Canara Bank plans Rs 1,500-2,000 cr AT1 sale; Axis Bank, too, mulls fundraise
The bonds will have a call option from the fifth year onwards and are rated AA+ by CRISIL, CARE and India Ratings, sources said
In the recent roadshows, the bank's management sounded confident of its ability to deliver both loan growth as well as deposit growth, a report by Macquarie Research said on Monday
HDFC Bank and Precision Biometric India have been selected by the Reserve Bank for testing their 'on tap' retail payments applications under the regulatory sandbox scheme, the central bank said on Monday. Regulatory sandbox (RS) refers to live testing of new products or services in a controlled/test regulatory environment for which regulators may permit certain relaxations for the limited purpose of the testing. The regulatory sandbox allows the regulator, innovators, financial service providers and customers to conduct field tests to collect evidence on the benefits and risks of new products and systems. The RBI announced the opening of the 'On Tap' application facility for the theme 'Retail Payments' under the regulatory sandbox in October last year. The product 'Offline Retail Payments' by HDFC Bank (in partnership with Crunchfish AB) provides the capability for customers and merchants to pay and receive payments in offline mode, the RBI said in a release. The solution aims to
The smart banking lobbies will be set up in 16 districts and will be operational 24 hours and 7 days
RBI data shows that the bank has 28.4% market share in spends as of July, up 190 bps since last August. Pre-embargo, its share was 30.67%
Spends have topped Rs 1 trillion level for five consecutive months now
Four PSU banks have raised Rs 7,800 crore AT-1 bonds so far in FY23 as credit demand booms
Says stock exchange only has jurisdiction over trading members and cannot issue directions to other entities
In a stock exchange filing, HDFC Bank said it will invest between Rs 49.9 crore to Rs 69.9 crore in two tranches to acquire up to 9.94% equity stake in the Fairfax-backed company
The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA), chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Tata Neu customers can apply for the cards on the Tata Neu app and access its key details; Each of the two variants of the card will be available on both RuPay and Visa networks
The rupee has has weakened 7.5% so far in the 2022 calendar year, trading close to a record low of 80.0650 hit last month, as aggressive rate hikes by the Federal Reserve sent the dollar rallying
CLOSING BELL: RIL, ICICI Bank, M&M, SBI, Bajaj twins, and Titan were the stocks that supported the indices
Stocks to watch today: RBL Bank approved fund raise of up to Rs 3,000 crore to fund the lender's business growth; HDFC Bank plans to raise funds worth Rs 2,500 crore through issuance of Tier-1 bonds.
HDFC Bank's Tier-1 bonds could be priced around 7.9-7.95 per cent, sources said
'Vigil Aunty' will create awareness via various social media platforms
Private sector bank major HDFC has opened its first all-women branch in north Kerala region in Kozhikode. The branch, located in Cherootty Road, the hub of traders in the district, will have 4 women bankers. This adds to all-women branches opened by the Bank in southern India and takes forward the bank's inherent values of diversity and inclusion, a statement said here. The branch was inaugurated by city Corporation Mayor Beena Philip at a function here on Wednesday. HDFC Bank is driving diversity and inclusion within the organization with a special focus on enhancing gender diversity, it said. As on March 31, 2022, women constituted 21.7 per cent of the workforce and the target is to increase it to 25 per cent by 2025, the statement said. Sanjeev Kumar, Branch Banking Head, South (Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & Kerala) said the opening of the all-women branch is yet another example of their efforts to take forward gender and diversity initiatives of the bank.
India and other developing countries under the G24 grouping have objected to the proposal of making sovereign commitments to not introduce any future digital services tax like equalisation levy
Latest Reserve Bank of India data showed that in 2021-22, frauds to the tune of Rs 60,414 crore were reported, down 56.28 per cent from Rs 1.38 trillion in 2020-21