This is the second time in recent months that the bank is looking to raise funds through this route
The Basel-III-compliant debt instrument would have a coupon (interest rate) of nine per cent payable annually
Country's largest lender to sell 1,000 properties
Four foreign banks in fray for mandate
Candidates can check the result on SBI's official website. The interview call letters for successful candidates should be issued August 24, 2016 onwards
State Bank of India's planned merger with its associate banks is set to make it one the world's top 50 in terms in terms of assets. This, however, might not suffice to make it a high performer on Dalal Street, going by global experience. Globally, there seems to be a negative correlation between a bank's size (in assets) and its stock performance.Most of the world's biggest banks in terms of assets -- Mitsubishi UFJ, JPMorgan Chase, BNP Paribas, Bank of America, Citi Group, Deutsche Bank, Barclays -- have been gross underperformers on the bourses in both the past year and three years. Most of them witnessed a decline in their share price and market capitalisation, despite a global rally in equities (see chart).For example, the stock price of Mitsubushi UFJ - currently the world's top bank outside China, in terms of assets -- is down 40 per cent over the past 12 months and gave a negative annualised return of 1.4 per cent in the past three years. At end of March, it had total assets of
Does SBI really benefit from the merger or is the government trying to sweep the dust under SBI's carpet?
Bank on better footing than most PSU peers on asset quality, capitalisation and growth parameters
RBI granted in-principle approval to RIL as a promoter in September 2015 for the setting up of the payments bank
The new initiative was launched on Friday on the occasion of 61st State Bank Day
The interviews were held to replace VG Kannan, who is looks after associates and subsidiaries at the bank and retires on June 30
Chairman says there is no dearth of capital to fund infrastructure development, but investments must be handled with 'transparency'
Bank's Chairman stresses on having appropriate resolution mechanisms to deal with the issue
Lower proportion of loans likely to turn into bad assets and better capitalisation are key positives