HDFC Bank sold 23,11,000 equity shares of face value of Rs 10 each fully paid up held by the bank in CDSL through the secondary market route on the NSE
Will raise issuance to 500,000 credit cards per month beginning February 2022
HDFC Bank is looking at winning back the market share by number of cards in the next one year, a senior official said on Monday. The largest private sector lender by assets was allowed to issue new credit cards by the RBI last week, over eight months after being banned from doing so due to concerns over repeated technological outages. Parag Rao, its group head for payments and consumer finance, digital banking and IT told reporters that the bank has set some milestones for itself as it seeks to re-enter the market. The first is to achieve monthly new credit card sales to 3 lakh, the number right before the ban in November 2020, Rao said, adding that the same will be achieved in three months. Two quarters after that, it aims to take the monthly new card sales to 5 lakh a month, Rao said, adding that in three to four quarters from now, it plans to regain the market share by number of cards. Rao added that during the ban, the bank lost its market share by number of cards but was able
Whether it is net profit, fee income or bad loans, public sector banks have put up a better show in the June quarter than their private peers
While HDFC Bank will drive merchant partnerships to whom Paytm will offer its existing Android PoS devices, the two will also jointly launch a co-branded retail PoS product
MD and CEO Nitin Chugh of Ujjivan Small Finance Bank has resigned from the bank and his tenure will come to an end on September 30
C Parthasarathy was arrested for defaulting on a loan taken from the IndusIndbank in 2019 and diverting the fund to other bank accounts
'I am confident that we will regain and grow our customer market share and revenue market share in the time to come,' says HDFC Bank CEO
ICICI Bank was been the biggest gainer in the December-June period
Market sources said the response was strong with demand in the region of $4 billion-$4.5 billion
Earlier in the day, the 30-share index scaled mount 56,000 and hit a fresh record high of 56,118. The Nifty50, on the other hand, hit a new high of 16,702
Once the hurdle mark is decisively conquered on the higher side, the upside rally may see a new all-time high
However, RBI's ban on the bank introducing new digital initiatives will continue
Zydus Cadila received tentative approval from the US health regulator to market Lenalidomide capsules used for the treatment of various types of cancers
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Ban on Digital 2.0 programme continues; bank ready with aggressive plan
However, RBI's ban on the bank introducing new digital initiatives will continue, a source told Reuters
The bank is expected to raise up to $1 billion from dollar-denominated bonds
Country's largest lender State Bank of India has already raised capital through AT1 bonds from global markets
Country's largest private sector lender HDFC Bank, which has a focus on the MSME sector, is hiring 500 more relationship managers this fiscal as the bank is expanding its coverage to 575 districts, a senior banker has said. The headcount addition will take the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) vertical strength to 2,500. As of June end, its employee strength stood around 1.23 lakh. The bank's MSME vertical covers 545 districts now with dedicated relationship managers and supervisors, which will be expanded to 575 districts or more by the end of this fiscal. "As we are expanding our MSME footprint to 575 districts from 545 now, we are hiring over 500 more to the 2,000-strong headcount at the MSME vertical this fiscal year. This should take the overall headcount at the vertical to a little over 2,500," Sumant Rampal, senior executive vice-president for business banking & healthcare finance, told PTI on Monday. After reclassification and the resultant tagging of wholesaler ..