The bank had initiated recovery actions to recover dues from the borrower in August 2016, it said
Strategies have been drawn to ensure that the NPAs are reduced in a structured manner by taking help of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and other means
The buyback activity would be spread over quarters and would be done in small tranches for reasons of absorption
Recently, the lender sold a commercial building for Rs 9 billion, taking the total non-core asset sales to over Rs 41 billion in FY18
According to a BSE filing by IDBI Bank, the RBI imposed a Rs 30 million penalty on it for non-compliance of IRAC norms
It has been trying to offload non-core assets and investments, to raise money for meeting the Basel-III norms on capital adequacy
There are a total of 41 others accused in these three separate FIRs, says CBI
For this purpose, the bank has appointed an external expert who was very much associated with the audit reforms in the PSBs
IDBI Bank has been selling non-core investments through 2017-18
The stock surged 14% to Rs 91.50, hit a fresh 52-week high on the NSE in intra-day trade on back of heavy volumes
Much of IDBI Bank's special status was stripped off a few years ago when govt said the rank of the IDBI MD and CEO would be same as those of other banks
The stock surged 8% to Rs 80.75 with combined 63.61 million equity shares changed hands on the BSE and NSE.
Expects improvement in capital position and stable asset quality
Avenue Supermarts, Britannia Industries, Hindustan Zinc, Mindtree, Venky's India and Sunflag Iron & Steel Company were hit their respective record highs.
The stock rallied 6% to Rs 74.60 on BSE, its highest level since May 18, 2017, on back of heavy volumes.
The bank had raised about Rs 21 billion through auction of non-core assets between April and December 2017
IDBI Bank had said that the intention to sell stake was to mobilise funds by existing non-core business
The global ratings firm had also downgraded the bank's local and foreign currency bank deposit ratings to B1 from Ba2
The IDBI Bank employees went on two-day strike in October demanding revision of wages
With capital infusion from the government and a turnaround plan in place, IDBI Bank expects stability to return to its balance sheet by March 2019.The government-owned bank, in the red due to large provisioning for loans gone bad, posted a net loss of Rs 198 crore in the quarter ended September (Q2), from a profit of Rs 56 crore in the same period of 2017. The net loss for the June quarter (Q1) was Rs 858 crore.However, operating profit rose by 81.7 per cent to Rs 2,798 crore in Q2 from a year before (it was Rs 877 crore in Q1). M K Jain, managing director, said the growth in operating profit was expected to be 20-22 per cent for the financial year ending March 2018.In September, the bank hired The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to accelerate its turnaround plan and improve financial performance. IDBI is supposed to focus on four areas -- revenue enhancement, cost control & reduction, asset productivity and overall programme management, in consultation with BCG.Executives said the