Private lender's portfolio of rural loans was at Rs 58,800 cr at the end of the first quarter this financial year
At least five Indian banks, including the State Bank of India and ICICI Bank, are in discussions with Singapore's DBS Bank to start a real-time remittance system using UPI as the backbone
Canara Bank plans Rs 1,500-2,000 cr AT1 sale; Axis Bank, too, mulls fundraise
The bonds will have a call option from the fifth year onwards and are rated AA+ by CRISIL, CARE and India Ratings, sources said
If the deal goes through, it will be the third big-ticket acquisition by the Ambani firm under IBC
Spends have topped Rs 1 trillion level for five consecutive months now
Axis is planning to take a 10% stake for around $9 million in the start-up's upcoming life insurance business, effectively valuing the business at $90 million
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Axis Bank is likely to raise its stake in Max Life Insurance to about 20 per cent over the next 6-9 months, the insurance company's CEO Prashant Tripathy said. Currently, Axis Bank and its two subsidiaries Axis Capital Ltd and Axis Securities Ltd collectively own 12.99 per cent of Max Life Insurance post approval of the deal in April last year. "The bank currently holds about 13 per cent and we are hopeful that over the next 2-3 quarters they would be able to take it to 20 per cent," Tripathy told PTI in an interview. Under the deal, the Axis entities also have the right to acquire an additional stake of up to seven per cent in Max Life, in one or more tranches, subject to regulatory approvals. He further said bancassurance with Axis Bank has seen a growth of 18-20 per cent over the last five years and 60 per cent of new sales come from the Axis Bank tie-up at present. Besides Axis Bank, the life insurer has bancassurance partnerships with Yes Bank and a few other cooperative ..
Banks change lending policy to keep up with monetary policy committee's raising repo rate
'The value of new business (VNB) grew 23 per cent - this means we improved our margins and our total assets under management grew 14 per cent'
Axis' Amitabh Chaudhry the highest paid among bank CEOs
At the end of June, the bank had an overseas loan book of Rs 38,928 cr, a contraction from Rs 45,750 cr in March quarter
The bank will acquire 8,921 equity shares, equivalent to 5.09 per cent, of face value of Rs 10 each for Rs 55 crore in CredAble.
Under the deal worth Rs 12,325 crore, announced on March 30, Axis Bank would take over Citi's credit cards, personal loans and wealth management businesses that are focused on the affluent segment.
CLOSING BELL: Equity markets settled near the low point of the day as investors chose to stay on the sidelines ahead of the US Federal Reserve's monetary policy outcome on Wednesday
According to analysts, Axis' earnings beat was led by NIM expansion, and credit cost being restricted at less than 20 bps
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