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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.
Amid reports of merger talks with an NBFC, R Baskar Babu says Suryoday SFB is always open for both organic and inorganic growth opportunities
Economists say RBI likely to revise inflation forecast downward in October policy
Minister of State for Finance, Bhagwat Karad will meet the PSB CEOs on September 16 in Aurangabad
Only the company's chairman and four managing directors are allowed to comment on the offer expected this financial year.
Power Finance Corporation (PFC) is planning to come up with Euro denominated green bond issuances, and has appointed bankers including Barclays, Standard Chartered, for investors in Europe and Asia
'Our collective decision was to record our views through the MPC minutes and not elsewhere,' says Chetan Ghate.
HDFC Bank plans to aggressively issue cards after central bank withdraws ban, helping sector to make more gains.
Central bank is risking making inflation entrenched with its easy money policy, says dissenting member of Monetary Policy Committee.
In a Q&A, Goyal, a member of RBI's Monetary Policy Committee, says reducing excess liquidity is at RBI's discretion and MPC members can only offer advice
RBI's announcement of liquidity absorption through the variable reverse repo auction was interpreted by the market as an indication of withdrawal from the accommodative stance
MHA norms restrict cash movement in rural, semi-urban areas, which will hinder cash distribution, says an official of the Confederation of ATM Industry
This was the seventh consecutive occasion when the central bank maintained a status quo on policy rates
Meeting quorum of board sub-committees becomes difficult sometimes, say bankers
HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis say bulk of the loans marked substandard in April-June was in retail category, but expect turnaround as lockdowns end.
Banks asked to capture closure reason in CBS
Kamath panel approved all the nine proposals of banks
A host of activities have been stalled on the upgraded e-filing portal; banks seek undertaking from customers for overseas payment
The 10-year paper is no longer the most traded one - which is unusual
Centrum's role in the small finance bank will be mainly on the asset side and will focus on lending to small and medium business. Bharat Pe will focus on the liabilities side
However, restrictions to continue for a while till Centrum gets the final approval