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Regional Rural Banks losing ground to private banks amid tech challenges

The increasing presence of private sector banks has made the situation more challenging as RRBs fight the battle with outdated tools while other banks have advanced technology and basic infrastructure

FM Nirmala Sitharaman, PSB chiefs likely to talk NPAs and cybersecurity

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold the review meet on August 19

After strengthening capital, RRBs to focus on product diversification

The top priority will be upgrading the technology platform for digital banking for retaining existing customers and attracting new ones in rural areas

Employee associations demand merger of RRBs with respective sponsor banks

There are now 43 RRBs sponsored by 12 scheduled commercial banks with around 22,000 branches, operating approximately 30 crore deposit accounts and 3 crore loan accounts across 702 districts

Regional rural banks merger unlikely to happen in current financial year

The exemption dispensation from prior scrutiny and approval of CCI would be available for five years, the Corporate Affairs Ministry (MCA) said

Focus on digital capability upgrade, FM Sitharaman tells rural banks

The Centre has a 50 per cent stake in RRBs while sponsor banks and state governments own 35 per cent and 15 per cent, respectively

Nirmala Sitharaman asks RRBs to remove duplication of PMJDY accounts

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Wednesday asked Regional Rural Banks to make efforts to remove duplication of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts. During the review meeting with heads of RRBs, the finance minister emphasised the need to increase penetration under Pradhan Mantri MUDRA Yojana (PMMY) and financial inclusion and stated that a roadmap has to be prepared for completing the designated activities in a timebound manner. The minister urged the RRBs to remove duplication of PMJDY accounts and facilitate storage facility for apple growers particularly in J&K and Himachal Pradesh, an official statement said. During the review meeting of Regional Rural Banks of Northern Region here, the Finance Minister emphasised on digital capability upgradation of RRBs and instructed MD and CEO Punjab National Bank (PNB) to ensure that all RRBs by the bank to acquire digital onboarding capability by November 1, 2023. The Centre has 50 per cent stake in RRBs while sponsor ..

Centre likely to infuse capital in certain regional rural banks in FY24

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a meeting with chairpersons and senior officials of RRBs from the Northern region in New Delhi on Wednesday

Improve CASA ratio, leverage account aggregator framework: FM to RRBs

During the meeting, discussions revolved around financial performance of RRBs

Sponsor banks need to proactively handhold RRBs for tech adoption: DFS

In FY22 and FY23, the Centre had decided to infuse Rs 10,890-crore into RRBs

Savings deposit growth in Q2 slumps to 9.4% YoY while FDs gain traction

Growth of money kept in current accounts moderated to 8.8% this September, from 17.5% a year ago

The irrelevance of regional rural banks

Scope of their survival is diminishing. Even as the overall business of rural financial institutions has generally been looking up, they are struggling to scale up business volumes

Unprofitable, growing bad assets: The tale of existential crisis at RRBs

They are mostly loss-making, with growing bad assets so the agricultural sector prefers commercial banks

Govt issues draft guidelines for RRBs listing; minimum net worth Rs 300 cr

In a bid to enable regional rural banks (RRBs) to raise resources by listing on stock exchanges, the government has issued draft guidelines that set certain basic criteria, including net worth of at least Rs 300 crore during the previous three years. They should also have capital adequacy above the regulatory minimum level of 9 per cent in each of the preceding three years. The RRBs should have a track record of profitability and earned operating profit of minimum Rs 15 crore for at least three out of the previous five years, according to the draft guidelines issued by the finance ministry recently. Besides, there should not be any accumulated loss and the lender should have given return on equity of minimum 10 per cent in three out of the preceding five years, it said. As per the draft norms, the responsibility of identifying suitable lenders for issuing initial public offering (IPO) has been left with the respective sponsor banks. The sponsor bank would take into account the ...

Rajasthan govt approves financial assistance of Rs 100 crore for MSMEs

This scheme was announced in the state Budget 2022-23 to promote micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and give loans on easy terms for small businesses and investors

Centre's fund infusion into RRBs to hinge on viability plan execution

Financially-strong RRBs have been sent reminders to explore listing of their shares on the exchanges to raise capital

Govt starts work to make regional banks viable; DFS to organise workshop

The government is also nudging operationally sound RRBs to explore listing on the stock exchanges, creating additional sources to meet their regulatory capital requirement

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The Centre's recent move to impose GST on services rendered by the markets regulator, Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi), has rattled FPIs

Centre asks IBA to ready EASE-like plan for regional rural banks

The banks' lobby group has been asked to assist with the preparation of the viability plan for RRBs

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