Liquidity Risks in Non-Banking Financial Companies: An Analysis

The purpose of the paper is to compare the liquidity profile of banks with NBFCs to examine how NBFCs perform under stringent RBI and BCBS guidelines although the business model of both are not fully identical. Three NBFC-D and three NBFC-ND-SI have been selected based on their income size in descending order. The maturity pattern of assets and liabilities indicate that all sample NBFCs reveals a positive gap and healthy gap ratio up to 1 month time bucket. The liquidity coverage ratio specifies that the stock of liquid assets are not required to service liabilities since cash inflows up to one month are more than outflows for all NBFCs. While comparing liquidity profile with commercial banks it is observed that on all the measures except Loan To Deposit ratio, NBFCs performed better despite their limited stock of public deposits. The results might change in the current year i.e. after ILF&S collapses. This paper is believed to be the first attempt discussing on liquidity risk of NBFCs.