MONEY & BANKING


The State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest lender, has raised Rs 3,717 crore through its third Basel III compliant Additional Tier 1 bond issuance in the current financial year on Wednesday, at a coupon rate of 8.25 per cent.   The proceeds of the bonds will be utilised in...

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After dilly-dallying for over two years, the IDBI Bank Ltd. has finally declared the DHFL promoters and siblings -- Kapil Wadhawan and Dheeraj Wadhawan -- as 'wilful defaulters' in a Rs 758 crore unpaid loans case.   The IDBI move came on February 27 against the Wadhawan brothers who...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 February 2023
A sustained improvement in the financial performance of Indian banks bodes well for the sector's intrinsic risk profiles, says Fitch Ratings. The pace of asset quality and profitability improvement has exceeded Fitch's expectations, while capital buffers are broadly in line with the agency's...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 February 2023
Citizens from India and Singapore can now send money across the two countries using a unified payments interface (UPI) and PayNow. Funds held in bank accounts or e-wallets can be transferred to or from India using the UPI-ID mobile number or virtual payment address (VPA). Singapore is the...

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IANS 21 February 2023
Mergers of banks in India has resulted in increased efficiency for the acquirers or the merged entity and higher shareholders wealth for the acquiree banks, as per a research paper published by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).   "The expected benefits of mergers and acquisitions...

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Moneylife Digital Team 16 February 2023
COVID-19 has extracted a heavy toll on non-banking finance companies (NBFCs)-microfinance institutions (MFIs); however, according to India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra), most of the impact has been absorbed till the first nine months (9M) of FY22-23. The agency expects the growth momentum to...

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Moneylife Digital Team 13 February 2023
Nearly 40% of the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) of scheduled commercial banks (SCBs)  pertain to the top-312 defaulting borrowers and, during the past five years, these banks have recovered about Rs6.60 lakh crore from NPA accounts, the Union government informed the Lok...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2023
All scheduled commercial banks (SCBs) wrote off Rs10.09 lakh crore during the past five financial years, from FY17-18 to FY21-22, while during the same period, the Union government has infused Rs2.76 lakh crore to recapitalise public sector banks (PSBs), the Lok Sabha was...

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Moneylife Digital Team 06 February 2023
Indian banks' net interest margin (NIM) will face pressure in the financial year ending March 2024 (FY23-24) as they increase deposit rates to attract funds to support sustained high loan growth, says Fitch Ratings.   In a report, the rating agency says, "We expect the Indian banking...

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Moneylife Digital Team 01 February 2023
While presenting the Budget 2023, finance minister (FM) Nirmala Sitharaman proposed to increase tax collected at source (TCS) on certain foreign remittances and the sale of overseas tour packages. There is no change in the tax for education or medical purpose.    Section 206C of the...

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IANS 30 January 2023
Karnataka police have arrested a relationship manager of IDBI Bank in Bengaluru in connection with transferring Rs4.92 crore illegally to various accounts, police said on Monday.   According to police, 34-year-old Sajila, a relationship manager attached to IDBI Bank, Mission Road...

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IANS 28 January 2023
The United Forum of Bank Unions (UFBU) has deferred the two-day nationwide bank strike on January 30-31 following an understanding at the conciliation meeting held in Mumbai, said C.H.Venkatachalam, General Secretary, All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA).   According to...

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IANS 16 January 2023
The Economic Offences Wing (EOW) of Delhi Police has arrested a former assistant vice president of the RBL bank for allegedly transferring Rs 19.80 crore from bank's two accounts to his own accounts in other banks.   The accused, identified as Nagendra Kumar (39), had also resigned...

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In February 2014, some of you may remember how a member of Parliament (MP) sprayed pepper spray on his colleagues right inside the Lok Sabha. He even referred to them as a mob in a television interview (Who is 'pepper spray' Rajagopal?).    This Congress MP, Lagadapati Rajagopal, was...

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Alan Paul Varghese 14 January 2023
Banks across the country have started to follow directions issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on safe deposit lockers. However, due to a lack of standardisation in the process, bank customers are facing difficulties in following the RBI directions issued on 18 August 2021...

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Or, you could say “hip pocket on a lungi”.   Laughing over?  Time to explain.   Simple meaning—don’t put bells and whistles on something with fundamental limitations.   These ‘wise’ sayings came to my mind when I read an article in the Economic Times about how chatbots...

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Moneylife Digital Team 30 December 2022
Religare Finvest Ltd (RFL) and its parent Religare Enterprises Ltd have signed an agreement with its 16 lenders for full and final settlement (one-time settlement -OTS) for all their outstanding dues of RFL. Religare Finvest owes Rs5,344 crore to a consortium of 16 lenders, led by State Bank...

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IANS 30 December 2022
A case of loan fraud amounting to Rs38.46 crore has been lodged against Cox & Kings Ltd, a leisure travel company, and its officials by the central bureau of investigation (CBI) based on a complaint filed by the Indian Bank.   A senior CBI official said that the complaint was lodged...

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IANS 26 December 2022
The Centre Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has learnt in the Chanda Kochhar case that loans which were sanctioned by ICICI Bank to Videocon group companies were adjusted in RTL (rupee term loan) of Rs1,730 crore. In 2012, the existing outstandings of the six accounts of Videocon group companies...

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