KOLKATA: National Housing Bank (NHB) is planning to raise long term capital requirement for housing finance companies(HFCs) to guard against their liquidity and solvency risks. The housing regulator has proposed to raise their capital adequacy ratio to 13% by March 2020 from 12% now as a fallout of the IL&FS-led crisis which forced several specialised home loan lenders, especially the smaller one, to slow down business to preserve liquidity. The draft amendments has proposed raising the CAR to 15% in a staggered manner by March 2022, while suggested a higher cap on borrowing. “HFCs are exposed to risks arising out of counterparty failures,…
Author: Loknath Das
New University of Liverpool research, published in Pediatrics, highlights the negative influence that social media has on children’s food intake. Current research shows celebrity endorsement and television advertising of unhealthy foods increases children’s intake of these foods. However, children are increasingly exposed to marketing through digital avenues, such as on social media, and the impact of marketing by YouTube video bloggers (vloggers) on these outcomes has, until now, not been known. According to a recent report by Ofcom children in the UK now access social media more than ever before. Approximately 93% of 8-11-year-olds go online, 77% use YouTube and 18%…
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London’s Jarrod Sammut attempts to break away from the Wolfpack during the Million Pound Game last October. Photograph: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images To suggest there will be mixed emotions for Jarrod Sammut this weekend is somewhat of an understatement. On Sunday, Wigan’s Malta international returns to London Broncos for the first time since guiding them to promotion in last year’s Million Pound Game. It has been a rollercoaster six months the 32-year-old will not forget in a hurry. Sammut is sure of a hero’s reception in Ealing but the story could have been so different for a player who…
Rickie Fowler said the new Rules of Golf requiring drops from knee-high height makes players look unathletic and ultimately aren’t growing the game. More PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. – Rickie Fowler’s rough-hewn imagery taking a dropThursday at the Honda Classic didn’t offend his Tour brothers. Not the ones he heard from, and Fowler said he heard from a lot of them after he applied some toilet humor to a drop in the first round. “A lot of them said it made them laugh,” Fowler said after posting a 2-over-par 72 Friday at PGA National. “They said they loved it. I haven’t heard…
Mumbai: L&T Finance said on Thursday it will launch a non-convertible debenture (NCD) issue to raise up to Rs 1,500 crore, yielding up to 9.35 per cent per annum. This tranche opens for subscription on March 6 and closes on March 20. The issue size is Rs 500 crore, with a greenshoe option of Rs 1,000 crore. These secured NCDs are rated ‘AAA’ by Care Ratings, ICRA and India Ratings. The proceeds from the issue will be utilised for onward lending, refinancing the existing debt and for general corporate purposes. The lead managers to the issue are Edelweiss Financial Services, AK Capital…
Welcome to our list of the best remote desktop software in 2019. Remote desktop software allows you to access one PC from another, even if the PCs are not in the same building – or even country! There are a number of business uses for remote desktop software. For example, you could use a PC in one office to access a PC in another one, to grab important files. You could also use a powerful remote PC to handle complex tasks while showing the results on a lower-powered laptop. The best remote desktop software is also useful for IT admins,…
The EU is building a regulatory framework to encourage investors to be more aware of the impact of their business on the environment. The Romanian Presidency of the Council and the European Parliament reached today a preliminary agreement on a proposal creating a new category of financial benchmarksaimed at giving greater information on an investment portfolio’s carbon footprint. The transition to a low-carbon, sustainable economy requires us to rethink how we do business, where we invest our money. Thanks to today’s agreement, it will be easier for investors to select climate-conscious projects, infrastructure and technologies, so as to re-orient capital flows…
BSA the Software Alliance is offering rewards of up to Bt1 million for confidential reports about companies using unlicensed industrial software in Thailand. Eligible are informants who report companies using illegal and unlicensed versions of software published by Altium, Autodesk, Aveva, Dassault Systemes, CNC Mastercam, Siemens PLM and Trimble, the owner of Tekla software, among other brands. “While some companies follow the law and invest in legal and secure industrial software, too many companies continue to break the rules when using industrial software,” says senior director Tarun Sawney. “In Thailand and across Asia, we are focused on ensuring there is…
Srei Equipment Finance Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Srei Infrastructure FinanceNSE 0.54 %, has tied up with state-owned Syndicate BankNSE 0.45 % to jointly provide financing for construction and farm equipment. Under the arrangement, Syndicate Bank would leverage on its low-cost funds and co-lend equipment loans with Srei Equipment at a mutually agreed rate, a company statement said on Thursday. The arrangement had been done under the aegis of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) circular dated September 21, 2018, that permits banks to engage with non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) to co-originate loans for the creation of priority sector assets, the statement added. iQuippo, a…