Yes Bank, one of India’s youngest banks, said it will raise $600 mln by issuing five-year notes with a coupon rate of 3.75% per year. The bonds will be listed on the Singapore Exchange Securities Trading, International Securities Market of The London Stock Exchange and India International Exchange IFSC. The instruments will be issued on […]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has removed the tax exemption given to long-term gains derived from the sale of equity shares, and instead imposed a 10% tax on long-term gains from the sale of equity shares. This is what he said in his budget speech on this issue: “The total amount of exempted capital gains from […]
The following are the important highlights of the budget speech by finance minister Arun Jaitley for the year 2018-19. UPDATE: To read what Jaitley said about the imposition of tax on equity transactions, click here. To read his full speech, click here. The following are the major announcements of the Budget 2018-19. EQUITY MARKETS Long-term […]
Public sector banks would need to divert an estimated Rs 63,000 cr, or about 41% of the total money that the government has promised, to meet increased provisioning requirements for loans under the new Ind-AS accounting standard, India Ratings said, adding that this would ‘knock down’ their growth aspirations and hurt market share. Provisioning refers […]
Shriram Transport Finance Company said it has decided to sell a majority stake in its vehicle auction company Shriram Automall to Cartrade.com to create what it called India’s leading used vehicle platform. CarTrade, owned by MXC Solutions India, will acquire majority stake in Shriram Automall India Limited (SAMIL), India’s offline auction platform for pre-owned vehicles […]
Reliance Capital, the financial services arm of the Anil Ambani Group, said its insurance unit, Reliance Nippon Life Insurance, signed up state-owned Bank of Maharashtra as a corporate agency to distribute its products. The Anil Ambani Group company said partnership further will increase distribution fee revneue for the bank. “Bank of Maharashtra with its extensive […]
Every few months, there is a new rumor surrounding Reliance Jio, the 4G operator that has taken the country by storm. A year ago, it was Jio DTH, which was supposed to put other DTH operators out of business, and now, it’s Jiocoin, which is supposed to put virtual currencies like Bitcoin on notice. According […]
Tata Consultancy Services said it will take over the policy administration and customer service functions of US insurer Transamerica along with 2,200 of its employees in a $2 bln-plus, multi-year deal. The Indian company will migrate the administration of over 10 mln insurance policies on to its BaNCS platform and provide ‘third party administration’ or […]
Several foreign banks, including the Bank of China, have sought RBI’s permission to set up operations in the country. Among those who have applied for permission to open a branch or office in the country are three banks from Iran, two from South Korea, one each from Malaysia and Netherlands. Bank of China is one […]
State Bank of Mauritius has become the first foreign entity to receive a license to start a bank in India. The bank, along with DBS of Singapore, had received preliminary approval several months ago. It has now received the final banking license on Dec 6, banking sources confirmed. Mauritius, despite being a tiny Island nation […]
The Securities & Exchange Board of India has tapped Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay to submit a report on the various options to regulate algorithm trading in India. The appointment of IIT Bombay to help with the matter comes in the context of the SEBI’s ongoing consultation with industry and other stakeholders for framing rules […]
Bitcoin users and investors in India could be in for tough times ahead as a high-level, interdepartmental committee set up by the government of India has urged it to crack down on such virtual currencies. The contents of the committee’s report, submitted in August, have not been officially announced yet, but highly placed sources reveal […]
Satin Creditcare Network Ltd, one of India’s largest microfinance companies, said it has received an investment of Rs 80 cr from US-based hedgefund Kora Management. Kora’s investment is part of the latest funding of Rs 205 that the company raised from institutional investors that also included the promoters of IndusInd Bank and NMI, an existing […]
Indusind Bank, part of the Hinduja group, said it has raised $500 mln (about Rs 3,300 cr) by way of syndicated term loans from a group of overseas lenders. The tenor of the facility is 3 years and will be used for general banking purposes, it said. “This fund-raising, along with the funds raised during […]
The number of frauds related to Internet banking and credit and debit cards in India has increased four fold in the last one year, according to data reported by the banks to the Reserve Bank of India. Banks have already reported 10,220 incidents under the RBI’s Fraud Monitoring System involving an amount of Rs 111.86 […]
Bank of Baroda said it will buy out its foreign partner Pioneer Investments in its asset management subsidiary to raise its stake in the unit to 100%. It will acquire 51% of Baroda Pioneer Asset Management Company for an undisclosed amount. This is being done due to the acquisition of Pioneer Investments by Amundi, which […]
The problem of high debt levels faced by some telecom companies in India was of their own making and the government had a limited to role to play in resolving the same, the inter-ministerial group set up to address the concerns of telecom sector found. The cash flow issues faced by the companies is related […]
The Reserve Bank of India has released the list of Indian banks and their non-performing assets as of September 30, 2017, the latest period for which financial data is available. The total non-peforming assets, or bad loans, has risen to 8.37 lakh cr — a burden of around 20,000 for each working person in the […]
The pace of bad industrial debt written off by public sector banks in India increased substantially this year, according to RBI data. In the first six months of the financial year (April to September), public sector banks wrote off 36,510 cr of bad industrial debt, compared to only 2,369 cr of agricultural debt. If the […]
The total amount raised via initial public offering of equity shares in the first eight months of the current financial year is more than the total proceeds raised in the previous five years, according to SEBI data. A total of Rs 62,736 crore has been raised in April-November period, higher than the Rs 62,147 raised […]
