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Manojit Saha is the Banking Editor at Business Standard based in Mumbai, tracking the financial sector for over two decades, with a focus on central bank and monetary policy making. He also contributed to Business Standard’s digital offering – The Banking Show – with interviews with business leaders, CEOs, and important policymakers. He anchored panel discussions comprising CEOs from banking, insurance, NBFCs and fintech industry for the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit, Business Standard-IMGC India Mortgage Leadership Conclave, among others.
Manojit Saha is the Banking Editor at Business Standard based in Mumbai, tracking the financial sector for over two decades, with a focus on central bank and monetary policy making. He also contributed to Business Standard’s digital offering – The Banking Show – with interviews with business leaders, CEOs, and important policymakers. He anchored panel discussions comprising CEOs from banking, insurance, NBFCs and fintech industry for the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit, Business Standard-IMGC India Mortgage Leadership Conclave, among others.
Worse still, Casa deposits' share of incremental deposits has fallen to single digit (6.7%), for the second time in 10 years
Risk weight back to pre-pandemic level of 50%
In a Q&A, the company's CEO dwells on the huge opportunity the payments business provides in India and why there is a sudden rush to acquire an aggregator licence
FY24 inflation projection cut to 5.2%; growth forecast at 6.5%
The survey showed that household spending was buoyant on the back of higher essential and non-essential spending
"It is now necessary to assess the cumulative impact of our action taken so far"
Surge in digital payments in the past few years has highlighted the need for banks to raise the capacity of their digital platforms
According to a UBS India report, the rupee is likely to strengthen as the current account gap is expected to narrow in FY24
All eyes on policy stance, pause signal
The rupee closed FY23 at 82.18 to a dollar, against 75.79 a year ago
Clear signage to represent each banks' space; Citi to retain 14 branches
"It is hard therefore to find many products outside India that are manufactured by Indian firms," he said
In a Q&A, the MD & CEO of the firm dwells on its business model and the focus on retail assets to drive volume, going forward
Sitaraman said banks' provisioning cover ratio was close to 75 per cent - the highest in about the last 25 years
Since debt MFs will now be on a par with AIFs on the taxation front, the returns on each will only be a function of yields
Cash dispensers reconfigure cassette with lower denominations
'Core inflation defies softening of input costs'
"These are to get into asset reconstruction business, alternative investment fund business, wealth management and similar synergistic business, which the existing management can start"
This is because UBS had surrendered its bank licence about a decade back after the banking regulator denied its request to offer wealth management services
Philippines has been increasingly coming under the lens of the Financial Action Task Force, and has already been designated as an FATF grey list country