BFSI Series: Early Trends in the Corporate Loans

Investec India hosted Mr Somasekhar Vemuri, Senior Director - CRISIL Ratings to discuss the early trends in Corporate Loans amid the COVID19 crisis and the lockdown in the country. He presented his view on potential rating changes that the banking system will need to handle over the next 2 years. The discussions were around likely stress build up in corporate portfolios, portfolio composition by rating coverage, and probability of defaults for various rated pools. He also addressed the likely increase to Sub-Investment grade exposures for the banking system.