China property crisis has Xi Jinping on alert

While the sector represents only about five per cent of China’s financial system, its links with property developers and developments – and the developers’ importance to local governments’ revenues – create a worrisome, self-fuelling and destructive loop for policymakers in Beijing. The downturn in the property sector that is now continuing to spread like a…

Lenders bank on SC and RBI’s direction to justify JAL’s admission into insolvency

Jaiprakash Associates Limited’s (JAL) lenders Tuesday informed the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) that the Supreme Court and Reserve Bank had directed the initiation of the insolvency resolution process against the company. Further, the lenders argued that JAL had a debt and committed default, which warrants its resolution under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code,…