Day 6 Finance Task
Day 6 Finance Task
Day 6 Finance Task
A Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) is a company registered under the Companies Act, 1956
engaged in the business of loans and advances, acquisition of shares / stocks / bonds /debentures /
securities issued by Government or local authority or other marketable securities of a like nature,
leasing, hire-purchase, insurance business, chit business but does not include any institution whose
principal business is that of agriculture activity, industrial activity, purchase or sale of any goods (other
than securities) or providing any services and sale/purchase/construction of immovable property. A non-
banking institution which is a company and has principal business of receiving deposits under any
scheme or arrangement in one lump sum or in installments by way of contributions or in any other
manner, is also a non-banking financial company (reiduary non banking company)
NBFCs lend and make investments and hence their activities are akin to that of banks; however there are
a few differences as given below
ii. NBFCs do not form part of the payment and settlement system and cannot issue cheques drawn on
itself
iii. deposit insurance facility of Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation is not available to
depositors of NBFCs, unlike in case of banking financial company (Residuary non-banking company)
NBFCs are categorized a) in terms of the type of liabilities into Deposit and Non-Deposit accepting
NBFCs b) non deposit taking NBFCs by their size into systemically important and other non-deposit
holding companies (NBFC-NDSI and NBFC-ND) and c) by the kind of activity they conduct. Within
this broad categorization the different types of NBFCs are as follows
I. Asset Finance Company (AFC) An AFC is a company which is a financial institution carrying on as its
principal business the financing of physical assets supporting productive / economic activity, such as
automobiles, tractors, lathe machines, generator sets, earth moving and material handling equipments,
moving on own power and general purpose industrial machines. Principal business for this purpose is
defined as aggregate of financing real / physical assets supporting economic activity and income arising
therefrom is not less than 60% of its total assets and total income respectively.
II. Investment Company (IC) IC means any company which is a financial institution carrying on as its
principal business the acquisition of securities,
III. Loan Company (LC): LC means any company which is a financial institution carrying on as its principal
business the providing of finance whether by making loans or advances or otherwise for any activity
other than its own but does not include an Asset Finance Company.
IV. Infrastructure Finance Company (IFC): IFC is a non-banking finance company a) which deploys at
least 75 per cent of its total assets in infrastructure loans, b) has a minimum Net Owned Funds of ₹
300 crore, c) has a minimum credit rating of ‘A ‘or equivalent d) and a CRAR (capital to risk weighted
asset ratio) of 15%.
V. Systemically Important Core Investment Company (CIC-ND-SI): CIC-ND-SI is an NBFC carrying on the
business of acquisition of shares and securities which satisfies the following conditions:-
(a) it holds not less than 90% of its Total Assets in the form of investment in equity shares, preference
shares, debt or loans in group companies
(b) its investments in the equity shares (including instruments compulsorily convertible into equity
shares within a period not exceeding 10 years from the date of issue) in group companies constitutes not
less than 60% of its Total Assets
(c) it does not trade in its investments in shares, debt or loans in group companies except through block
sale for the purpose of dilution or disinvestment
(d) it does not carry on any other financial activity referred to in Section 45I(c) and 45I(f) of the RBI act,
1934 except investment in bank deposits, money market instruments, government securities, loans to
and investments in debt issuances of group companies or guarantees issued on behalf of group
companies.
VI. Infrastructure Debt Fund: Non- Banking Financial Company (IDF-NBFC) : IDF-NBFC is a company
registered as NBFC to facilitate the flow of long term debt into infrastructure projects. IDF-NBFC raise
resources through issue of Rupee or Dollar denominated bonds of minimum 5 year maturity. Only
Infrastructure Finance Companies (IFC) can sponsor IDF-NBFCs.
VII. Non-Banking Financial Company - Micro Finance Institution (NBFC-MFI): NBFC-MFI is a non-deposit
taking NBFC having not less than 85% of its assets in the nature of qualifying assets which satisfy the
following criteria
a. loan disbursed by an NBFC-MFI to a borrower with a rural household annual income not exceeding ₹
1,00,000 or urban and semi-urban household income not exceeding ₹ 1,60,000
b. loan amount does not exceed ₹ 50,000 in the first cycle and ₹ 1,00,000 in subsequent cycles
d. tenure of the loan not to be less than 24 months for loan amount in excess of ₹ 15,000 with
prepayment without penalty
g. loan is repayable on weekly, fortnightly or monthly instalments at the choice of the borrower
IX. Mortgage Guarantee Companies (MGC) - MGC are financial institutions for which at least 90% of the
business turnover is mortgage guarantee business or at least 90% of the gross income is from mortgage
guarantee business and net owned fund is ₹ 100 crore.
X. NBFC- Non-Operative Financial Holding Company (NOFHC) is financial institution through which
promoter / promoter groups will be permitted to set up a new bank .It’s a wholly-owned Non-Operative
Financial Holding Company (NOFHC) which will hold the bank as well as all other financial services
companies regulated by RBI or other financial sector regulators, to the extent permissible under the
applicable regulatory prescriptions.