The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has finalized guidelines easing risk-weight norms for non-bank financial companies (NBFCs) in infrastructure financing. The RBI has lowered repayment thresholds for lower risk weights on high-quality infrastructure projects, allowing a 75 risk weight after 2 repayments and a 50 risk weight after 5 repayments of the original debt. While some stakeholders advocated for removing repayment criteria, the RBI maintained them as crucial for demonstrating reduced project risk. The definition of high-quality infrastructure projects has also been partially expanded.