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By default: Coronavirus threatens to derail retail boom for Indian lenders

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Non-repayment of credit card, personal loans has surged in the last few weeks, increasing the troubles of lenders already struggling with soured loans to larger corporates, and potentially slowing down the country's recovery from the crisis MUMBAI : Indian lenders are facing a jump in coronavirus-related defaults on credit card dues, personal and vehicle loans, forcing them to set aside hundreds of millions of dollars and take steps like asking sales staff to track down borrowers who have vanished.

A near two-month nationwide lockdown to halt the spread of COVID-19 has clobbered India's retail financial segment, seen as the last bastion for a banking industry that had already raked up more than $120 billion in bad loans and is ranked the

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