The Reserve Financial institution of India (RBI) on Tuesday lifted its five-month-long restrictions on two Edelweiss Group entities—ECL Finance and Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Firm (ARC)—after the corporations took corrective steps to align with regulatory norms.
The restrictions, imposed on Might 29, had been no slap on the wrist. ECL Finance was barred from endeavor structured transactions tied to its wholesale exposures, apart from regular repayments or account closures.
Edelweiss ARC was ordered to halt acquisitions of monetary property, together with safety receipts (SRs), and reorganize its SR holdings into senior and subordinate tranches.
The corporations had been penalized for indulging in a sequence of “structured transactions” geared toward evergreening distressed loans—a transfer that disguised the true extent of pressured property.
Evergreening entails extending recent loans to pressured debtors to repay present ones, a observe the RBI has warned towards for masking monetary realities.
The regulator’s measures had been harsh however clear-cut. ECL and Edelweiss ARC confronted a strict freeze that pushed them into motion. “The businesses engaged with the RBI on the remedial measures to deal with the supervisory considerations,” the central financial institution mentioned. Happy with the measures undertaken, the RBI introduced the lifting of restrictions, signaling an finish to the sanctions underneath the RBI Act, 1934, and the SARFAESI Act, 2002.
