlook and a stable rating outlook for non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) in FY23. It believes that FY23, in absence of any negative event, would see normalization of business activities, after facing challenges in the past few years following the default by Infrastructure Leasing and Financial … Read more

Mahindra Finance predicts big improvement in asset quality by March end

Mahindra and Mahindra Financial Services (MMFS) continues to sound very positive on the asset quality and has predicted big improvements. Key points to note – As at December 31, 2021, its Gross NPA (GNPA) as per IND-AS was 11.30% and as per IRACP at 14-15%. (IND-AS are the accounting norms and IRACP is RBI’s Prudential … Read more

PTC Indian Financial Services sees unprecedented resignation by all the Independent Directors. Must be looked into by regulators urgently.

All 3 independent directors of PTC Indian Financial Services (PFS) have resigned citing corporate governance concerns. I don’t remember something like this happening before. Key points to note – PFS is the NBFC subsidiary of PTC India (65% ownership) Independent directors have raised corporate governance concerns especially on the MD & CEO of PFS, Pawan … Read more

Piramal Enterprises hires Rupen Jhaveri from KKR. An experienced connected hire.

Piramal Enterprises Limited (PEL) has appointed Rupen Jhaveri as Group President, with primary focus on the financial services. Key points to note: This is a newly created position. Jhaveri will be responsible for business development, strategy, merger and acquisition, capital allocation and corporate finance. He has joined from KKR India, where he was the Managing … Read more