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Kings of Capital
Kings of Capital Portfolio Newsletter: Quality lenders to benefit from RBI’s credit shakeout

To curb systemic risk posed by the sharp growth in unsecured credit and NBFC credit in the banking system, the RBI raised risk weights on both from 100% to 125%, effectively asking lenders to set aside more equity capital for these credit risks. This move is likely to have highest impact on business models of […]

Kings of Capital

Kings of Capital Portfolio Newsletter: Quality lenders to benefit from RBI’s credit shakeout

To curb systemic risk posed by the sharp growth in unsecured credit and NBFC credit in the banking system, the RBI raised risk weights on both from 100% to 125%, effectively asking lenders to set aside more equity capital for these credit risks. This move is likely to have highest impact on business models of […]


Dec 09 . 8 MIN READ READ MORE
Kings of Capital

Learning from history: Discounting in Financial Services is a bad strategy

History shows that competing only on the basis of price either as a lender or as an insurer has inevitably led to heavy losses and in some cases to bankruptcy. In this newsletter, we discuss how PSU general insurers in their quest to gain market share, cut pricing in group health insurance for 5+ years […]


Sep 07 . 11 MIN READ READ MORE
Kings of Capital

A Simple Approach to Valuing Financial Services Companies

Valuing lenders and insurance companies is tricky as the well accepted principle of discounting future cash flows does not work for Financial Services companies. These companies work under a regulatory framework which requires them to maintain a minimum capitalization level and also reinvest a large part of their earnings. Technically these firms have no/negative free […]


Apr 29 . 10 MIN READ READ MORE
Kings of Capital

What KCP Lenders Can Teach SVB’s Management

Even as the global financial system is reeling from the stress created by the sharp increase in interest rates over the past year, the Indian banking system is well placed to overcome this crisis owing to its granular liability franchisee, well matched asset-liability (ALM) schedules and more calibrated monetary policy conduct by the central bank. […]


Mar 27 . 10 MIN READ READ MORE

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