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Rupee's depreciation due to strengthening of dollar index: SBI chairman

The Indian rupee has weakened essentially due to the strengthening of the dollar index but it is holding well as compared to currencies of other emerging market economies, State Bank of India Chairman Dinesh Khara said. Depreciation of the rupee is a cause of concern, especially for a country which has significant imports, Khara told PTI in an interview on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank here on Friday. The rupee closed at 82.19 against the US dollar on Friday amid a firm greenback overseas and sliding crude oil prices. At the interbank foreign exchange market, the local currency opened at 82.26 and witnessed a high of 82.12 and a low of 82.43 before settling at 82.19. The dollar index, which gauges the greenback's strength against a basket of six currencies, advanced 0.56 per cent to 112.99. The Indian rupee is doing pretty well, Khara said. "Better than us was only Indonesia, which is generally a commodity economy and Br

SBI lines up NPAs over Rs 746 cr including Sintex BAPL for sale in Oct-Nov

The State Bank of India (SBI) has lined up various non-performing assets up for sale this month and the next, including the fraud account of Sintex BAPL, to recover over Rs 746 crore. In an auction scheduled for November 4, SBI will put up NPAs for sale to asset reconstruction companies (ARCs)/ financial institutions (FIs), banks or Non-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs). The auction of NPAs will include accounts of Sintex BAPL with an outstanding of Rs 197.74 crore; Surat Hazira NH6 Tollway Pvt Ltd of exposure of Rs 335.54 crore and Shreebhav Polyweaves Pvt Ltd (Rs 20.20 crore). In case of Sintex BAPL, SBI said only ARCs are eligible in the e-auction as it is a fraud account. The outstanding of Rs 197.74 crore against the company includes bank guarantee of Rs 6.10 crore. The company's business is manufacturing injection moulded plastic components for the automotive industry. SBI said the proposed acquisition of these assets should not be funded and backed by ...

SBI raises Rs 4,000 crore via tier-2 bonds at cutoff rate of 7.57%

Lender claims overwhelming response from investors, with bids of Rs 9,647 crore; issue oversubscribed 5x against base size of Rs 2,000 crore

State Bank of India may sell Rs 4,000 crore tier-2 bond next week

Canara Bank raised Rs 2,000 crore worth of AT1 bonds at a rate of 7.99 per cent, taking its total issuance of such bonds so far in the year to Rs 4,000 crore

Jammu and Kashmir to Kerala, SBI executives are at every corner office

At least three PSBs have former SBI executives as MD & CEO at present - Sanjiv Chadha of Bank of Baroda, Partha Pratim Sengupta of Indian Overseas Bank and Soma Sankara Prasad of UCO Bank.

SBI planning to invoke personal guarantees of Bajaj Hindusthan promoters

The company owes Rs 4,771 crore to banks and has already availed two debt restructuring schemes, leading to massive haircuts taken by lenders

Lenders agree to RNTL-Reliance Industries' takeover deal: Report

Two years after the deal was approved by the NCLT, banks led by the State Bank of India (SBI) have agreed to issue a no objection certificate (NOC) to Mukesh Ambani-owned Reliance Industries

Top Headlines: Common charger for all mobiles; banks rush to woo depositors

At a time when growth in bank credit is outstripping that of deposits, several lenders, including the country's largest bank, State Bank of India (SBI), have raised deposit rates ahead of the festival

SBI hikes MCLR for various tenures by 20 bps; third hike in three months

SBI's MCLR rate for overnight to three-month has increased to 7.35 per cent from 7.15 per cent, while six-month MCLR has increased to 7.65 per cent from 7.45 per cent

Top Headlines: Healthcare in PM's I-Day speech, SBI HR subsidiary, and more

In his ninth Independence Day speech from the Red Fort, PM Narendra Modi is expected to devote a considerable amount of time to ongoing and proposed initiatives in the health care sector

SBI reports 6.7% dip in standalone net profit at Rs 6,068 cr in Jun qtr

Net interest income of the lender grew 13 per cent YoY to Rs 31,196 crore in Q1FY23

SBI Card net profit more than doubles to Rs 627 crore in June quarter

SBI card shares of the lender were trading 4.2 per cent higher than the previous day's close at Rs 926.1

YES Bank's deal with Carlyle, Advent on $1 bn stake investment gathers pace

Carlyle's top executives and Advent's leaders in a series of meetings with Yes Bank and SBI's senior management, and RBI officials this week decided the contours of the investment plan

Centre should privatise all PSBs, except State Bank of India: NCAER

First 2 banks for privatisation should be those with good asset quality and low NPA, says the report

SBI to scale up gold loan business, start premium banking services

SBI agriculture cold loan portfolio increased to Rs 73,601 crore in FY22 from Rs 66,878 crore in FY2021 and personal segment, the gold loans book expanded by 9.89 per cent YoY to Rs 23,063 crore

Govt dept to collaborate with SBI to create integrated pension portal

The Centre's Department of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare (DoPPW) will collaborate with the State Bank of India (SBI) to create an integrated pension portal to enhance ease of living of pensioners, according to an official statement on Tuesday. Sessions on pension policy reforms and digitisation regarding the disbursement of pensions to central government pensioners were organised with the objective of updating SBI field functionaries during the two-day bankers' awareness programme in Udaipur, Rajasthan. Special sessions were organised on income tax matters related to pensioners as well as digital means of submitting annual life certificates, said the statement by the Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions. It was decided that immediate efforts are needed for the creation of an integrated pension portal by linking the existing portals of the DoPPW and the SBI to provide seamless services to pensioners, it said. Face authentication technology for digital life ...

Indian PSBs plan to exit Hong Kong as strict regulations, Covid woes pinch

State Bank of India (SBI) will likely be the only PSB in Hong Kong, alongside private sector banks ICICI and HDFC

Retired SBI senior executive Natarajan Sundar joins NARCL as MD CEO

Karnam Sekar, Malvika Sinha named independent directors; NARCL Board now has 5 nominees from shareholder banks, one more independent director likely to join soon

SBI posts record quarterly profit of Rs 9,114 cr, misses Street estimates

The bank's profit growth was mainly due to improvement in its net interest margins and a sharp decline in loan loss provisions

State Bank of India to raise $2 billion through overseas bonds in FY23

The executive committee of the Bank's central board will meet on May 10 to examine the status and decide on long term fund raising in single/multiple tranches, the bank informed BSE