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Airpay Payment Services on Tuesday said it has secured approval from the Reserve Bank of India to operate as a cross-border payment aggregator, completing its authorisations under the unified payment aggregator (PA) framework. With this, the company is licensed to operate as a payment aggregator across online, physical and cross-border categories, a company statement said. The milestone positions airpay as a homegrown full-stack payments infrastructure provider for Indian enterprises, D2C brands and SMEs for both domestic and global markets, it added. The company expects the launch to accelerate scale, projecting a 3040 per cent rise in processing volumes over the next 6-12 months and anticipating 20 per cent-plus revenue contribution from cross-border flows alongside onboarding over 50,000 merchants in the same period. "Indian business growth is no longer domestic-only. Our exporters, SaaS firms, digital merchants and local retailers are all engaging globally, and they need ...

As deposit growth lags credit expansion, Indian banks face shrinking low-cost Casa inflows, rising funding costs, and structural shifts driven by UPI, e-Kuber, and digital savings trends

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The country's biggest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), plans to hire around 3,500 officers to bolster its operations and enhance service delivery nationwide. The bank has recruited 505 Probationary Officers (POs) in June, and the process to fill a similar number of vacancies is on... applications have been received, SBI Deputy Managing Director (HR) & Chief Development Officer (CDO) Kishore Kumar Poludasu told PTI in an interview. As regards specialist officers, he said, around 1,300 odd officers have already been selected to look after the IT and cybersecurity space. The advertisement for 541 PO vacancies is out. Applications have already been received. The recruitment for POs is through a three-stage process: preliminaries, mains, and a psychometric test and interviews. Additionally, he said, "around 3,000 circle-based officers are now being considered. This should get concluded in the current financial year." Earlier this year, SBI Chairman C S Setty announced that the bank's

The forward-looking ECL-based allowance (or provision) is applied at origination and for all subsequent reporting periods to financial assets till derecognition

Public sector banks increase SDL allocation to 40-50% of HQLA portfolios, drawn by higher yields and widening spreads over central government bonds

Private sector lenders lost market cap in July-September 2025, dragged by trade tensions and tariff shocks, while PSU banks recorded double-digit gains

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India Ratings has cut WAPCOS's bank loan rating from A- to BBB citing a stretched working capital cycle, reliance on debt and audit concerns, even as its order book remains strong

Bankers said the increase in market share in the last 18 months is the outcome of a combination of factors like changes in macro environment

Initiative should not only be seen as a financial project but a way to build citizens' trust in the banking system

State-owned Punjab & Sind Bank has said CARE Ratings has upgraded ratings on tier-II bonds by a notch, citing improvement in profitability and decline in bad loans. The rating has been upgraded from CARE AA- with Positive outlook to CARE AA with Stable outlook, the bank has said in a regulatory filing. The bank has secured rating upgrades for tier II bonds worth Rs 1,237 crore. The rating revision to the debt instruments of Punjab and Sind Bank (PSB) considers the improvement in profitability in FY25 and better asset quality aided by recoveries and lower incremental slippages, CARE Ratings said in a statement. The rating continues to favourably factor in majority ownership of and demonstrated support from Government of India (GoI), comfortable capitalisation levels supported by multiple equity infusions and accretion of profits, and established presence in northern states of India, it said. PSB is expected to sustain growth in business while maintaining adequate capitalisation and

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) introduced "FEAT" (fairness, ethics, accountability, and transparency) principles in 2018

Senior State Bank of India executive said the slight tweak (hike) in rates for home loans was on account of reduction in business discount. Risk premium remains the same

A senior SBI executive said the bank has approval from the board of directors to raise up to Rs 20,000 crore through debt capital in Fy26.

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ICICI Bank's decision to raise the minimum monthly average balance (MAB) for new savings accounts to ₹50,000 in metro and urban areas has drawn significant backlash on social media, with users citing

Anand will be expected to scale the differentiated franchise of the bank, with a strong ethical foundation, Mehta added

The developments at IndusInd Bank have led RBI's senior supervisory managers (SSMs) to take a closer look at bank boards, including the agenda presented, the time spent discussing specific items