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State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Monday said the board of the bank has given green signal for raising Rs 7,500 crore through Qualified Institutions Placement (QIP)/Follow-on Public Offer (FPO) during 2024-25. The decision in this respect was taken in a meeting held on January 29. The board gave nod for raising of equity capital for an amount aggregating up to Rs 7,500 crore in one or more tranches during FY2024-25 through Qualified Institutions Placement (QIP)/Follow-on Public Offer (FPO) or any other permitted mode or a combination, PNB said in a regulatory filing. The fund raising should be done in such a manner that the shareholding of the Government of India does not fall below 52 per cent, it added.
A PNB executive said there is intense competition for mobilising resources for which banks have and are raising deposit rates, increasing the cost of funds
State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Tuesday said it has posted a 13.5 per cent growth in advances to Rs 9.72 lakh crore for the December quarter. Total advances stood at Rs 8.56 lakh crore at the end of the third quarter of the last financial year, PNB said in a regulatory filing. Another public sector lender Bank of Maharashtra (BoM) in a separate filing said it saw a 20.28 per cent increase in loan growth to Rs 1.88 lakh crore as against Rs 1.56 lakh crore in the third quarter of the previous fiscal. The Pune-based lender recorded a 17.90 per cent improvement in deposit growth at Rs 2.45 lakh crore as compared to Rs 2.08 lakh crore at the end of December 2022. At the same time PNB's deposits rose a tad lower at 9.4 per cent to Rs 13.23 lakh crore during the quarter from Rs 12.10 lakh crore in the year-ago period, it said. As a result, the total business of the bank increased 11.1 per cent to Rs 22.95 lakh crore at the end of December 31, 2023, it added.
Options open for institutional placement, follow-on issue
Punjab National Bank on Thursday said its board has approved a proposal to raise Rs 7,500 crore capital through QIP or FPO. The fundraising exercise will be done in one or more tranches during the next financial year, the state-owned bank said in a late-evening regulatory filing. The board of directors, during a meeting on Thursday, approved the proposal for raising equity capital for an amount aggregating up to Rs 7,500 crore in one or more tranches during 2024-25 through Qualified Institutional Placement (QIP) or Follow-on Public Offering (FPO) or any other permitted mode or a combination, it said.
The Reserve Bank on Friday said it has imposed a Rs 72 lakh penalty on state-owned Punjab National Bank and a Rs 30 lakh penalty on private sector Federal Bank for non-compliance with certain regulatory norms. It has also imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Mercedes-Benz Financial Services India Private Ltd (formerly known as Daimler Financial Services India Private Ltd) for non-compliance with certain provisions of the Know Your Customer (KYC) Direction, 2016. The penalty on Punjab National Bank has been imposed for non-compliance with certain provisions related to 'interest rate on advances' and 'customer service in banks', Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a release. Federal Bank has been penalised for contravention of certain provisions of KYC norms, the central bank said in another release. The RBI also said a monetary penalty of Rs 13.38 lakh has been imposed on Kosamattam Finance Ltd, Kottayam, for non-compliance with certain provisions of the 'Non-Banking Financial Company
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For the quarter ended September 2023, PNB reported a solid 327 327 per cent YoY surge in net profit, while Canara Bank's net profit grew 42.8 per cent.
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PNB Q2 results: The bank's gross non-performing assets (NPAs) fell to 6.96% as of September 30, as compared to 7.73% in the previous quarter
PNB saw a rise in advances to Rs 1,308,719 crore, marking a 9.70 per cent increase from Rs 1,193,501 crore in the second quarter of FY24 compared to the same period in FY23
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Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Thursday said it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Tata Motors Finance Solutions for co-sourcing of commercial vehicles. The co-sourcing arrangement will provide simple and seamless financing solutions to fleet owners and commercial vehicle operators while expanding and scaling MSME businesses across geographies, PNB said in a statement. The memorandum of understanding was signed by PNB Managing Director Atul Kumar Goel and Tata Motors Finance Solutions Ltd MD Samrat Gupta.
The capital adequacy of the bank is at 15.54 per cent as against the requirement of 11.5 per cent
PNB's net NPAs also declined to 1.98% in the June quarter from 2.72% in the previous quarter
State-owned Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Thursday announced the launch of a virtual branch, PNB Metaverse. It is a virtual branch of the bank, which will deliver a unique experience of banking to existing and new customers who can now explore the bank's products and services such as bank deposits, retail/MSME loans, digital products, women/senior citizens, 'Do It Yourself' and government flagship schemes, PNB said in a statement. PNB has developed the Bank's Metaverse Branch, where its esteemed customers will get exclusive access to its virtual environment from the comfort of their home or office through their mobile phones and laptops, it said. In addition, the bank will offer an immersive 3D experience to the customers while performing traditional banking activities through their digital avatars, it said. In this new phase of the internet, which evolves from a disparate collection of sites and apps into a persistent 3D environment, where moving from work to a social platform is
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State-owned Punjab National Bank on Friday said it has raised Rs 3,090 crore from Basel III compliant Tier-II capital Bonds to fund business growth. These bonds would carry a coupon rate of 7.74 per cent per annum, PNB said in a regulatory filing. The issue closed on June 27, and allotment of bonds was made on Friday, it added.