The RBI has sought strategies on draft tips on Co-lending Preparations Instructions, 2025 issued in April, stated officers conscious of the developments.
Below the proposed draft tips, the RBI has advised limiting the co-lending mannequin to the place each a financial institution and NBFC collectively originate and disburse loans.
Below the present co-lending mannequin (CLM-2), NBFCs originate loans from their books and later assign a part of the mortgage to the financial institution. This helps NBFCs preserve liquidity and velocity up the method. The RBI now desires to shift to CLM-1, the place each financial institution and NBFC disburse mortgage collectively from the outset.
“We wish each fashions to exist and the choice needs to be left to particular person banks and different regulated entities,” stated a financial institution govt on strategies made final month by way of the Indian Banks’ Affiliation.

An e mail despatched to the RBI didn’t elicit a response till press time.”Every single mortgage below the association shall be shared among the many funding regulated entities proper from the time of first disbursement. This shall be achieved on the premise of a non-discretionary ex ante Inter Creditor Settlement with joint nature of rights,” the RBI famous in its draft tips.
Lenders have reasoned that at current round 80% of co-lending is completed by way of CLM-2, which provides the banks a selection to choose mortgage portfolios they wish to fund.
Based on a report by CareEdge Rankings, every mortgage below the association will probably be shared among the many funding REs proper from the primary disbursement.
“Transactions presently being carried out below the CLM-2 mannequin are anticipated to shift to the direct project (DA) mannequin,” it stated.