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Banks turn RBI's hot-money decision into lucrative trade strategy

At the center is the RBI's decision in February to remove limits on local bank exposures to other countries and central banks

IndusInd Bank: With the balance sheet stabilising, focus shifts to growth

Street's apprehension on asset quality and ability to regain footing on deposits has been arrested

Banks sanctions Rs 25,586 cr to 114,322 Stand-Up India accounts in 5 years

The Finance Ministry on Sunday said banks have sanctioned Rs 25,586 crore to about 1,14,322 beneficiaries under the Stand Up India Scheme in the last five years for promoting entrepreneurship among women and SC & STs. The objective of Stand-Up India is to promote entrepreneurship amongst women, Scheduled Castes (SC) & Scheduled Tribes (ST) categories, to help them in starting a greenfield enterprise in trading, manufacturing and services sector, by both ready and trainee borrowers, the Finance Ministry said in a statement. Under the scheme, bank loans between Rs 10 lakh and Rs 1 crore are provided to at least one Scheduled Caste/ Scheduled Tribe borrower and at least one woman borrower per bank branch of Scheduled Commercial Banks. Started in April 5, 2016, the scheme has benefited 93,094 women entrepreneurs with outstanding loan of Rs 21,200 crore as of March 23. This scheme, which has been extended up to 2025, covers SC/ST and/or women entrepreneurs, above 18 years of age, ..

Private lender Yes Bank targets startup sector, ties-up with GVFL

To broaden its services for the start-up sector, the lender Yes Bank has tied-up with GVFL Limited.

Individual loan business continues to improve in January-March: HDFC

Loans worth Rs 7,503 crore were assigned to its banking subsidiary.

Laid strong base for growth, aiming at 13.5% CAGR by 2025: Indian Bank MD

Bank announces new vision and mission on first anniversary of Allahabad Bank amalgamation, launches Chatbot and IB Smart Office as well

Under Modi regime, private banks outnumber PSBs on new rural branches

Since 2014, public sector banks' branch network in rural and semi urban has grown by a mere 4,000 - from 49,859 in 2014 to 53,467 while for private sector banks, it doubled from 9,673 to 18,437

China's financial regulators draft tougher rules for too-big-to-fail banks

Chinese authorities have started to evaluate systemically important banks this year by measuring assets of the nation's 30 largest lenders.

The forgotten case for bank nationalisation

In the recent clamour for their re-privatisation, we seem to have forgotten the rationale for bank nationalisation and the crucial role public sector banks continue to play in war against poverty

Karnataka Bank targets over Rs 1.42 trn business turnover in FY22

Public sector Karnataka Bank has targeted 12 per cent business growth in the current fiscal year, expecting total business of over Rs 1.42 trillion.

NBFCs seek easing of rules on NACH mandate cancellation

NBFC industry body says this facility should work on "best effort" basis and not be made mandatory as most customers are not tech-savvy and are not comfortable with electronic platforms

Bank credit to medium-sized firms grows 21% in February, shows data

The outstanding loans to large corporations continue to shrink as many of them have repaid existing loans

HDFC increases rates on FD with different maturities up to 25 bps

Mortgage lender HDFC Ltd has increased interest rates on its various fixed deposit products having different maturities by up to 25 basis points (bps) with effect from March 30.

Govt not interested in footing Rs 8,000-cr moratorium bill for banks

Govt is of the view that the onus of reimbursing compound interest charged to customers does not fall on entirely on itself, said a top govt official

Trai meets bankers to iron out issues over new pesky SMS regulations

Some banks are fine-tuning systems, so that there is standardised mechanism of sending SMSes

HDFC Bank customers face difficulty in accessing net, mobile banking

Vent frustration on social media; bank has faced similar issues in the past

Your auto payments for phone bills, OTT subscriptions may fail in April

Transactions worth more than Rs 2,000 cr expected to be affected as RBI refuses more time to comply with new pre-debit notification rule

Credit Suisse, Nomura tumble as banks tally exposure to Archegos damage

Nomura's shares tumbled by a record 16% in Tokyo on Monday

AU SFB has to pass asset quality test after raising funds: Analysts

The stock has corrected by about 12 per cent after touching a high of Rs 1,315 a share on March 9

Financial services space set for disruption over next 10 years: Kamath

Not just banking but the entire financial services space is set for disruption over the next 10 years, which will lead to reduction in transaction costs, veteran banker K V Kamath said on Friday. He said technology is transforming the way banking is done and bankers need to internalise this. Citing the first wave of change brought about in the banking space 20 years ago, Kamath said it changed the sector in a positive way. "Unless you internalise it's going to be a digital world...we will see a very quick evolution of this space in the next 10 years. It's not just bank but entire financial services space is set for disruption, not necessarily a negative way, it can be also in a positive way," the former president of New Development Bank said. Speaking at the Times Network India Economic Conclave, he said disruption will bring down transaction costs dramatically. For example, technology has brought down the intermediation cost for micro-credit, Kamath pointed out. He said bankers