The move comes as Sri Lanka grapples with its worst economic crisis since its independence, triggered by a shortage of dollars
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Priced at three-month SOFR plus 130 bps; largest such ESG loan by bank in Asia-Pacific; to also use proceeds for affordable housing, SHG lending
The funds will be used to further lend to microfinance institutions and self-help groups, a senior official at SBI, who declined to be named, told Reuters
Consistent with that strategy, we feel that "clean mobility" is going to be a space that will create growth
While loans to this segment have been growing fast, defaults have thus far been few
Other than SBI, Indian Bank, ICICI Bank and Indian Overseas Bank have been roped in for inward and outward remittances while Axis Bank and DBS India will facilitate inward remittances only
Bonds allocated at coupon of 8.2% with call option on Feb 2033
Bank of Baroda and Indian Overseas Bank have increased their marginal cost of fund-based lending rates (MCLR), following a hike in the interest rates on loans and deposits by their largest public sector peer SBI. The latest hikes in the interest rates come days after the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on February 8 increased the borrowing costs by 25 basis points (bps). The RBI's six-member Monetary Policy Committee had raised the benchmark repurchase or repo rate to 6.50 per cent in its latest bi-monthly policy review. This was the sixth straight increase in interest rates since May last year, and the cumulative hike now totals 250 bps. State-owned Bank of Baroda (BoB) has increased its MCLR by 5 bps across all tenors from February 12. The bank has revised one-year MCLR to 8.55 per cent from 8.5 per cent. The overnight, one-month and three-month MCLRs stand at 7.9, 8.2 and 8.3 per cent, respectively, according to its website. Another state-run lender Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) has .
Lender announces decision after central bank last week raised the repo rate to 6.50%
Following the RBI MPC's repo rate hike earlier this month, many banks like Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, and Punjab National Bank have also hiked their key lending rates
Also wants LIC and SBI probed for participating in Adani Enterprises FPO; says investors lost Rs 10 trillion following 50% decline in prices of group firm stocks
This is expected to free up some cash for Vodafone Idea which needs to pay urgently to Indus Towers, Nokia and Ericsson
Three Adani Group companies have pledged additional shares for State Bank of India, days after a scathing report by a US short-seller led to over USD 100 billion loss in its market value, as per stock exchange filings. Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), Adani Transmission Ltd and Adani Green Energy pledged shares to SBICAP Trustee Company, a unit of India's biggest lender, SBI. As many as 75 lakh more shares of APSEZ have been pledged, taking the total to 1 per cent of all shares with SBICAP. In the case of Adani Green, pledge of 60 lakh more shares took the total to 1.06 per cent. Pledge of 13 lakh more shares of Adani Transmission took the total to 0.55 per cent, the filings showed. The additional pledges are part of a USD 300 million letter of credit - issued by a bank to another bank as a guarantee for payments made - provided by SBI for Adani Group's Carmichael coal mining project in Australia.
SBICAP Trustee said it had received the pledges in its capacity as "security trustee" of the lenders of Adani Enterprises
The foreign office advances were up by 21.47 per cent year on year (YoY) basis to Rs 4.86 trillion in December 2022 from Rs 4.0 trillion in December 2021
State Bank of India (SBI) on Thursday inaugurated its third specialised branch for startups at Gurugram to provide all banking services required by them under one roof. Gurugram houses the third highest number of unicorns in the nation after Bengaluru and Mumbai, SBI said in a statement. Speaking on the occasion, SBI Chairman Dinesh Khara said the primary aim of this branch is to provide end-to-end support to startups at every stage of their journey, starting from the formation of the entity till their IPOs and FPOs. Apart from regular banking services to startups, the branch will also act as a one stop shop in providing investment banking, treasury/forex, advisory and other ancillary financial services through the bank's subsidiaries, it said. Besides startups, the bank also intends to cater to the requirements of private equity (PE), venture capital (VC) and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). Leveraging its locational advantage, the startup branch in Gurugram has entered into
The bonds, which are likely to receive a rating of AA+, may go up for bidding on February 20 with issuance scheduled for the next day
CreditSights pointed out that the country's largest lender has a provision reserves buffer of around 338 billion rupees ($4.08 billion), or around 1% of net loans
These loans will be in continuation of the debt facility Tata Group received following the acquisition of Air India