Khara said the accounting profession has contributed to identifying the quality of assets that are sitting in the books of various banks
Electoral bonds worth Rs 10,246 crore have been sold by the State Bank of India (SBI) since the instrument was launched in March 2018. Electoral bonds have been pitched as an alternative to cash donations made to political parties as part of efforts to bring transparency to political funding. In an RTI reply, SBI said the majority of these bonds were of one crore while less than 10 per cent of subscriptions were of lower denominations -- ten lakh, one lakh, ten thousand and one thousand. About 93.5 per cent of total bonds sold were in the denomination of Rs 1 crore, according to an RTI filed by Chandra Shekhar Gaur. Only 0.25 per cent in value terms were from one lakh, ten thousand and one thousand denominations. SBI has been authorised to issue and encash electoral bonds through 29 authorised branches. The authorised SBI branches include those in Lucknow, Shimla, Dehradun, Kolkata, Guwahati, Chennai, Patna, New Delhi, Chandigarh, Srinagar, Gandhinagar, Bhopal, Raipur, and Mumbai.
State Bank of India and leading private-sector banks have largely addressed their asset quality challenges, and their profitability is improving more sharply than the system's, S&P added
'Sectors seeing a pickup range from telecom and power to roads, ports and airports, while lending to non-bank finance companies has also picked up strongly'
State Bank of India has signed a 150 million euro (Rs 1,240 crore) loan agreement with the German development bank KfW for funding solar projects. The long-term loan, under the Indo-German solar partnership, will facilitate new and upcoming capacities in the solar sector and further contribute to the country's goals announced during the COP26, the bank said in a statement on Wednesday. The successful closure of the phase-1 under the solar partnership- promotion of solar/PV between SBI and KfW, paves the way for the current phase-2 in our partnership with this German lender, Ashwini Tewari, a managing director at SBI said. With this facility, he added, the bank has taken another step towards sustainable financing arrangements for meeting the nation's renewable capacity goals and upholding environmental and social standards. In 2015, New Delhi and Berlin had signed a memorandum of understanding to foster solar energy through technical as well as financial cooperation. Through this ..
Speaking of weak deposit growth being seen across the banking system, Swaminathan said it would require banks to be watchful
State Bank of India (SBI) on Tuesday said the government has nominated Vivek Joshi to its board following the cessation of the previous director. The Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, in a letter dated November 15, 2022, has nominated Vivek Joshi (secretary, Ministry of Finance) as a director on the central board of directors of State Bank of India, the bank said in a regulatory filing. Following the cessation of Sanjay Malhotra as the government nominee director, the nomination of Joshi comes into immediate effect, until further orders.
This condition is not satisfied merely by the trip starting and ending in India
Amidst liquidity tightening and a decadal high credit growth of over 18 per cent and deposit growth falling way behind, a report has warned that banks are not adequately pricing their risks from both asset and liabilities sides. Liquidity crunch is primarily because the Reserve Bank has been sucking out funds from the system as it fights to tame inflation which has been much above its band of 4 per cent for the past 10 months of the year. This has prompted the RBI to frontload its inflation fight by increasing the policy rates by 190 basis points to pre-pandemic levels since the war on Ukraine began. The average net durable liquidity injected into the banking system in April 2022 was Rs 8.3 lakh crore, which is nearly a third of that now at Rs 3 lakh crore. Atop this, the government has spent a large part of its cash balances in the Diwali week, and as a result the net LAF (liquidity adjust facility) in the system, which was hitherto negative, has improved of late. Bonus payments by
Sources in the know say that this 70 per cent stake held by RIL will be transferred to JFS. SBI will continue to own the rest of the 30 per cent in RPB
Analysts see up to 31 per cent and 17.6 per cent upside in SBI and BoB's stock, respectively, from a one-year perspective
CLOSING BELL: The Nifty PSU Bank index sharply outperformed other indices as it gained 4.5 per cent
SBI hit life-time high, while Bank of Baroda registered a new 52-week high in trades on Monday after the banks reported strong Q2 earnings over the weekend. Here's what the charts indicate ahead.
Shares of State Bank of India (SBI) climbed nearly 5% to an all-time high on Monday after the country's largest lender reported a record quarterly profit
Stocks to watch today: Coal India, Divi's Lab will report the July-September quarter (Q2FY23) results on Monday, November 7; SBI's net profit climbed 73.9 per cent YoY to Rs 13,265 crore in Q2FY23
The fund's month-end assets under management increased to Rs6,714.5 crore in September this year, from Rs1,086.8 crore in September 2019
The lender's net interest income improved 12.83 per cent YoY to Rs 35,183 crore for Q2FY23, against Rs 31,184 crore last year
SBI Q2 preview: SBI's NII is expected to grow less than 10 per cent both, yearly and sequentially, and may come in the range of Rs 32,681 crore to Rs 33.537.6 crore
The stock of state-owned lender surpassed its previous high of Rs 586.1, which it had touched on October 25, 2022
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