<h1>Central bank allows banks to expand corporate acquisition financing, raises share and IPO loan limits, removes borrower caps</h1> The central bank announced a regulatory shift permitting domestic banks to finance acquisitions by Indian corporates, expanding capital-market lending. It proposes removing the ceiling on lending against listed debt securities, raising banks' lending limits against shares from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 1 crore and IPO financing from Rs 10 lakh to Rs 25 lakh per person, and withdrawing a 2016 framework that discouraged lending to very large borrowers. Systemic concentration risks will be addressed through macroprudential tools rather than borrower-based limits. The bank also plans lower risk weights for NBFC lending to high-quality infrastructure and will publish a discussion paper on licensing new urban co-operative banks.