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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.

RBL Bank's board approves raising Rs 3,000 crore to fund business growth

RBL Bank on Monday said its board has approved raising up to Rs 3,000 crore to fund the lender's business growth. The fund raising will be subject to the approval of the shareholders, the bank said in a regulatory filing. Besides, the board has approved issuance of 1.75 crore additional equity stock options exercisable into equivalent number of equity shares fully paid up of Rs 10 each, in addition to residual/remaining options which remain ungranted under ESOP 2018. As per the filing, the bank's board also cleared the appointment of two independent directors -- Gopal Jain, Managing Partner and Founder Gaja Capital, and Sivakumar Gopalan, Faculty of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay.

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RBL Bank offloads over 12% stake in Kilburn Engg since May for Rs 17 cr

RBL Bank on Wednesday said it has offloaded over 12 per cent stake in Kilburn Engineering since May for a total consideration of over Rs 17 crore. The private sector lender had acquired 67,50,000 equity shares of Kilburn Engineering (Kilburn) under a debt recast plan. This represented 19.67 per cent share capital of the company, as part of conversion of loans outstanding under debt restructuring plan by RBL Bank in February 2021, and subject to lock-in for one year. "We now wish to inform...the bank has further sold 22,00,000 equity shares representing 6.41 per cent of the paid-up share capital of Kilburn Engineering," RBL Bank said in a regulatory filing. RBL Bank said the sale transactions happened through stock exchanges at prevailing market price during May 17 to August 17, 2022. On August 12, it had sold 7,07,468 shares (2.06 per cent stake) and offloaded 12,42,532 shares (3.62 per cent) on August 11. RBL Bank said the sale percentage crossed 2 per cent on August 11; 4 per ce

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RBL Bank reports Q1 net profit at Rs 201 crore; asset quality improves

The bank's net profit rose 1.7 per cent from Rs 197.83 crore in Q4FY22

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RBL Bank posts net profit of Rs 201 cr in Q1, asset quality improves

The bank's provisions and contingencies fell to Rs 253 crore as compared to Rs 1,384 crore in Q1FY22

Private bank shares under pressure; AU SFB, Bandhan, RBL Bank tank up to 9%

As of 10:09 am, the S&P BSE Private Bank and Nifty Private Bank index were down 1 per cent each, as compared to 0.6 per cent decline on the benchmarks, S&P BSE Sensex and Nifty50 index.

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The story behind the choice of RBL Bank CEO

Does this smack of the regulator's lack of confidence in the bank's board?

R Subramaniakumar: 'Bad loan expert' in the hot seat at crisis-hit RBL Bank

His appointment raises questions because ex-PSB bankers have historically taken over as heads of financial institutions with weak asset quality and governance

Bank does not foresee asset quality challenges, rumours baseless: RBL Bank

The bank's gross non-performing assets (NPAs) and net NPAs were 4.4% and 1.3%, respectively, at the end of the March quarter, with a provision coverage ratio of 70.4%

Asset quality not the criterion for transition: RBL Bank's Subramaniakumar

We need to continue with the strength the bank has leveraged in the past decade, Subramaniakumar said

Veteran banker Subramaniakumar to join as MD & CEO of RBL Bank from Jun 24

Banking sector veteran R Subramaniakumar, with over 40 years of experience, will take charge of private sector RBL Bank from June 24, replacing the interim MD & CEO Rajeev Ahuja. Ahuja took charge as the interim MD & CEO of the bank after the sudden ouster of the then chief Vishwavir Ahuja in late December 2021, who was sent on leave with immediate effect. Subramaniakumar had in past served as the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer (MD & CEO) of Chennai-based public sector lender Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) and also as the Executive Director (ED) of the bank. Besides, he was also the ED at Indian Bank and held various positions in the banking industry. He was instrumental in the transformation at Delhi-based Punjab National Bank (PNB). Also, he served as a board of director of PNB's Bhutan joint venture Druk PNB. The search committee constituted to identify the MD & CEO for the bank ran an exhaustive process along with Egon Zehnder and recommended the name .

RBL Bank tumbles 18% on heavy volumes; stock hits record low

The Reserve Bank of India has approved R Subramaniakumar's appointment as the managing director & chief executive officer of the private sector lender.

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RBI approves former IOB chief Subramaniakumar as CEO of RBL Bank

Industry veteran started his career with Punjab National Bank and his new role is for three years.

RBL Bank raises $100 mn from Basel III-compliant unsecured tier 2 bonds

RBL Bank on Tuesday said it has raised $100 million (about Rs 770 crore) through its first issuance of Basel III-compliant unsecured and subordinated tier 2 bonds.

RBL Bank's Q4 net profit doubles to Rs 164.7 crore, NII rises 25%

RBL Bank's consolidated post tax net profit more than doubled to Rs 164.77 crore in the March quarter, mainly due to a low base in the year-ago period. The city-based private sector lender reported a net profit of Rs 197.83 crore on a standalone basis in the January-March period as against Rs 75.34 crore in the year-ago period. In FY22, it reported a loss of Rs 74.74 crore whereas it had a net profit of Rs 507.78 crore in 2020-21. For the reporting quarter, its core Net Interest Income (NII) grew 25 per cent to Rs 1,131 crore, despite a tepid 2 per cent advances growth while the Net Interest Margin (NIM) widened sharply to 5.04 per cent. Its head of strategy Jaideep Iyer on Thursday explained that the NII growth came on the back of a recognition of an interest income on restructured assets which was not being done earlier. The NIM trajectory will also come down to 4.5 per cent level, he said. The other income declined 7 per cent to Rs 511 crore, which was attributed by Iyer to a ..