Banking Awareness 48: various Types of Non- Banking Financial Companies.

Are you willing to know detailed information about the various Types of Non- Banking Financial Companies? Here is the article which provides you the clean and clear information about the various Types of Non- Banking Financial Companies. These Non- Banking Financial Companies are either Deposit-taking (or) Non-deposit taking. If they are non-deposit taking, then ND is suffixed to their name(NBFC-ND). If this has a benefit size of INR 100 Crore (or) more are known as Systematically Important NBFC. The Non-deposit taking of NBFCs is denoted as NBFC-NDSI. Under these two categories, they are classified into many types, such as:-

Asset Finance CompanyThe main theme of this company is to finance assets such as machines, automobiles, generators, material equipment, industrial machines, etc.
Investment CompanyThe main theme is to deal with securities.
Loan CompanyThe main theme is to make loans and advances.
Infrastructure Debt FundDebt fund is nothing but an investment pool, where the core holdings are fixed-income investments. Infrastructure Debt Funds are to infuse into the infrastructure sector. 
Systematically Important Core Investment CompanyIt has deployed at least 90% of its assets in the form of investment in shares (or) debt instruments(or) loans in group companies is called CIC-ND-SI. 
Infrastructure Finance CompanyIt has net owned funds of at least INR 300 crores, which has deployed 75% of its total assets in infrastructure loans is called as IFC provided and also it has a credit rating of A (or) above and it has a CRAR of 15%
Non-Banking Financial Company-Micro Finance Institutions.it has the least 85% of its assets in the form of microfinance. Such Microfinance should be in the form of a loan which is given to those who have an annual income of INR 60,000 in rural areas and INR 120,000 in Urban areas. 
Non-Banking Financial Company-factorsFactoring business refers to the acquisition of receivables by way of assignment of such receivables or financing, there against either by way of a loan of a security interest over such receivables but does not include normal lending by a bank against the security of receivables, etc.