{"id":2719,"date":"2022-05-16T05:50:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rvkassociates.com\/blog\/?p=2719"},"modified":"2022-05-16T05:50:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-16T05:50:22","slug":"lending-by-commercial-banks-to-nbfcs-and-small-finance-banks-sfbs-to-nbfc-mfis-forthe-purpose-of-on-lending-to-priority-sectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/lending-by-commercial-banks-to-nbfcs-and-small-finance-banks-sfbs-to-nbfc-mfis-forthe-purpose-of-on-lending-to-priority-sectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Lending by Commercial Banks to NBFCs and Small Finance Banks (SFBs) to NBFC-MFIs, for<br>the purpose of on-lending to priority sectors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">May 13, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chairman\/ Managing Director\/<br>Chief Executive Officer<br>All Scheduled Commercial Banks (Including Small Finance Banks)<br>(Excluding Regional Rural Banks, Urban Co-operative Banks and Local Area Banks)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Sir\/Madam,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Please refer to para nos. 21.2, 21.3, 22 and 24 of the Master Directions on Priority Sector Lending dated September 4, 2020 (updated from time to time), along with notifications FIDD.CO.Plan. BC.No.15\/04.09.01\/2021-22 dated October 8, 2021 and FIDD.CO.Plan.BC.No.10\/04.09.01\/2021-22 dated May 5, 2021 wherein lending by commercial banks to NBFCs and lending by Small Finance Banks (SFBs) to NBFC-MFIs, for the purpose of on-lending to certain priority sectors, was permitted up to March 31, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"2\" class=\"is-style-none wp-block-list\"><li>2. To ensure continuation of the synergies that have been developed between banks and NBFCs in delivering credit to the specified priority sectors, it has been decided to allow the above facility on an on-going basis.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<ol start=\"3\" class=\"is-style-none wp-block-list\"><li>3. Bank credit to NBFCs (including HFCs) for on-lending will be allowed up to an overall limit of 5 percent of an individual bank\u2019s total priority sector lending in case of commercial banks. In case of SFBs, credit to NBFC-MFIs and other MFIs (Societies, Trusts, etc.) which are members of RBI recognized \u2018SelfRegulatory Organisation\u2019 of the sector, will be allowed up to an overall limit of 10 percent of an individual bank\u2019s total priority sector lending. These limits shall be computed by averaging across four quarters of the financial year, to determine adherence to the prescribed cap.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>4. SFBs are allowed to lend to registered NBFC-MFIs and other MFIs which have a \u2018gross loan portfolio\u2019 (GLP) of up to \u20b9500 crore as on March 31 of the previous financial year, for the purpose of on-lending to priority sector. In case the GLP of the NBFC-MFIs\/other MFIs exceeds the stipulated limit at a later date, all priority sector loans created prior to exceeding the GLP limit will continue to be classified by the SFBs as PSL till repayment\/maturity, whichever is earlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">Yours faithfully,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\"><br>(Sonali Sen Gupta)<br>Chief General Manager-in-Charge<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For full detail click the link below :<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/295g0hob52949pt\/Lending%20by%20Commercial%20Banks%20to%20NBFCs%20and%20Small%20Finance%20Banks.PDF?dl=0\">https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/295g0hob52949pt\/Lending%20by%20Commercial%20Banks%20to%20NBFCs%20and%20Small%20Finance%20Banks.PDF?dl=0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 13, 2022 The Chairman\/ Managing Director\/Chief Executive OfficerAll Scheduled Commercial Banks (Including Small Finance Banks)(Excluding Regional Rural Banks, Urban Co-operative Banks and Local Area Banks) Dear Sir\/Madam, Please refer to para nos. 21.2, 21.3, 22 and 24 of the Master Directions on Priority Sector Lending dated September 4, 2020 (updated from time to time), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-2719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notifications","category-rbi","tag-rbi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2720,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2719\/revisions\/2720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rvks.in\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}