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In 2 weeks, bank tier-2 bond sales soar past AT-1 issues for whole year

Analysts cite credit growth surge, better risk profile of tier-2 bonds behind the rush

Reserve Bank of India removes informal NDF restrictions on banks: Report

India's central bank has lifted informal restrictions placed on banks for trading in the non-deliverable forward market (NDF)

Digital lending apps: RBI received 13,000 complaints against banks, NBFCs

The grievances, filed under RBI's integrated ombudsman scheme of 2021 between April 2021 and Nov 2022, also cite harassment by recovery agents

Not all banks may opt to sell products of 27 insurers, say experts

Insurers are happy with the opening up of the distribution network as they need not shell out huge sums as a sign-in bonus to banks as corporate agents

Banks need to scale up investments in technology, says RBI's MK Jain

Financial institutions must build capacities in analytics and HR, says central bank deputy governor

Bank of Canada hikes policy interest rate by 50 basis points to 4.25%

The Bank of Canada has increased its benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 4.25 per cent

Mix of PSBs aided in boosting customer services, creating strong banks: MoS

The amalgamation of public sector banks has helped in improving customer services and creating strong banks, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash said on Wednesday. In a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha, the minister said the objective of amalgamation of the banks was to facilitate consolidation among PSBs to create "strong and competitive banks" capable of achieving economies of scale and realisation of synergy benefits with wider product and service offering to customers. "As a result of this effort, customers of amalgamated banks received access to increased number of branches and ATMs from which they can now avail banking services. Customers have also received access to a larger bouquet of products and services," he said. The amalgamation also enhanced their lending capacity for loans of a larger size and has also enabled banks to open/reorganise, controlling offices and processing centres, equipping them for better customer serving, Parkash ...

Punjab & Sind Bank aims at CASA ratio of 35% by March: MD Swarup Saha

Punjab & Sind Bank managing director Swarup Kumar Saha has said that the lender is targeting a Current Account Savings Account (CASA) ratio of 35 per cent by the end of the ongoing fiscal and the bank has undertaken various efforts to achieve the goal. CASA ratio, the low cost deposit base, of the state-owned bank stood at 33.36 per cent (Rs 35,102 crore) at the end of September, 2022. Higher CASA ratio pushes profitability of banks as banks can earn higher spreads. "We are looking at CASA ratio of 35 per cent...second half is good for our bank, which is north based, as a lot of savings from agriculture income is routed to these accounts post harvest," he told PTI in an interview. Besides, he said, the bank is focussing on mobilising salary accounts and salary deposit to augment low cost deposit base. As part of this endeavour, he said, the bank has recently tied up with Chandigarh Municipal Corporation to open salary accounts of their 10,000 employees. Similarly, he said, the ...

After the runaway rally, analysts say shift from PSBs to private peers

Private sector banks' outlook is brighter on a relative basis, and the players will outperform benchmark indices from a 6-12 months' perspective, analysts say

Interchange of Rs 17 at ATMs is not viable: Navroze Dastur of NCR Corp

In a Q&A, the country managing director of the world's largest ATM maker, says he sees a lot of banks come to firms such as his to run their ATM network for them in the future

RBI revises norms for classifying UCBs as financially sound & well managed

The boards of the banks have to examine the compliance with the FWSM criteria and pass necessary resolutions and inform RBI immediately

Stock performance remains polarized even as Sensex, Nifty scale new highs

Morgan Stanley remain bullish on consumer discretionary, industrials, financials, and technology; and remain underweight all other sectors

e-Rupee: RBI creates Rs 1.71 crore of digital currency for retail pilot

Aims to involve 50,000 merchants, customers in the next few days

Festivals boost credit card spends to record high of Rs 1.29 trillion

On a year-on-year (YoY) basis, spends were up over 25 per cent, despite a high base

Strong bank loan growth in FY23 despite higher interest rates: Fitch

Fitch Ratings on Monday said India's bank credit will see strong growth in current financial year despite effects of higher interest rates. It said the strong loan growth should benefit net revenue, particularly as it will be coupled with wider net interest margins. "We see bank credit expanding by around 13 per cent in FY23, up from 11.5 per cent in FY22. The acceleration will be driven by the normalisation of economic activity after the COVID-19 pandemic, and high nominal GDP growth, which we expect to boost demand for retail and working-capital loans," Fitch said in a statement. Fitch forecasts India's real GDP growth at 7 per cent in 2022-23. It said Indian banks generally remain open to additional capital-raising to fund growth, despite the rise in rates. "Private banks are generally better than state banks at capital planning, although moves to raise fresh equity are likely to be opportunistic and incremental," Fitch added. The rating agency expects greater competition for .

Banks' overnight SDF balances eligible for LCR computation: RBI

Circular embraces all commercial banks, leaves out local area banks, RRBs and payments banks

HDFC Bank, Canara Bank get RBI approval for rupee trade with Russia

Three others got permission earlier, but no deal so far

Banking on tenure

Longer terms for PSB chiefs address the talent gap partly

Govt appoints 10 executive directors to public sector banks for 3 years

The union government decided to increase the term of wholetime directors in public sector banks, including MD & CEOs, to 10 years, from five years

Trend shift? Bank deposits rise four times versus credit outflows

Credit rose by Rs 0.43 trillion to Rs 129.26 trillion and deposits grew by Rs 1.7 trillion to Rs 173.7 trillion in the reporting fortnight