The first quarter of calendar 2023 will see new faces heading four large public-sector banks -- Canara Bank, Bank of Baroda, Indian Overseas Bank, and Bank of India
Canara Bank on Friday said it has crossed the business milestone of Rs 20 lakh crore. "Canara Bank has achieved a milestone of crossing the total global business of Rs 20,00,000 crore as on 22nd December, 2022," the bank said in a regulatory filing. Stock of Canara Bank closed at Rs 291.45 apiece on BSE, down by 6.54 per cent.
The quantum raised through Tier 2 bonds is set to rise much further in coming days as Axis Bank is slated to sell Rs 12,000 crore of such instruments on Friday
In the past one month, the Nifty PSU Bank index has rallied 17.4 per cent as against a 2.1 per cent gain in the S&P BSE Sensex
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In the past one month, the Nifty PSU Bank index has rallied 31 per cent as compared to a 2.8 per cent rise in the Nifty 50 index
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ATM deployments had hovered between 225,000 and 235,500 units, before sniffing the 260,000-mark recently
The Nifty PSU Bank index hit a new high of 3,811.15 on Wednesday, and has zoomed 67 per cent from its 52-week low of 2,283.85, touched on June 20, 2022.
The bank had reported an 89% jump in net profit to Rs 2,525 crore in Q2FY23, aided by higher net interest income that came on the back of a healthy growth in advances
The Nifty PSU Bank index hit a fresh 52-week high on Friday and has gained 15 per cent so far this month. The index can rally another 4 per cent.
NII of the lender grew 18.5 per cent year-on-year (YoY) to Rs 7,434 crore
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State-owned lender's gross global advances up 20% YoY to Rs 8.24 trn; retail lending portfolio grows 12.5%
The bank, which aims to keep capital adequacy at the 16% and above level, has already raised Rs 6,000 cr via these instruments in H1
No word yet on successor to MD & CEO Girish Kousgi, who resigned on Monday
The CBI has filed a case against PSL Group and its directors for allegedly cheating Canara Bank to the tune of Rs 428.50 crore by defaulting on credit repayments, officials said. The agency on Thursday conducted searches at seven locations in Mumbai and Kutch, Gujarat, resulting in the recovery of incriminating documents, they said. In addition to the company, the CBI has also named its directors Ashok Yogender Punj, Rajender Kumar Bahri, Chitranjan Kumar, Jagdishchandra Goel and Alok Yogender Punj as accused in the case. Acting on a complaint by the bank, the CBI has taken over investigation after the registration of the FIR. It is alleged the accused entered into a conspiracy to cheat Canara Bank during 2016-19 and sought sanction of various credit facilities, the officials said, adding the accused misrepresented the account books, misutilised the funds of the bank and diverted receivables from its debtors. "It was further alleged that the loan amount received from the bank for
Canara Bank raised Rs 2,000 crore worth of AT1 bonds at a rate of 7.99 per cent, taking its total issuance of such bonds so far in the year to Rs 4,000 crore
The rally in PSU pack thus far in CY22 was mostly led by stocks from the banking and defence-related verticals, while those of oil & gas and metals & minerals did not contribute much