The card allows you to tailor benefits to your lifestyle and pick shops to earn cashback, as well as choosing card design and billing cycle date.
Calendar year 2024 (CY24) will be a good year for 'quality stocks and bonds', according to analysts at Morgan Stanley. Stocks, they said, have priced in a 'perfect landing' scenario
Presently, non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), including microfinance institutions (MFIs) and small finance banks, are the major lenders to women seeking loans for income generation purposes
HDFC Bank on Friday said it has raised USD 500 million from IFC for onlending to underserved women borrowers. The country's largest private sector lender will extend finance for income generation, fostering financial inclusion and socio-economic growth, as per an official statement. It will extend the microloans to self-help groups and joint liability groups of women enrolled under the Sustainable Livelihoods Initiative (SLI) of the lender. HDFC Bank's group head for Treasury, Arup Rakshit, said this is a longer duration credit facility which has been availed by the lender, and it will help in boosting the bank's efforts in empowering women. The statement said even though the non-banks have a deeper reach and serve two-thirds of the microfinance market, banks' extensive reach and lower funding costs can be leveraged to extend microloans to women. "Access to financial services is key to empowering women and strengthening the economy," IFC's regional director for South Asia Imad ...
Country's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank spends 6-7 per cent of its overall expenses on technology-related aspects every year, a senior official said on Tuesday. Parag Rao, HDFC Bank head for payments and consumer finance, said the bank has been investing in digital capabilities amid "cloudification", where tasks are moved to the cloud. The comments come amid greater regulatory scrutiny on the technology front. "We spend about 6-7 per cent of our overall expenses on technology," he told reporters here on the sidelines of a digital credit card launch of the bank. He explained that the spends go up initially when the capital expenditure is higher and then go down gradually. About 50 per cent of the spend is on employees, while the rest is on remaining aspects like hardware, software and keeping the network operational, he said. It can be noted that HDFC Bank was the first major lender to be slapped with business restrictions like a pause on issuing new credit cards and als
Digital investments part of lender's 'transformation journey', says Parag Rao
The combined market valuation of six of the top-10 most valued firms eroded by Rs 1,73,097.59 crore last week, with HDFC Bank and Life Insurance Corporation of India taking the maximum hit in line with weak equities. Last week, the BSE benchmark tanked 1,213.68 points or 1.64 per cent. The market valuation of HDFC Bank slumped Rs 60,678.26 crore to Rs 10,93,026.58 crore. LIC's valuation tanked Rs 43,168.1 crore to Rs 5,76,049.17 crore. Reliance Industries faced an erosion of Rs 36,094.96 crore to Rs 19,04,643.44 crore from its market valuation. The market capitalisation (mcap) of ICICI Bank declined by Rs 17,567.94 crore to Rs 7,84,833.83 crore, and that of State Bank of India went lower by Rs 11,780.49 crore to Rs 7,30,345.62 crore. ITC's valuation dipped by Rs 3,807.84 crore to Rs 5,40,838.13 crore. However, the mcap of Hindustan Unilever climbed Rs 33,270.22 crore to Rs 5,53,822.16 crore. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) added Rs 20,442.2 crore, taking its valuation to Rs ...
Sector is expected to grow further as credit demand grows, say senior executives
Atanu Chakraborty is not related to any other directors or key managerial personnel of the bank.
AU Small Finance Bank is targeting to double its balance sheet size to Rs 2.5 lakh crore in three years, helped by the acquisition of Fincare SFB and the growing consumption trend in the country. The bank earlier this week operationalized Authorised Dealer (AD-I) license with foray in forex with 'AU Remit' and Cross-border Trade with 'AU DigiTrade'. "We are targeting a growth of 25 per cent in the next three years and we should double the balance sheet size to Rs 2.5 lakh crore by the time we complete one decade of existence," AU Small Finance Bank managing director Sanjay Agarwal told PTI. The bank started its business in 2017, with a balance sheet size of Rs 10,000 crore, which has now crossed Rs 1.25 lakh crore. Human resources has gone up from just 3,000 to 46,000 during the same period, he said. At the same time, the branch network has increased from 300 to 2,400 touch points currently, he said. Pointing out that banks are formed by the people and for the people, he said, the
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MFs pull out Rs 2,500 crore in March from state-owned lenders; replough Rs 4,900 crore into private sector peers
HDFC Bank news: On April 20, HDFC Bank reported net profit of Rs 16,512 crore, up 37 per cent year-on-year, but barely 1 per cent quarter-on-quarter
Stock market highlights on April 22: Among sectors, the Nifty PSU Bank index rallied 3.3 per cent, the Nifty Realty 1.12 per cent, and the Nifty Pharma index 1.5 per cent
Stocks to Watch on Monday, April 22, 2024: Reliance Industries, Rallis India, Mahindra Logistics, Hatsun Agro Product, and Tejas Networks will announce their March quarter earnings today
The one-time ex-gratia payment is a way to motivate the young workforce, said HDFC Bank CEO
HDFC Bank Q4 result: Boosted by trading gains and robust credit performance, HDFC Bank's net interest income rose 24.5% in the March quarter, with net profit reaching Rs 16,512 crore
Despite the gains on Friday, both indices finished the week in red for the first time in three weeks. The Sensex fell 1.6 per cent this week, and the Nifty 50 declined 1.7 per cent
HDFC Bank Q4FY24 result preview: According to Nomura, HDFC Bank's net profit may grow 40 per cent Q-o-Q to Rs 23,000 crore during the quarter
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