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Multiple customers having Axis Bank credit cards have been impacted by fraudulent overseas transactions, a senior official from the third largest private sector lender said on Thursday. Sanjeev Moghe, head of cards and payments at the city-based lender, said starting Tuesday evening, customers witnessed unauthorised transactions where they received transaction alerts on certain low-value purchases being carried out at some e-commerce sites. There has been "no data breach" at the bank's end, Moghe said, asserting that the scale of such transactions is very limited and customers' data is safe and secure. Amid growing social media chatter about such unauthorised transactions going through, Moghe said the bank's internal mechanisms stopped some transactions but added that many customers have been impacted. The bank witnessed spends of about Rs 500 crore per day by its credit card customers, Moghe said, adding that when compared with it, the extent of such transactions has been "very ..
Shares of Axis Bank rallied over 9 per cent on Friday after the firm reported a 66.29 per cent jump in consolidated net profit for the September quarter. The stock jumped 8.96 per cent to settle at Rs 900.25 apiece on the BSE. During the day, it advanced 9.53 to its 52-week high of Rs 905. On the NSE, it rallied 9.46 per cent to end at Rs 904 apiece. Its market capitalisation (mcap) also jumped Rs 22,757.86 crore to Rs 2,76,592.86 crore. The stock emerged as the biggest gainer on both Sensex and Nifty. In volume terms, 19.64 lakh shares of the firm were traded on the BSE and 5.80 crore shares on the NSE during the day. The 30-share BSE benchmark climbed 104.25 points or 0.18 per cent to settle at 59,307.15. On Thursday, Axis Bank reported a 66.29 per cent jump in consolidated net profit for September quarter at Rs 5,625.25 crore, driven by a substantial decrease in bad loan provisions and margin expansion. On a standalone basis, the third largest private sector lender reported