State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Tuesday said it plans to raise Rs 1,500 crore through bonds to fund business growth. The lender intends to raise the funds through private placement of Basel-III compliant tier II bonds, BoM said in a regulatory filing. The issue size is Rs 250 crore with a green shoe option of Rs 1,250 crore, it added. The tenure of the bonds is going to be 10 years. The bond auction date is September 14, while allotment to bidders would be made on September 18, the filing said.
State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has emerged as the top performer among public sector lenders in loan and deposit growth in percentage terms during the first quarter of the current financial year. The deposit and advances of the Pune-based lender recorded nearly 25 per cent rise, the highest by any public sector bank during the April-June quarter. With a growth rate of 24.98 per cent the gross domestic advances of the bank rose to Rs 1,75,676 crore at the end of June 2023, according to published quarterly numbers of the public sector banks (PSBs). It was followed by UCO Bank with 20.70 per cent growth, while Bank of Baroda with 16.80 per cent and Indian Overseas Bank with 16.21 per cent growth were at third and fourth spot respectively. Country's largest lender State Bank of India stood at fifth spot with 15.08 per cent rise in domestic advances growth. However, SBI's total loans were about 16 times higher at Rs 28,20,433 crore, as compared to Rs 1,75,676 crore of BoM in abso
The lender has hiked the MCLR by 10 basis points in select tenors upto one year
A number of public sector banks, including Bank of Baroda (BoB) and Canara Bank, raised the marginal cost of funds based lending rates (MCLR) by up to 10 basis points even though RBI retained policy rate on Thursday. The move will make EMIs linked to MCLR expensive. The one-year tenor MCLR is the rate against which most consumer loans are tied to. The revised one-year MCLR would be 8.70 per cent as against the existing rate of 8.65 per cent, BoB said in a regulatory filing. The new rate would be effective from August 12, it said. Canara Bank too raised its MCLR by 5 basis points to 8.70 per cent effective August 12. Another public sector lender, Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has increased its MCLR by 10 basis points. With the hike, the rate of one-year MCLR rises to 8.60 per cent as compared to 8.50 per cent, BoM said in a filing. The revised rate is effective from August 10, 2023, it said. The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has decided to keep the policy repo rate unchanged at 6
A level below 19,300 would be considered bearish sign in Nifty for the short term, says Vinay Rajani, senior technical and derivative research analyst at HDFC Securities
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State-run UCO Bank and Bank of Maharashtra are working without chairpersons since April 2015, the Lok Sabha was told on Monday. Bank of India, Central Bank of India, Indian Bank, and Indian Overseas Bank, also do not have chairpersons. The posts of chairpersons have been vacant in UCO Bank and Bank of Maharashtra since April 22, 2015, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat Karad said in the Lok Sabha in a written reply. The top post in Indian Bank has been vacant since August 2018, while Bank of India is without a chairperson since August 2020, Indian Overseas Bank since February 2020, and Central Bank of India since May 2021. The country has 12 public sector banks (PSBs). The provision to separate posts of chairpersons and managing directors in PSBs was made in April 2015. Subsequently, non-executive chairpersons have been appointed in nine banks, the minister said. The government, which appoints chairpersons of state-owned banks, has constituted Financial Services Institutions
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It made a provision of Rs 250 crore for any additional burden due to shifting to expected credit loss (ECL) for loan portfolio
Net Interest Income (NII) grew by 38.80% YoY to Rs 2,340 crore in Q1FY24 as against Rs 1,686 crore for Q1FY23
State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Monday said it has posted a credit growth of 24.93 per cent at Rs 1.75 lakh crore in the June quarter. The outstanding credit was Rs 1.40 lakh crore at the end of June 30, 2022, BoM said in a regulatory filing. The Pune-headquartered lender registered a 24.82 per cent growth in total business (total advances and total deposits) to Rs 4.19 lakh crore at the end of June 2023 as against Rs 3.36 lakh crore at the end of the same quarter of previous fiscal. Total deposits of the bank increased by 24.73 per cent to Rs 2.44 lakh crore as against Rs 1.95 lakh crore at the end of the first quarter of the previous financial year. During the quarter, it said, the Current Account and Savings Account (CASA) ratio stood at 50.97 per cent of the total deposits. With regard to Credit Deposit (CD) ratio, it said, the number has increased to 71.86 per cent at the end of June 30, 2023 as against 71.75 per cent in the year-ago period. Gross investment of the
Bank of Maharashtra said its loans expanded by 25 per cent YoY to Rs.1.75 trillion. This pace was much higher than the banking system's 15.4 per cent growth till June 16, 2023, according to RBI
The Reserve Bank on Friday said it has imposed a penalty of Rs 2.5 crore on Jammu and Kashmir Bank for non-compliance with certain directions, including one related to 'time-bound implementation and strengthening of SWIFT-related operational controls'. A penalty of Rs 1.45 crore has also been imposed on Bank of Maharashtra for non-compliance with certain directions issued by RBI on Loans and Advances Statutory and Other Restrictions' and Advisory on Man in the Middle (MiTM) Attacks in ATMs'. In another statement, the RBI said a penalty of Rs 30 lakh has been imposed on Axis Bank. The lender, it said had levied penal charges in certain accounts for late payment of credit card dues though the customers had paid the dues by the due date, through third-party platforms. The RBI, however, said penalities are based on deficiencies in regulatory compliance and not intended to pronounce upon the validity of any transaction or agreement entered into by the entities with their customers.
The Pune-based lender had recovered Rs 943 crore from written-off accounts in FY23, up from Rs 642 crore in FY22, according to the document filed Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP)
The board of Bank of Maharashtra on Tuesday, June 6, 2023 allotted 350.88 million equity shares of Rs 10 each allotted to QIBs pursuant to QIP
State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) on Wednesday said it has raised Rs 1,000 crore through Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP). The QIP opened on June 1 and closed on June 6, 2023. The board of the bank had approved the issuance of equity shares to Qualified Institutional Investors at the rate of Rs 28.50 per unit (with premium of Rs 18.50 per share), BoM said in a statement. The QIP was fully subscribed and received a strong response from domestic as well as foreign institutional investors, highlighting a well-diversified representation and demand from across the globe. The capital raised through QIP will not only strengthen capital adequacy ratio of the bank but also support growth, it said. It will also help meet minimum public shareholding (MPS) norms of market regulator Sebi. As per Sebi norms, listed entities are required to have at least 25 per cent public shareholding. Currently, the government of India holds a 90.97 per cent stake in the bank. The QIP will help b
The Pune-based state-owned lender was followed by HDFC Bank with net NPA falling to 0.27 per cent and Kotak Mahindra Bank clinching the third spot with 0.37 per cent of net advances
State-owned Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) has emerged as the top performer among public sector lenders in terms of loan and deposit growth in percentage terms during 2022-23. The Pune-headquartered lender also recorded highest growth in profitability with bottomline growing almost 126 per cent to Rs 2,602 crore during the year. However, all the 12 public sector banks together recorded 57 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 1,04,649 crore in FY23, according to published yearly numbers of public sector banks (PSBs). In terms of percentage increase in gross advances, BoM recorded 29.4 per cent jump in loans at Rs 1,75,120 crore as of March 2023. It was followed by Indian Overseas Bank and UCO Bank with 21.2 per cent and 20.6 per cent growth, respectively. However, in absolute terms, aggregate loans of the country's biggest lender SBI were nearly 16 times higher at Rs 27,76,802 crore. With regard to deposit growth, BoM witnessed 15.7 per cent rise and mobilised Rs 2,34,083 crore at the end
Public sector lender to raise capital up to Rs 7,500 cr; recommends dividend of 13% per share of Rs 10 each