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The government on Wednesday decided to exercise green shoe option to divest a higher 3 per cent stake in Indian Overseas Bank through offer-for-sale following overwhelming response from investors on the first day of subscription. The OFS of Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) opened for subscription on Wednesday for non-retail investors at a floor price of Rs 34 per share. "Offer for Sale in Indian Overseas Bank received good response from non-retail investors today. "Against about 34.66 cr shares on offer, demand was received for more than 41 cr shares. Government has decided to exercise the green shoe option. Retail investors get to bid tomorrow 18th December 2025," Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (DIPAM) Secretary Arunish Chawla said in a post on X. The government proposed to sell up to 38.51 crore (38,51,31,796) shares or 2 per cent base offer size with an option to additionally sell 19.25 crore (19,25,65,898) shares, representing 1 per cent of the total issued and
Public sector Indian Overseas Bank was confident of maintaining its over Rs 1,000 crore net profit in the coming quarters. The city-headquartered bank had registered its first ever highest net profit of Rs 1,051 crore in the January-March 2025 quarter. "Exactly. One hundred per cent sure. We are very confident of maintaining this and growing it from here. If you see our net profits figure over the last two years, quarter on quarter, it is increasing. The graph has been very consistent," the bank's Managing Director and CEO Ajay Kumar Srivastava said. He was responding to a query from PTI on whether the bank was confident of maintaining the growth in the net profit during this financial year. He said, "in the fourth quarter of the last financial year (January-March 2025), the bank reported its highest ever net profit of Rs 1,051 crore and in June 2025 quarter, supposed to be a lean quarter, from that Rs 1,051 crore we have grown to over Rs 1,111 crore net profit, another highest eve
State-owned Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) on Friday reported a 30 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 1,051 crore for the March quarter, helped by a decline in bad loans and a rise in interest income. The Chennai-based lender had earned a net profit of Rs 808 crore in the year-ago period. During the quarter, the bank's total income increased to Rs 9,215 crore, as against Rs 9,106 crore a year ago, Indian Overseas Bank said in a regulatory filing. Interest income grew to Rs 7,634 crore during the period under review, from Rs 6,629 crore in the corresponding quarter a year ago. On the asset quality front, the bank's gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) moderated to 2.14 per cent of gross advances, as compared to 3.10 per cent by the end of March 2024. Similarly, Net NPAs also came down to 0.37 per cent of the advances, over 0.57 per cent at the end of 2024. As a result, total provision during the quarter eased to Rs 200 crore, as against Rs 409 crore in the same quarter a year ago. The b
Public sector Indian Overseas Bank has reduced the Repo Linked Lending Rate of the bank by 25 basis points with immediate effect, the bank said on Saturday. Recently, the Reserve Bank of India in its latest Monetary Policy Committee meeting decided to reduce the Policy Repo Rate from 6.25 per cent to 6 per cent. The decision to slash the rates by the apex bank comes amid looming uncertainties after last week's announcement of 27 per cent tariffs on Indian imports to the US by President Donald Trump. Accordingly, the Asset Liability Management Committee in its meeting held on April 11 has decided to pass on the rate cut to the customers by reducing the Repo Linked Lending Rate of the Bank by 25 basis points from 9.10 per cent to 8.85 per cent with effect from April 12, 2025, the city-headquartered bank said in a press release on Saturday.