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The finance ministry has directed public sector banks and financial institutions, including insurance companies, to promptly report vigilance-related matters concerning whole-time directors (WTDs) of their respective companies. The directive from the Department of Financial Services (DFS) under the ministry follows several instances where adverse information about board-level appointees was not promptly reported. In many cases, it said, such critical adverse inputs like private complaints, court observations, references or inputs from the CBI or other Law Enforcement Agencies are being reported only at the time when Vigilance Clearance is specifically sought from the Chief Vigilance Officers (CVO) of PSUs. Without citing any specific case, the advisory issued earlier this month, said, in certain cases even the crucial information relating to WTDs is omitted in the Vigilance Clearance formats on the ground that no specific column exists for such disclosure. Observing that omission o
With the pick-up in economic activity, State Bank of India (SBI) is seeing a clear revival in corporate credit demand and expects the segment to hit double-digit growth over the remaining two quarters of the current financial year, the bank's Chairman C S Setty said. As far as the pipeline for corporate credit is concerned, he said, "The bank has a strong pipeline. We have about Rs 7 lakh crore loan sanctions, a mix of unutilised working capital limits and term loans that are currently under disbursement." Besides, includes several project loans that are presently under discussion, he told PTI in an interview. So, the corporate credit, which was lagging for quite some time, witnessed a turnaround with 7.1 per cent growth in Q2, he said, adding, "Our guidance on the corporate credit would be the lower double digit in the two quarters with the available pipeline". Improving economic activity is also pushing up working capital utilisation, which is becoming stronger with each passing