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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Bank of India said the Reserve Bank of India has placed it under the ‘Prompt Corrective Action’ framework, a set of restrictions aimed at preventing further deterioration in the health of a bank. It said the action followed an onsite inspection by the RBI. “This is in view of high net NPA, insufficient CET1 capital […]
Not a single employee was laid off or removed as part of the merger of five associate banks with State Bank of India, the government said, adding that the bank had no plans to offer VRS options to its employees. “SBI has informed that no employee has been removed after merger and no application was […]
A senior State Bank of India official warned against assuming that the bad loan malaise affecting the Indian banking sector has started declining. Praveen Kumar Gupta, MD in charge of retail and digital banking, said one cannot directly draw conclusions by extrapolating trends seen in the first two quarters of the current financial year. In […]
Reliance Communications, the embattled telecom service provider from the Anil Ambani stable, said a majority of its lenders opposed the move by China Development Bank to move ahead with insolvency proceedings on the company. “At a Committee of Financial Creditors Meeting on 29 November 2017, a majority of Reliance Communications’ lenders, foreign and Indian, aggregating […]
Stock exchanges in India have sought a clarification from India’s largest telecom company by revenue, Bharti Airtel, on a report that it was under investigation by a government agency for allegedly misusing customer data to open bank accounts in their names. “(The) exchange has advised the company to provide clarification/confirmation on the news item in […]
Infosys said it launched Finacle Trade Connect, a network-based system of distributed record keeping for banks based on the block chain technology. A blockchain-based record is open to all participants and all participants have a copy of all the data. Moreover, all transactions are recorded on a real-time basis on every copy of data. In […]
IDBI Bank said Net Interest Income for September quarter improved by 3.63% compared to previous year and 18.19% compared to the June quarter. Net Interest Margin (NIM) stood at 2.17% for QE Sept 2017 showing improvement of 27 basis points as compared to QE Sept 2016 and 45 basis points as compared to the preceding […]
AU Small Finance Bank and Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) entered into an agreement to jointly lend to small businesses. Both will earmark a corpus of Rs 100 crore for lending under the ‘AU SIDBI Joint Financing Programme’ for FY18. The program will target micro, small and medium sized enterprises in the manufacturing […]
Cloud-based enterprise software provider Ramco Systems said it won a multi-million dollar order from a big British MNC financial group to provide managed payroll services. Ramco will help the company, part of the FTSE 100 index, to consolidate its payroll operations in 14 countries on a unified platform. It will cover 8500+ employees across Asia […]
Wallet app provider MobiKwik announced a tie-up with IndusInd under which it has launched an app exclusively for the bank’s 10 mln customers. The move is in line with the app company’s strategy to be a partner and solutions provider to traditional financial services companies such as banks, instead of recreating the whole banking infrastructure […]
Karnataka Bank’s second quarter net profit fell to Rs 93.38 crores from 123.82 crores last year. However the operating profit showed a robust growth of 57.35% and improved to Rs 366.24 cr from Rs 232.75 cr. The Net Interest Income rose to 440 cr from 397 cr last year. Gross non-performing assets stood at 1,715.70 […]
Bharti Airtel Limited, India’s largest telecommunications services provider and Tata, India’s leading conglomerate, today announced that they have entered into an understanding to merge Consumer Mobile Businesses (CMB) of TTSL and TTML into Bharti Airtel. The move is likely to give Airtel access to sub-GHz spectrum for expanding its 4G network, while preventing Tata Teleservices […]
Tata Teleservices Maharashtra, the listed unit of TTSL, said it had not taken any “firm decision” on how to go forward, reacting to a news article in the Business Standard that said the company will shut down this month. Reacting to media reports, the company said it “continues to explore all options in respect of […]
