The retail finance market in India has regained its lost sheen as loan disbursements during this area is probably to work out a twenty nine per cent annual growth and is anticipated to bit a whopping Rs 4.a pair of lakh crore by 2011-12.
"The large untapped demand, plus the rebound in profitability for financiers, is predicted to spur a boom in retail finance in the coming years," Infrastructure lending major IDFC said in an exceedingly research report.
Not too way in the past, regulatory forbearance and a cyclical downturn in the economy had taken the sheen off the lucrative retail finance industry. Pursuant to that, the market grew by a meagre 8 per cent over FY08-ten against around 50 per cent CAGR over FY05-08.
The growth in the retail finance disbursement would be largely driven by improving affordability, increasing propensity to consume and the very fact that the penetration level of retail finance loans continues to be low.
"We expect annual disbursements in the section to accelerate to twenty nine per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over FY10-twelve to a whopping Rs 4.two lakh crore in FY12."
India, home to at least one of the globe's youngest population (480 million individuals underneath the age of forty years), offers a good ground for proliferation of retail finance. On the back of improving income demographics and thereby higher affordability, penetration of retail assets was on the rise.
The report more highlighted the actual fact that the higher income bracket within the country is growing faster. The number of households within the lowest income bracket has fallen in absolute terms from 41 million to 31 million.
Besides, the proportion of house holds with annual income below Rs 10 million falling to thirty six per cent from 46 per cent over FY10-15, the report added.
"Burgeoning middle income households ideal market for retail loans, at a time when asset prices are stable and affordability is rising," it said.
There are as several as 480 million Indians (or 41 per cent of population) in age group of 15-forty years with high material aspirations, on the back of skyrocketing urbanisation. Besides, India contains a high proportion of young individuals who don't seem to be cautious of borrowing.
There's ample scope to expand as auto penetration remains low, as also the two-wheeler penetration. In mortgages there's ample scope to grow, besides mastercard penetration conjointly lags, the report added.
"The large untapped demand, plus the rebound in profitability for financiers, is predicted to spur a boom in retail finance in the coming years," Infrastructure lending major IDFC said in an exceedingly research report.
Not too way in the past, regulatory forbearance and a cyclical downturn in the economy had taken the sheen off the lucrative retail finance industry. Pursuant to that, the market grew by a meagre 8 per cent over FY08-ten against around 50 per cent CAGR over FY05-08.
The growth in the retail finance disbursement would be largely driven by improving affordability, increasing propensity to consume and the very fact that the penetration level of retail finance loans continues to be low.
"We expect annual disbursements in the section to accelerate to twenty nine per cent compound annual growth rate (CAGR) over FY10-twelve to a whopping Rs 4.two lakh crore in FY12."
India, home to at least one of the globe's youngest population (480 million individuals underneath the age of forty years), offers a good ground for proliferation of retail finance. On the back of improving income demographics and thereby higher affordability, penetration of retail assets was on the rise.
The report more highlighted the actual fact that the higher income bracket within the country is growing faster. The number of households within the lowest income bracket has fallen in absolute terms from 41 million to 31 million.
Besides, the proportion of house holds with annual income below Rs 10 million falling to thirty six per cent from 46 per cent over FY10-15, the report added.
"Burgeoning middle income households ideal market for retail loans, at a time when asset prices are stable and affordability is rising," it said.
There are as several as 480 million Indians (or 41 per cent of population) in age group of 15-forty years with high material aspirations, on the back of skyrocketing urbanisation. Besides, India contains a high proportion of young individuals who don't seem to be cautious of borrowing.
There's ample scope to expand as auto penetration remains low, as also the two-wheeler penetration. In mortgages there's ample scope to grow, besides mastercard penetration conjointly lags, the report added.
SHARE
