MUMBAI: The Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) special liquidity facility of ₹50,000 crore for mutual funds is at least a week late and comes only after Franklin Templeton India decided to shutter its six debt schemes.
The benefit of the liquidity window is unlikely to be available to these six schemes, considering that redemptions in these schemes were stopped on 23 April.
However, Franklin can still access the window for its other schemes, like all the other fund houses. What needs to be seen is whether banks view the closure of the six schemes as a temporary blip and are willing to lend fresh money to the fund house on the strength of its asset under management. "The 6 Franklin schemes have stopped redemptions, so they may not use this