MONEY & BANKING


A Banker 16 July 2012
Public sector banks themselves must handle their NPAs by strengthening their recovery departments to minimize the role of borrowers and their cohorts masquerading as experts who derive undue benefits from a well intentioned scheme. This is the concluding part of a four-part series The...

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Microfinance investment vehicles control huge capital and by virtue of that they are often able to channelize cross-border flows significantly. These and related institutions should come under proper regulation, reporting and disclosure requirements I recently read a book, “Confessions...

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A Banker 13 July 2012
Banks have several ways of recovering money from a bad loan but how effective are they. This is second part of a four part series A lending bank is generally capable of detecting the “straws in the wind” about a loan account becoming irregular from its monitoring system and from a number...

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The share of foreign client assets in Swiss banks dropped to 51% of their total asset under management at the end of 2011 New Delhi: Amid growing global scrutiny of overseas funds deposited in Swiss banks, the quantum of total foreign assets managed by them has dipped by nearly 300...

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RBI governor D Subbarao said inflation cannot be controlled without sacrificing some growth that is inevitable but the sacrifice of growth to manage inflation is only in the short term Kozhikode: Ahead of its first quarter monetary policy review on 31st July, the Reserve Bank of India...

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The NBFC— Sustainable Agro-commercial Finance—will focus its activities on farms and farmers only and operate in the rural and semi-urban geographies of the country says Jain Irrigation Mumbai: Micro irrigation major Jain Irrigation Systems (JISL) said on Friday that it has obtained...

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MDT/PTI 06 July 2012
Urban cooperative banks which have less than 5% of NPAs and comply with capital to risk-weighted assets ratio norms may declare dividends without prior permission from the central bank   Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said urban cooperative banks (UCBs) which have less than...

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MDT/PTI 06 July 2012
With rupee losing about 25% in the last one year and increasing redemption costs, several companies with FCCBs on their balance sheets are keen to retire these loans   Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has extended the scheme for corporates to get rid of their overseas loans by...

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MDT/PTI 05 July 2012
There are 969 debtors who defaulted in repaying loans over Rs10 crore each, adding up to around Rs27,000 crore of the Rs1 lakh crore total defaults of nationalised banks   Thane: Over 49 lakh debtors have defaulted in repaying loans totalling more than Rs1 lakh crore from various...

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MDT/PTI 05 July 2012
Recently, a senior Finance Ministry official had said the government expects investment from at least one foreign retail investor from the Gulf region within a month   New Delhi: The Indian government's efforts to attract investments from qualified institutional investors (QFIs) have...

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MDT/PTI 05 July 2012
The sharp increase in CDR cases has continued unabated in FY13 as well and there were about three dozen cases involving nearly Rs20,000 crore referred to CDR cell in the June quarter   New Delhi: In a clear indication of growing financial difficulties of the corporate, a record number...

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A Banker 04 July 2012
Banks have come a long way from the days of deliberate acts of concealing the true state of affairs. “System generated” NPA is a necessary step in cleaning up the financials of banks which the RBI rightly directed Last week Dr KC Chakrabarty, deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India...

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MDT/PTI 04 July 2012
If there is a problem in the progress of monsoon then the central bank will take this into consideration while taking a call on rates   Chennai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) would pay more attention to the progress of the south west monsoon as it goes into its 'policy date', RBI...

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Apart from looking after shareholders’ interests, the five star boards of microfinance companies need to take better account of other stakeholders’ interests and a proactive approach to put into practice their stated governance principles   It was almost two years ago that we had the...

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According to the ICICI Bank chairman interest rate is hurting the common man and that's what is translating into lack of demand and a pressure in terms of the corporates New Delhi: High interest rate is hurting the common man and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) should cut interest rate...

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MDT/PTI 03 July 2012
In dollar terms, Punjab National Bank has lowered the FCNR deposit rates to 2.55% from 2.63% for deposits of maturity of two years and less than three years   New Delhi: Punjab National Bank revised its deposit rates downwards on Foreign Currency Non-Resident (FCNR) accounts with...

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MDT/PTI 02 July 2012
Under the credit line, medium and long-term credit will be provided through the ICICI Bank to Indian importers purchasing renewable energy equipment manufactured in Japan   Mumbai: The Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) on Monday said it has entered into an agreement with...

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Moneylife Digital Team 29 June 2012
 The action by the apex bank should serve as a pointer to other banks—big and small—that charge excessive service charges The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed a monetary penalty of Rs2 lakh on the Bundi Urban Co-operative Bank located at  Bundi in Rajasthan. According to a press...

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SBI chairman Pratip Chaudhuri said that the bank cut interest rates for exporters by 50 bps, effective 23rd June. The move comes within days of the RBI increasing the export refinancing limits of banks Mumbai: State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, has cut interest rate on...

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With the ongoing bids for becoming BCs approaching near zero percent, the boards of the banks should be made responsible for any outsourcing done by their respective banks through the common BC The ongoing bids for becoming bank business correspondent (BC) in 20 clusters across India is...

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