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Shriram City Union Finance will focus on personal, gold and small business loans to achieve its 18 per cent growth in AUM in the current fiscal year amid a slowdown in demand for two-wheelers due to shortage of components and other factors, a top company executive said. Noting that the demand in the economy has not yet fully recovered, while rural and semi-urban areas have been doing better now, Y S Chakravarti, MD & CEO, said majority of the company's business comes from semi-urban and rural markets and anything good for the rural economy will help the company's business. "Our focus will be on personal loan, gold loan and small business loans. In terms of economic recovery, we have not recovered fully. Urban areas are still struggling, to some extent the rural economy has picked up probably because, one the harvest has been good and in current year also there is good rainfall prediction,"Chakravarti told PTI in an interaction. He said the crop harvests and also the prices are ...
Microfinance institutions and an MFI-turned lender hailed the RBI's Regulatory Framework on microfinance loans announced on Monday saying that these guidelines will further deepen the penetration of micro-credit in the country. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) allowed microfinance lenders to fix interest rates on loans with a rider that those should not be usurious for the borrowers. A microfinance loan is defined as a collateral-free loan given to a household having an annual income of up to Rs 3 lakh. The framework for microfinance loans announced by the RBI will further help deepen penetration of micro-credit in the country, MD & CEO of Bandhan Bank C S Ghosh said. Bandhan Bank is a microfinance company that got a universal banking licence some years ago. The latest guidelines are a strong reflection of the maturity of MFIs in the country and will go a long way in harmonising the regulatory framework for different types of lenders, encouraging healthy competition and enabling ..