Credit Guarantee Scheme for NBFC

The government has rolled out a credit guarantee scheme for NBFC. As per the scheme, the PSU’s can purchase the assets of the NBFC’s

The government, in order to provide a support system to the Non-Banking Financial Companies, have rolled out a partial credit guarantee scheme. The scheme will provide NBFC’s with liquidity and help avoid distress sale of assets.

The scheme is a one-time partial scheme and will be available for the companies till the 6-month period of time or till the government or banks exhaust 1 lakh crore.

The scheme provided relief to Housing Finance companies and Non-banking Financial companies that are not under distress.

Credit Guarantee Scheme

The government launched the partial credit guarantee scheme on August 10 for public sector banks, wherein they are allowed to purchase the pooled assets of the non-banking financial companies for a limited period of time.

The scheme as launched by the government allows the banks to purchase the pooled-assets; the scheme is valid for 24 months only and is available for the public sector banks only.

The announcement of the scheme has followed after the rollout of Union budget by Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Eligibility Criteria 

The government has laid down stringent criteria for the NBFC in India to qualify under the scheme. As per the laid down policy, the government is:

• The company should have made a net profit in any of the last 2 years that have been established.
• The Net-Performing Asset of the company should not be more than 6% until March 2019.
• The NBFC trying to register themselves under the scheme should not be under SMA category between August 2017 and August 2018
• The Non-banking company should not have been mentioned under the Special Mention Accounts category by the banks for its borrowing

Guidelines for Purchase by Banks

The financial government has rolled out the scheme after the current financial year budget. The guidelines that the banks have to follow before they can purchase the pooled assets of NBFC and Housing Finance companies are:

1. The government can allow “AAA” or above rated pooled assets only to be purchased by the banks.
2. The state banks can buy pooled assets of NBFC’s up to 1 lakh crore in the current financial year

Buyback by NBFC

The NBFC companies have an option of purchasing back the assets purchased by the banks after 12 months of selling the pooled assets.

The NBFC can repurchase the pooled asset from the banking company as a repurchase transaction, on right to first refusal basis by the company.