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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.
Banks issue 17 mn cards in first five months of current fiscal, up 30% from 13 mn cards in year-ago period; Customers prefer debit cards for small value transactions, says report
According to RBI data, bank credit grew at 16.2% YoY as on September 9, while deposits were up by 9.5%
On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, volume of transactions was up 85.55 per cent and value of transactions was up 70.61 per cent during the same period.
Inflation target retained at 6.7%; trajectory remains uncertain: Governor
Das says RBI won't make public the communication on failure of achieving target to govt
RBI which announced the review of policy today, decided to increase the policy repo rate by 50 bps to 5.9%
Trade between India and Russia started growing after the latter invaded Ukraine in late February
From a peak of 886,490 in 2012-13, the staff strength in government banks fell to 770,800 in 2020-21
This is probably the first time the regulator has cracked down on lenders on recovery by coercive methods, which is typically a hallmark of outsourced recovery agents
'At sector level, large banks, both public-sector as well as private, need to increase their reach'
Many banks in India are planning to open such special vostro accounts for settling trade transactions with other nations
This malware captures the credentials when users log into their net-banking apps and access bank accounts
'Corporate demand is for both working capital and term loans'
On the exchange rate, the report said the rupee was holding its poise, with adequate supplies of dollars
Meeting discusses that it's endeavour of regulators to ensure incidents like the NSE colocation scam don't repeat and there are better ways to deal with the fallout
'We have identified accounts worth Rs 11,000 crore, of which Rs 4,000 crore is technically written off', said Sharma
Negotiations underway on increasing bid amount, shorter payment schedule
Terminal repo rate seen at 6%; interest cost for retail, MSMEs went up by Rs 42,000 crore says SBI report
Moscow is pushing for ruble payment for crude imports after Russia's energy major Gazprom signed a deal with China to start payments for gas supplies to China in yuan and rubles instead of dollars
'I feel more positive about the NBFC sector than I did in the last three years', said Manisha Girotra