India is heading in the right direction and is innovating on the coverage facet, together with on digital id and funds, however it additionally must seize all of the segments of the monetary market and establishments to ensure that every bit suits collectively like a puzzle to gas progress within the nation, in line with a prime IMF official.
“The goal is to have an economy and a financial system that can absorb shocks. ..Balance sheets can be better managed, Non-Performing Loans (NPLs) can be better managed,” Tobias Adrian, Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) advised PTI in an interview.
The non-bank monetary system may be higher seen, and capital markets need to be deepened and made extra sturdy, he mentioned over the past week’s annual Spring assembly of the IMF and the World Bank. Of course, there’s the entire fintech agenda as nicely, which is essential in India as it’s all over the place else on the planet.
“We are in the technological revolution in payment space. And I think India has been path-breaking in many of these technologies and payment systems. Now there is lending that is done in India that is not done anywhere else because the infrastructure is quite strong in this area. But of course, more can be done,” Adrian mentioned in response to a query.
The IMF official underscored the importance of investments into monetary establishments, into oversight, and into infrastructures to make sure that the “financial system can absorb shocks and that is sustaining growth” in a long-term manner.
India, he mentioned, is heading in the right direction and is innovating on the coverage facet.
“It has been quite innovative on digital identity, for example. I think no country is laying like India in that respect,” he mentioned, noting that the nation must seize all of the segments of the monetary market and monetary establishments to ensure that every bit suits collectively like a puzzle to gas progress in India.
The common lesson from the COVID-19 disaster, he mentioned, is that when the horrible antagonistic shock hits one must aggressively provide liquidity.
Secondly, the fiscal assist was crucial on this specific disaster and that in fact depending on how a lot fiscal area every nation had. Thirdly, in fact monetary sector insurance policies have been very profitable. Debt moratoria, rate of interest funds for that debt specifically are absolutely suitable with regulatory and accounting flexibility, he mentioned.
“So, we have been very keen on measures that were used in building flexibility to stretch out what banks could do and what other lenders could do in order to support the borrowers to get them through the pandemic so that they can resume interest payments and principal payments once the crisis is over,” he mentioned.
