The Reserve Bank of India has proposed new guidelines capping regulated entities’ (RE) investments in Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs) at 15% of total lender investment. While unrestricted investments up to 5% of an AIF’s corpus are permitted, exceeding this limit and having downstream debt exposure triggers a 100% provisioning requirement.
Bank Lending to NBFCs Rises 26%, Fastest in FY26
In the previous fiscal year, bank lending to Non-Banking Finance Companies (NBFCs) witnessed an impressive 26 percent increase, fueled by the Reserve Bank of India’s