India’s JSW Steel Ltd said a weaker steel market hit by falling global demand and a local slowdown could impact the turnaround time for its newly acquired Monnet Ispat assets, but its chairman played down any substantial impact on financials, Reuters reported. “It might be a little bit affected,” Sajjan Jindal, co-chair of India’s biggest steel company by local capacity, said in Mumbai on Thursday. “We have always maintained it may take about two years to turn around and I think we will still try to do it within two years,” he said on the sidelines of his company’s annual meeting.

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Chennai Bench, has ordered initiation of insolvency proceedings against L&T Halol - Shamlaji Tollway Ltd (L&T Halol) on a petition filed by Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), which alleged that the company had defaulted in repayment of ₹76.68 crore as on December 27, 2018, The Hindu Business Line reported.

In a significant move, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India (IBBI) has tightened norms governing resolution professionals wherein restrictions will also be in place for their relatives from taking up employment after completion of a resolution process, The Economic Times reported. Insolvency resolution professionals would be barred from having employment when they are in possession of authorisation to take up work under the insolvency law.

A JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit violated India’s foreign investment rules and helped property developer Amrapali Group divert funds from realty projects, the nation’s Supreme Court said in a ruling and ordered an investigation, Bloomberg News reported. The court on Tuesday ordered the federal anti-money laundering agency to investigate Amrapali, based in Noida, near New Delhi, for diverting funds overseas with the help of JPMorgan and others.

India’s Dewan Housing Finance Corp Ltd (DHFL) filed its long-delayed audited results for the quarter ended March 31 late on Monday, and revealed that its auditors had raised several red flags around its numbers, raising fresh concerns about the future of the troubled lender, Reuters reported. DHFL, one of India’s biggest housing finance companies with almost 1 trillion rupees ($14.52 billion) in debt, has been hard hit by a liquidity crunch that has crippled several Indian non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) following last year’s collapse of infrastructure lender IL&FS.

India’s top court temporarily put ArcelorMittal’s $6.1 billion purchase of Essar Steel India Ltd. on hold, after the mill’s lenders sought to annul a lower court ruling that split sale proceeds proportionately among all creditors, Bloomberg News reported. The Supreme Court on Monday admitted financial lenders’ appeal against a bankruptcy court ruling that put secured creditors like banks at par with operational creditors, or suppliers to the plants. It also said it would resolve issues arising from the Essar verdict expeditiously and fix an early date for hearing the case.

State-run Union Bank of India has tagged Suzlon Energy Ltd as a bad loan and more banks are expected to follow suit as the stressed wind turbine maker has struggled to repay its lenders, two people aware of the development said, Mint reported. In the quarter ended 30 June, Union Bank has updated the status of the account as non-performing in the central bank’s Central Repository of Information on Large Credits database, said one of the two people cited above.

McLeod Russel has rejigged its board and top management as it faces a financial crisis that could force the company into insolvency proceedings, Business Standard reported. The Williamson Magor Group (WMG) company has roped in two new independent directors and appointed a new chief financial officer, besides other changes. Rajeev Takru, a wholetime director who is due to retire by rotation, has said he doesn't want to be relected to the boad but wished to continue his engagement with the company in an advisory role.

India’s central bank is seeing “signs of fragility” in some of the 50 mortgage lenders and other shadow banks it is monitoring to prevent the spread of a crisis that followed the collapse of a non-bank lender last year, Bloomberg News reported. “It is our endeavor that there is no contagion,” central bank Governor Shaktikanta Das said in one of his first media interviews on Saturday. "We are constantly in touch with the large lenders.

Credit rating agencies for years assigned high ratings to India’s Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL&FS) and its group companies despite its deteriorating finances, according to a special audit, Reuters reported. Audit firm Grant Thornton was appointed by IL&FS’ new board to conduct the review following the government’s decision to take charge of the group after its defaults on debt obligations sparked fears of financial contagion.