Jayanthi, Muthumeenakshi
Export finance plays a crucial role in enabling exporters in accepting and efficiently executing their export orders. Export credit is required for short periods of time both before and after the dispatch/shipment of an order. While the pre-shipment export finance is required as working capital for accomplishing timely production, packing and shipment of the orders, the post-shipment finance facilitates in sustaining exporters business operations while still waiting to receive payments due from foreign buyers. Commercial banking institutions have been important sources of export credit in India. The Reserve Bank of India regulates provision of export credit by the commercial banks in India, both Indian and foreign, through stipulating some minimum proportion of their total lending to be provided as export finance. From time to time, the RBI announces various rule and guidelines to ensure smooth and efficient operation of this system. The researcher had chosen selected banks in commercial banks. The Multi stage sampling method had been chosen for the study. The tools used for the analysis is Percentage Analysis, ANNOVA & Correlation. Therefore, the present study is an attempt to study the bankers perception towards export finance on leather industry provided by selected commercial banks.