Banks must turn towards global trade-finance instruments - RBI
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This, however, may push up costs, the paper added. Domestic banks largely depend on their own branches or branches/subsidiaries of other domestic banks, which have been accepting non-standardised trade instruments – LoUs and LoCs – for arranging trade credit.
“The overdependence of domestic banks on their overseas branches through less standardised trade credit instruments limits the scope of their trade credit operations,” said Rajeev Jain, Dhirendra Gajbhiye and Soumasree Tewari from the RBI’s Department of Economic Policy and Research.
Incidentally, the drying up of trade credit disbursed through domestic banks in the aftermath of prohibition of LoUs/LoCs by the Reserve Bank of India in March 2018, confirms that their narrow overseas network base is a binding constraint for trade credit business, they added.
The paper observed that both demand and supply-side dynamics influence the flow of cross-border trade credit to India.
“The fall in trade finance intensity in recent years is clearly an indication of supply-side constraints. In particular, the financial health and size of overseas network of banks operating in India matter for trade credit,” the authors said.
Empirical evidence suggests that the positive impact of import volumes on trade credit flows makes short-term external debt one of the critical variables to be monitored for external sector vulnerability. This is especially pertinent when import payments are driven by higher international commodity prices, they elaborated.
As tight global financial conditions are found to impede trade credit flows, the authors felt that policy efforts towards strengthening banks’ overseas business network may make these flows more resilient. #casansaar (Source - The Hindu)
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