RBI has allowed the non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) to advance loans up to 75% of the value of gold jewelery used as collateral
The central bank (RBI) released a notification titled "Lending Against Security of Single Product - Gold Jewelery" stating that the loan-to-value (LTV) ratio for the NBFCs has been raised to 75% of the value of gold pledged as loan from the earlier 60% with immediate effect.
The lending limit has been hiked on par with the recommendations by the KUB Rao Working Group formed by the RBI in 2012. It has suggested extension of limit to facilitate monetization of idle gold.
Only the intrinsic value of the gold will be taken into account while calculating the loan amount and no other costs such as making charges will be added to it, RBI said.
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