Summary: This blog provides a brief overview of the new set of directions issued by the RBI consolidating the regulatory framework for ARCs. It also highlights additional requirements introduced for ARCs and discusses how the otherwise dispersed regulatory framework is now aligned under a unified set of directions. Continue Reading RBI’s Consolidation Drive: One Stop Repository For The ARC Regulatory Framework
In continuance of various measures to resolve the pile of non-performing assets (NPAs) in the financial sector, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has now turned its focus on the role and framework of Asset Reconstruction Companies (ARCs) in being an important part of the solution. Even though the ARCs were in the game since enactment of the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (“SARFAESI”), their performance has been sub-optimal and the recovery percentage abysmally low.[1]Continue Reading Overhaul of the ARC Framework – Need of the hour