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Manojit Saha is the Banking Editor for Business Standard and is based in Mumbai. He has been tracking the financial sector for over two decades, with a focus on the Reserve Bank of India and monetary policy. He has also contributed to Business Standard's digital offering - The Banking Show - with interviews with business leaders, CEOs and key policy makers. He has anchored panel discussions between CEOs from banking, insurance, NBFCs and fintech industry for the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit, and the Business Standard-IMGC India Mortgage Leadership Conclave, among others.
Manojit Saha is the Banking Editor for Business Standard and is based in Mumbai. He has been tracking the financial sector for over two decades, with a focus on the Reserve Bank of India and monetary policy. He has also contributed to Business Standard's digital offering - The Banking Show - with interviews with business leaders, CEOs and key policy makers. He has anchored panel discussions between CEOs from banking, insurance, NBFCs and fintech industry for the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit, and the Business Standard-IMGC India Mortgage Leadership Conclave, among others.
The bank has been maintaining a net interest margin of 7.6 per cent in both quarters of FY25 and Q4 of FY24
Regulatory comfort drives bank boards to appoint SBI officials for stability
Das says inflation-growth balance well-poised; rates may start falling from Dec
RBI's confidence on growth has surprised market participants at a time when high frequency indicators pointing towards slowing economic activity
Ex-SBI Sengupta was credited for turning around IOB
We have to be very careful because there is every chance that inflation will simply bolt again, says Das
Oct meeting being held amid a flurry of activities by leading central banks
LCR is likely to be the first challenge for Federal Bank's new chief K V S Manian
RBI's MPC has six members - three are from within RBI: Governor, deputy governor in charge of monetary policy, and one more officer from RBI who is nominated by the central board of RBI
With inflation easing, household consumption growth likely to be faster in Q2
Rating agency ICRA estimates Rs 45,000 crore to Rs 50,000 worth of securitisation and direct assignment deals in the July-Sep quarter
The move comes at a time when banks are scrambling for deposits amid healthy loan growth
Claim it will impact retail deposits as 90% are digitally linked
Monsoon progress brightens food inflation outlook
Bajaj Housing Finance is looking to raise Rs 6,560 cr, of which fresh issues are for Rs 3,560 cr and offer for sale is for Rs 3,000 cr. Bidding for the IPO opens on Sept 9 and closes on Sept 11
In recent years, the regulator has imposed business restrictions and barred entities from onboarding new customers for violating norms and causing customer inconvenience
Maintaining loan growth momentum, protecting margins may not be easy as interest rate cycle changes
Goyal, who voted for rate cut in both June and August review meetings, says that she does not see any broad-based rise in core inflation
The only available yardstick for evaluating the tightness of monetary policy is the real interest rate. The nominal repo rate is useless for this purpose
Deputy governor Michael Patra also warned about the spillover effects of food inflation