Banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) compete for similar business, such as lending. However, NBFCs do not provide deposit accounts. NBFCs obtain financing from banks through loans and by banks subscribing to NBFC debentures and commercial paper. To ensure banks' depositors are not exposed to risks of NBFCs' different cost structures, restrictions are placed on banks financing certain NBFC activities, such as bills discounted by NBFCs (except for vehicle financing), most NBFC investments in other companies, unsecured inter-corporate deposits, loans to subsidiaries or group companies, bridge loans, and leasing agreements with equipment leasing NBFCs.
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Chap 14 NBFC (CP)
Banks and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) compete for similar business, such as lending. However, NBFCs do not provide deposit accounts. NBFCs obtain financing from banks through loans and by banks subscribing to NBFC debentures and commercial paper. To ensure banks' depositors are not exposed to risks of NBFCs' different cost structures, restrictions are placed on banks financing certain NBFC activities, such as bills discounted by NBFCs (except for vehicle financing), most NBFC investments in other companies, unsecured inter-corporate deposits, loans to subsidiaries or group companies, bridge loans, and leasing agreements with equipment leasing NBFCs.
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14.
Financial Linkages Between Banks and NBFCs
Banks and NBFCs compete for some similar kinds of business on the asset side. NBFCs offer products/services which include leasing and hire-purchase, corporate loans, investment in nonconvertible debentures, IPO funding, margin funding, small ticket loans, venture capital, etc. However NBFCs do not provide operating account facilities like savings and current deposits,
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cash credits, overdrafts etc.
NBFCs avail of bank finance for their operations as advances or by way of banks subscription to debentures and commercial paper issued by them. Since both the banks and NBFCs are seen to be competing for increasingly similar types of some business, especially on the assets side, and since their regulatory and cost-incentive structures are not identical it is necessary to establish certain checks and balances to ensure that the banks depositors are not indirectly exposed to the risks of a different cost-incentive structure. Hence, following restrictions have been placed on the activities of NBFCs which banks may finance: i) Bills discounted / rediscounted by NBFCs, except for rediscounting of bills discounted by NBFCs arising from the sale of a) Commercial vehicles (including light commercial vehicles); and b) Two-wheeler and three-wheeler vehicles, subject to certain conditions; c) Investments of NBFCs both of current and long term nature, in any company/entity by way of shares, debentures, etc. with certain exemptions; ii) Unsecured loans/inter-corporate deposits by NBFCs to/in any company. A Study on Non Banking Financial Companies in India
iii) All types of loans/advances by NBFCs to their subsidiaries, group companies/entities.
iv) Finance to NBFCs for further lending to individuals for subscribing to Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). v) Bridge loans of any nature, or interim finance against capital/debenture issues and/or in the form of loans of a bridging nature pending raising of long-term funds from the market by way of capital, deposits, etc. to all categories of Non-Banking Financial Companies, i.e. equipment leasing and hire-purchase finance companies, loan and investment companies, Residuary Non-Banking Companies (RNBCs). vi) Should not enter into lease agreements departmentally with equipment leasing companies as well as other Non-Banking Financial Companies engaged in equipment leasing.
A Study on Non Banking Financial Companies in India