RBI again defers Indian Accounting Standards implementation by banks
https://www.livemint.com/industry/b...ds-implementation-by-banks-1553271684415.html
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The new rules -- based on the IFRS9 standards created in the aftermath of the financial crisis -- were supposed to kick in at the start of the new fiscal year that starts on April 1, after being delayed last year. According to Fitch Ratings’ local unit, India’s state-run lenders would have had to increase provisions by as much as 1.1 trillion rupees ($16 billion) in the fiscal first quarter ending June 30 if the rules had gone ahead.
That would have forced public sector lenders to raise “substantial" amounts of extra capital, beyond the estimated 1.9 trillion rupee infusion already committed by the government for the two-year period to the end of this month, Fitch’s India Ratings & Research said in a report last month.
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https://www.livemint.com/industry/b...ds-implementation-by-banks-1553271684415.html
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The new rules -- based on the IFRS9 standards created in the aftermath of the financial crisis -- were supposed to kick in at the start of the new fiscal year that starts on April 1, after being delayed last year. According to Fitch Ratings’ local unit, India’s state-run lenders would have had to increase provisions by as much as 1.1 trillion rupees ($16 billion) in the fiscal first quarter ending June 30 if the rules had gone ahead.
That would have forced public sector lenders to raise “substantial" amounts of extra capital, beyond the estimated 1.9 trillion rupee infusion already committed by the government for the two-year period to the end of this month, Fitch’s India Ratings & Research said in a report last month.
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