Fall in gold prices to trigger demand for more collateral
Gold loan customers forced to reset or renew their loans at the new LTV
Shrikant Jadhav, promoter of a small manufacturing units at the outskirts of Mumbai, was surprised when he got a call from the bank to top up his gold loan with additional collateral or pay few instalments in advance.
Jadhav is among many businessmen who are now reworking their gold loan exposure with banks and NBFCs which marketed gold loan as panacea of all liquidity-problems till late last year.
The consistent rally in gold prices while the Covid pandemic was at its peak last year made banks and NBFCs to push gold loan to liquidity starved industries. Moved by the safe-haven factor, the RBI in August increased the LTV (loan-to-value) ratio on gold loans to 90 per cent from 75 per cent.
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Danaos Corporation Announces Consummation of Debt Refinancing
Danaos Corporation (the Company ) (NYSE: DAC) announced today the consummation of its previously announced $1.25 billion refinancing of a substantial majority of its outstanding senior secured indebtedness. On April 12, 2021, the Company refinanced all of the outstanding indebtedness, which aggregated $1.3 billion as of December 31, 2020, under nine of the Company s senior secured credit facilities, with the proceeds from a $815 million senior secured credit facility with Citibank N.A. and National Westminster Bank plc who have been lenders to the Company for more than 30 years, a $135 million sale leaseback agreement with Oriental Fleet International Company Limited, an affiliate of COSCO Shipping Lease Co., Ltd., with respect to five vessels, and the net proceeds of the Company s February 2021 offering of $300 million of 8.500% Senior Secured Notes due 2028.
Series: 1944-2021, 77 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 28)
The World Bank did not Foresee the Arab Spring Popular Uprisings and still Promotes the very same Policies that triggered them 12 April by
In 2021, the World Bank (WB) and the IMF will reach the age of 77. These two international financial institutions (IFIs), created in 1944, are dominated by the United States and a few major allied powers that act to generalize policies contrary to the interests of the people.
The WB and the IMF have systematically lent to states in order to influence their policies. External debt has been and still is used as an instrument of subordination of debtors. Since their creation, the IMF and WB have violated international covenants on human rights and do not hesitate to support dictatorships.