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Axis Bank looking at more partnerships with Big Tech: Axis Bank MD

Amitabh Chaudhry says the private lender spends Rs 900 crore every buying priority sector lending certificates to meet its targets

Govt norms ensure no one makes money in payments space: Axis Bank head

Private sector lender Axis Bank on Wednesday said government mandates on the payments space ensure that no one can make money in the segment. The bank's chief executive and managing director Amitabh Chaudhry feared that smaller entities will not be able to survive amid such diktats. The comments from Axis Bank, which also runs the payments company Freecharge, come amid a debate on whether merchant discount rate (MDR) should be levied on the very popular UPI platform. The government, which wants to popularise digital payments, has been insisting that no charges should be levied. "What the government is doing is that they're taking out the entire P&L (profit and loss) opportunity for us. So if you look at the payments space, no one can make any money in the country at all. You have to use payments as a platform to make money somewhere else," Chaudhry said at the Global Fintech Fest here. The worry is that more and more of such demands will emerge, which will take away revenue and ...

Flipkart Big Billion Days sale 2022: List of smartphones to be on discount

Flipkart has created a webpage of the upcoming sale and has posted updates regarding the much anticipated deals and offers on products across categories

GMR Warora Energy signs pact with lenders to recast Rs 3,000 cr loans

Loans would be repaid progressively over 15 years, giving the company additional time of about seven years to extinguish the liability

Stocks to Watch: NDTV, Dr.Reddy's, IndiGo, SBI, Zee, Consumer Firms

Stocks to Watch Today: NDTV open offer to start from October 17. IndiGo's co-promoter Rakesh Gangwal likely to sell up to 2.8 per cent stake in open market.

Axis Bank ties up with PayNearby, aims to boost priority sector lending

Private lender's portfolio of rural loans was at Rs 58,800 cr at the end of the first quarter this financial year

Banks in talks with Singapore's DBS to begin real-time remittance system

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

HDFC Bank's Rs 3,000-crore AT1 bonds get FY23's best rate at 7.84%

Canara Bank plans Rs 1,500-2,000 cr AT1 sale; Axis Bank, too, mulls fundraise

HDFC Bank, SBI AT-1 rates set to influence pricing of other issuances

The bonds will have a call option from the fifth year onwards and are rated AA+ by CRISIL, CARE and India Ratings, sources said

RIL inches closer to acquiring Lanco Amarkantak with Rs 1,960 cr cash offer

If the deal goes through, it will be the third big-ticket acquisition by the Ambani firm under IBC

Credit card spends touch all-time high of Rs 1.16 trillion in July

Spends have topped Rs 1 trillion level for five consecutive months now

Axis Bank eyes 10% stake in Go Digit life insurance business: Report

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

SAT quashes NSE order against Kotak Mahindra Bank in share pledging case

Says stock exchange only has jurisdiction over trading members and cannot issue directions to other entities

Stocks to watch: RIL, L&T Tech, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Lupin, Ashok Leyland

Stocks to watch today: ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, and IDFC First Bank have increased interest rates on deposits worth Rs 2 crore & above; BPCL plans to scale up renewable energy portfolio to 10 GW by 2040

Axis Bank's stake likely to rise to 20% in 6-9 months: Max Life CEO

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 ..

Axis Bank hikes MCLR by 5 bps across tenors, follows other lenders

Banks change lending policy to keep up with monetary policy committee's raising repo rate

Over next few quarters, Axis Bank will increase stake: Max Life CEO

'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'

HDFC Bank's Kaizad Bharucha took home the most among bankers in FY22

Axis' Amitabh Chaudhry the highest paid among bank CEOs

Axis Bank to wind up UK subsidiary after deal with OpenPayd fails

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

Axis Bank to acquire over 5% stake in CredAble for Rs 55 crore by September

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.