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Regulating the regulators

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RBI lifts curb on boarding of new customers on Bob World app after 6 months

The RBI had imposed restriction on state-owned Bank of Baroda (BoB) on October 10, 2023 from onboarding new customers on its mobile app 'Bob World'

NPCI issues guidelines for merchant acquisition on BHIM Aadhar Pay

BHIM Aadhaar Pay enables merchants to receive digital payments from customers over the counter through Aadhaar authentication, according to the NPCI website

'Pet insurance market in India to reach Rs 6,500 crore mark by 2025'

As the pet care market in India is growing at about 14 per cent and is expected to become over Rs 6500 crore by 2025, insurance companies are aggressively trying to take a share of this sector. Industry experts said insurance companies are trying to address this rapidly evolving market with bespoke plans to cater to the increasing rate of adoption of pets and the rising cost of medical treatment incurred to protect these furry companions. Future Generali India Insurance Chief Distribution Officer Ramit Goyal, said, "While pet insurance products have been in existence in India for some years now, it has witnessed a significant progression over the last few years post Covid with the rising pet ownership and affection for pets translating into a higher demand for pet insurance." India is considered to be one of the fastest-growing pet markets in the world clocking an annual growth rate of nearly 14 per cent and the country's pet care market is likely to touch USD 800 million by ...

Commercial banks for 1-2% project finance provisioning; RBI proposed 5%

Industry sees short-term pain

Household savings dip over Rs 9 trn in 3 yrs to Rs 14.16 trn in 2022-23

Net household savings declined sharply by Rs 9 lakh crore to Rs 14.16 lakh crore in three years to 2022-23, according to the latest National Account Statistics 2024 of the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. The net household savings peaked at Rs 23.29 lakh crore in 2020-21. These have been on the decline since then, the data showed. The net household savings declined to Rs 17.12 lakh crore in 2021-22 and dipped further to a five-year low of Rs 14.16 lakh crore in 2022-23. The previous low of net household savings was Rs 13.05 lakh crore in 2017-18 which increased to Rs 14.92 lakh crore in 2018-19 and Rs 15.49 lakh crore in 2019-20. The data showed that the investment in mutual funds almost trebled to Rs 1.79 lakh crore in 2022-23 in three years from Rs 64,084 crore in 2020-21. It was Rs 1.6 lakh crore in 2021-22. The household investment in shares and debentures almost doubled to Rs 2.06 lakh crore in 2022-23 from Rs 1.07 lakh crore in three years from 2020-21. I

IIFL Finance facing liquidity crunch after gold loan business curbs: Report

"Banks are neither sanctioning new lines (of credit) nor disbursing from already sanctioned limits," the official at the company, who did not want to be named, said

ADB's Board of Governors approve $1.42 billion in 2023 allocable net income

$292.5 million to the Asian Development Fund, which provides grants to ADB's poorest and most vulnerable developing member countries

Outstanding credit to housing up by Rs 10 trillion in last 2 years: RBI

Credit outstanding to the housing sector rose by nearly Rs 10 lakh crore in the last two fiscals to reach a record Rs 27.23 lakh crore in March this year, according to RBI's data on 'Sectoral Deployment of Bank Credit'. Experts from banking and real estate sectors attributed this growth in housing credit outstanding to a strong revival in the residential property market post-COVID pandemic on pent-up demand. According to the data of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on sectoral deployment of bank credit for March 2024, the credit outstanding to the housing (including priority sector housing') stood at Rs 27,22,720 crore in March 2024, up from Rs 19,88,532 crore in March 2023, and Rs 17,26,697 crore in March 2022. The data also showed that the credit outstanding towards commercial real estate stood at Rs 4,48,145 crore in March 2024. It was at Rs 2,97,231 crore in March 2022. According to reports from various property consultants, housing sales and prices have surged significantly in

IOB adopts multi-pronged approach to ensure recovery from NPA accounts

Public sector Indian Overseas Bank has made concerted efforts for a reduction in Non-Performing Accounts and has adopted a multi-pronged approach to ensure a maximum recovery from such accounts. The measures taken by the city-headquartered bank have yielded a decline in Gross NPA to 3.90 per cent as of December 31, 2023, from 11.69 per cent recorded as of March 31, 2021, the bank said in a statement here. To sustain and bolster this momentum, the bank has published a sale notification that pertains to the sale of 92 NPA loans, aggregating to an outstanding due of Rs 13,471.68 crore. "Indian Overseas Bank in its concerted efforts towards reduction of NPA has embraced a multi-pronged approach to ensure maximum recovery in NPA accounts. IOB has diligently implemented timely recovery measures including Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (SARFAESI) actions, Compromise Settlement Schemes, and sale to Asset Reconstruction Companies,"

M&M Finance Q4FY24 results: Net profit declines 10% to Rs 619 crore

Expenses grew by nearly 36 per cent on the year to Rs 2,874.56 crore in the quarter under review, up from Rs 2,112.94 crore in the January-March quarter of FY23

RBI proposes tighter rules for under-construction infra project financing

Indian banks had seen large defaults across infrastructure loans starting 2012-2013 on account of exuberant lending, which led to a strain on the country's banking system

RBI revises banks' capital market exposure norms for T+1 settlement

The limit of 30 per cent for risk is based on the assumption of 20 per cent downward price movement of the equities on T+1

Federal Bank Q4 results: Profit flat at Rs 906 cr due to pension expense

Bank in advance stages of submitting new CEO names to RBI

RBI proposes to bring NBFCs, co-op banks under operational risk norms

The 2005 guidance on the issue, which will be repealed, was aimed only at commercial banks

Beware of parcel fraud: Suspect a scam call? Disengage immediately

Verify the call's authenticity; resist pressure to pay up or share sensitive information

Uco Bank to spend Rs 1,000 crore in FY25 to boost digital infrastructure

The tech spending of the lender was Rs 700 crore in the financial year 2023-24

Bank credit growth to NBFCs, personal loans moderate in March: RBI data

Credit growth in agriculture and allied activities remained robust, reaching 20.1 per cent year-on-year in March 2024, up from 15.4 per cent in the corresponding month a year ago

Monetary policy expectations impact stocks more than rate moves: RBI paper

Equity markets are impacted more by the expectations of future monetary policy than the policy rate surprises on the day of announcement of the policy by the Reserve Bank, said an analysis. According to a working paper prepared by RBI officials, the regulatory and development measures which are announced along with the monetary policy too impact the stock markets. "...equity markets are affected more by the changes in the market's expectations of future monetary policy (path factor) than the policy rate surprise (target factor) which is in agreement with the conventional thinking that equity markets are forward-looking," the paper said. The volatility in equity markets on the day of policy announcement, it said, "is affected by both target and path factors, as markets digest the policy announcements and traders adjust their portfolios throughout the day". RBI Working Paper on 'Equity Markets and Monetary Policy Surprises' is prepared by Mayank Gupta, Amit Pawar, Satyam Kumar, ...

L&T Finance plans to increase short term, ECB fundraise in FY25

Company aims for strategic adjustments to benefit from the anticipated softening of interest rates