..............RBI said the lending activity of insurance companies, mainly life insurance ones, while not very large in comparison to total banking sector lending, is nevertheless significant. The amount was Rs 88,870 crore as at end-March, less than five per cent of the assets under management of insurance companies. A significant portion of these are secured against the surrender values of life insurance policies. “While the risk management framework and exposure limits (single issuer, group, and industry) are in place for insurance companies, there is a need to plug the possibility of any regulatory arbitrage by closely aligning the practices and regulations applicable to lending by insurance companies with those by banks,” said RBI in its report...........
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