While Indian banks' improved financial metrics do not fully reflect the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the under–capitalised PSBs are likely to remain risk averse and lose market share.
While the rating agency downgraded India’s sovereign rating, BofA Securities’ economists see the present downturn as cyclical rather than structural; say fiscal stimulus is critical for recovery.
Reliance plans to launch a unique physical-digital retail business platform that is already being piloted across India and is expected to be rolled out nationally in the coming years.
The government’s partial credit guarantee on asset purchases does not address investors’ long-term concerns about the sector’s exposure to stressed real estate: Fitch Ratings.
Opinion is divided but most agree that without well executed reforms at public sector banks, recapitalisation will be nothing more than putting good money into bad assets.
The government’s re-capitalisation plan for the banks has driven up banking stocks sharply. Analysts expect that fresh funds to banks will help them overcome their NPA problems and lend again.
