Lack of Experience Entrepreneurs of first generation with lack of experience, has been revealed as the foremost reasons of poor SME credit, followed by lack of collaterals & infrastructure put together 26% and poor financials of SMEs by 24% respectively.

1. Challenges in MSME
Financing
Part 4
Empowering MSMEs Role of Banks & Financial
Institutions, IT, Skill Development & Rating Agencies

2. Role of Banks
Although banks have a higher risk perception of the MSME sector, they
continue to be the key players in formal financing. The higher share of bank
supply can be attributed primarily to Priority Sector Lending (PSL). PSL
guidelines require banks to allocate sizeable share of their credit portfolio to
micro and small enterprises. The existing PSL guidelines have set targets (i.e.
share of credit portfolio) for micro and small enterprises financing. The Nair
Committee Report (February 2012) on Priority Sector Lending (February 2012
has recommended that all domestic and foreign banks allocate 7 percent of
their credit portfolio solely for financing micro enterprises.

3. Challenges in MSME Financing
Lack of Experience Entrepreneurs of first generation with lack of experience,
has been revealed as the foremost reasons of poor SME credit, followed by
lack of collaterals & infrastructure put together 26% and poor financials of
SMEs by 24% respectively.
Poor Financial of Enterprise Majority of bankers don’t prefer SMEs for want of
proper books of account and infusion of own contribution into business by
promoters. This peculiarity, probably has been observed in SMEs because
most of them are first generation entrepreneurs who fail to bring their own
contribution and also don’t know how to record their business transactions in
their books.

4. Challenges in MSME Financing
Lack of Collateral Lack of Collateral: Lenders request for collateral to mitigate
risks. Now the lack of collateral is the most widely mentioned obstacle faced by
MSMEs is accessing finance. I some cases, the enterprise is not able to provide
sufficient collateral either because it is not firmly established or it is insufficient
in view of the size of the loan requested.
Institutional Factors & others Low technology innovations and inadequate
product branding/marketing tie-up are observed important non-financial factors
of default. Also transaction cost is very high and the handling of MSME financing
is an expensive business. The cost of appraising a loan application or of
conducting a due diligence varies as per the size of financing.

5. Enabling Environment for Growth
of Finance to the MSME Sector
The three main pillars of the enabling environment that the study has
analyzed are: (a) legal and regulatory framework (b) government support (c)
financial infrastructure support

6. Legal and Regulatory Framework
Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise Development Act, 2006 :
The Micro, Small, Medium Enterprise Development Act, 2006 (MSMED Act)
defines the micro, small and medium enterprise segments, and promotes
focused and coordinated development of policy for the sector.
The MSMED Act led to the setting up of policymaking and monitoring
bodies – the National Board for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises and
MSME Advisory Committee – which facilitate coordination and inter-
institutional linkages among various government departments related to the
MSME sector.
To ensure that the proposed development schemes such as scheme for
capacity building, financial assistance for bar-code etc. receive adequate
financing, the MSMED Act proposes setting up of dedicated government
funds.

7. Legal and Regulatory Framework
The MSMED Act also has provisions to address the endemic problems of
delayed payments to MSMEs by large enterprises. Section 15 specifies that
buyers make payments to the MSMEs on mutually agreed dates, and in case
dates are not specified, the debtor is required to pay within 45 days. Section
16 elaborates the penalty in case of delayed payments i.e. buyers are liable to
pay compound interest to the MSME on the payment amount that is three
times the bank rate specified by the RBI (interest is to be paid from the day
immediately after the mutually-agreed date.)

8. Legal and Regulatory Framework
Gaps and Challenges in the MSMED Act:
The definition of MSME in the MSMED Act provides no information on
financial maturity or scale of MSMEs. Financial institutions therefore find it
difficult to target units on the basis of this definition and prefer to use size of
annual sales as a metric to identify MSMEs. These definitions tend to vary
across financial institutions.
Due to inconsistency in the definition of MSME across financial institutions
and government, the data on the MSME sector collected and collated by the
government agencies does not always help in segmenting enterprises and
providing targeted services and products.
While the MSMED Act attempts to address the issue of delayed payments
through specific provisions, strict enforcement of these provisions is often not
observed in the sector.

9. Legal and Regulatory Framework
Credit Information Companies (Regulation) Act 2005
The government has enacted the Credit Information Companies (Regulation)
Act 2005 (CIC Act) to facilitate the formation of credit bureaus and strengthen
the finance information infrastructure.
The CIC Act led to the formation of four credit bureaus in the country.
Experiences in developed countries suggest that access to credit information
on historic conduct of the enterprises tends to reduce the information
asymmetry and increases the flow of formal finance.
The Act regulates the information that credit bureaus can collect and
process, however it also provides RBI the flexibility to expand the type of
information captured.

10. Legal and Regulatory Framework
Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of
Security Interest Act, 2002:
The SARFAESI Act is a legal framework that protects creditor rights and
facilitates recovery of non- performing assets without the intervention of the
judicial system. The Act is applicable to all loan assets created by a
commercial bank, and broadly provides three alternative methods of
recovering non-performing assets, namely,
(a) securitization (b) asset reconstruction and (c) enforcement of security.

11. Legal and Regulatory Framework
As the MSME sector is considered to be relatively riskier, limited credit
protection can severely impede supply of finance to the sector; the SARFAESI
Act provides a framework to financial institutions to recover non-performing
assets, reducing the risk of non-recovery of dues.
The Act also provides guidance on formation of Asset Reconstruction
Companies (ARCs) to provide support to commercial banks in managing the
sale of non-performing assets. SIDBI along with other leading commercial
banks has set up the India SME Asset Reconstruction Company Limited
(ISARC) to manage non-performing MSME assets of commercial banks.
Many commercial banks have also instituted One-Time-Settlement (OTS)
mechanisms that allow banks to settle transactions with non-performing
assets without going into a long- drawn process as prescribed in the SARFAESI
Act.

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