Banking & Finance

Muthoot Finance expects gold loan business to drive bottom line in Q2

“We should be seeing growth in the non-gold business only from the third quarter. Vehicle finance and home loan sector has not picked up so far and is still in difficulty,”George Alexander Muthoot, managing director, Muthoot finance, said.

We will be back issuing cards by mid-September, huge potential to tap: Shalini Warrier, executive director, Federal Bank

According to research, customers reach out to credit cards when the ticket size is large. Youngsters use debit cards when the ticket size is small. That is a reason why we went for credit cards. This

Shalini Warrier, executive director, Federal Bank

Yes Bank scouts for partner to set up asset reconstruction firm

Bidders must have global experience in the distressed assets space, and a track record of turning around or resolving non-performing assets (NPAs), apart from satisfying the central bank’s ‘fit an

RBL Bank gets RBI accreditation to conduct government transactions

The accreditation comes on the heels of the RBI’s guideline authorising scheduled private sector banks as agency banks to carry out specific government-related business transactions.

RBL

Fintechs attract record $2 billion in H1: Report

Razorpay's raised USD 160 million in the series E round, making it the eighth largest, and lending app Kreditbee's mopped up USD 153 million in series C round, the tenth-largest in Asia.

fintechs, record investments, USD 2 billion, Noida-based Pinebabs' , Bengaluru-based payments app Razorpay's, EMEA region

‘Won’t need significant loan recast as market has improved’

For Shriram Housing Finance (SHFL), which has completed a decade of operations, the second quarter this fiscal promises to be one of the highest quarters ever in terms of disbursements, says its MD &

Ravi Subramanian

High stress: PSBs set aside over 60% of operating profit as provisions

Bankers say the first quarter saw stress mounting in the retail and small business segments as a result of the second Covid wave.

The road ahead for overall asset quality remains uncertain and would depend on the likely emergence of a new wave of the pandemic.

Shriram City, STFC raise record retail FDs worth Rs 2,000 crore in July

Shriram City raised retail FDs worth Ra 390 crore, while STFC raised Rs 1,610 crore in July — the highest-ever funds raised from retail FDs for both entities

Shriram City Union Finance, Shriram Transport Finance Company

323 frauds in UCBs, 482 in state co-op banks in FY21: FM

Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman said urban cooperative banks reported 323 frauds in FY21 as against 568 in the previous year and 1,193 in FY19. Similarly, state cooperative banks witnessed 482 fra

In contrast, the bad loan ratio of scheduled commercial banks stood at 7.5% as of March 2021, having eased from 8.4% a year before, the RBI said in its latest report in July.

Nearly 72 per cent of financial transactions of public sector banks done through digital channels: Govt

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has informed that it is not considering a separate licensing category for digital banks at present, Minister of State for Finance Bhagwat K Karad said in a written repl

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RBI to penalise banks for non-availability of cash in ATMs from October 1

The RBI will start imposing penalty on banks in case the ATMs remain out-of-cash for a total period of 10 hours in a month from October 1, 2021, onwards.

bank atm

Bharat ATM to add 20 lakh outlets by 2022-end to offer banking services to rural area

The app offers banking services, including account opening, deposits, remittances and cash withdrawals to rural masses in tie-up with local kirana stores, thereby eliminating the need to invest time a

INTERVIEW| Demand for loans has come back, says Nitin Chugh, MD & CEO, Ujjivan SFB

In an interview with Mithun Dasgupta, Chugh informs collection efficiency for every single state improved in July compared to June. However, Assam and Kerala are lagging behind. Excerpts:

Nitin Chugh

‘We believe liquidity scenario should change in next few months’

Given the fact that there’s abundance of liquidity and pricing is under pressure on the corporate side, we have focused on growth on the retail side.

That was the one-off which I believe should now start changing, and we should be getting back to normal operations in terms of how people behave, given their credit scores.

CUB June quarter net profit grows 12%

The bank's bad assets increased in the quarter, with gross NPA at 5.59%, rising from 3.90%. Net NPA too rose to 3.49% from 2.11%.

The bank’s capital adequacy as per Basel III norms stood at 19.58% and tier-1 capital adequacy was at 18.51%, well above the regulatory requirement.

HDFC Bank to hire 500 more to expand MSME coverage

The bank's MSME vertical covers 545 districts now with dedicated relationship managers and supervisors, which will be expanded to 575 districts or more by the end of this fiscal.

The government recently asked MSMEs to be re/de-classify themselves based on their turnover and get a Udhyam registration certificate.

SIDBI, FCDO UK launch challenge fund for specific purposes

SIDBI is India's principal financial institution engaged in the promotion, financing and development of micro, small and medium enterprises

Swavalamban Challenge Fund

PNB Housing Fin targets to bring corporate loan book below Rs 10,000 cr by end of March 2022: Hardayal Prasad

PNB Housing Finance's loan assets declined to Rs 60,438 crore at the end of June this year compared to Rs 68,009 crore in the year-ago period.

PNB Housing Finance, company's corporate lending, Asset Under Management, PNB Housing Finance's loan assets, retail-focussed organisation

Conversion of Vodafone debt into equity an option: Banks to DoT

DoT had called senior bank officials on Friday to discuss the stress in the telecom sector arising out of the Supreme Court order last month on the adjusted gross revenue (AGR)-related dues payable by

vodafone

IDBI Bank strategic sale: 7 firms in race for transaction advisor

Of the Rs 1.75 lakh crore, Rs 1 lakh crore is to come from selling government stake in public sector banks and financial institutions while Rs 75,000 crore would come as CPSE disinvestment receipts.

DCB Bank Q1 profit dips 57 pc to Rs 34 cr

The bank had posted a net profit of Rs 79.38 crore in the year- ago period. The profit was also down from Rs 77.91 crore in previous March quarter.

Bank of Baroda clocks Q1 profit of Rs 1,209 crore as NII improves

Total income moderated marginally to Rs 20,022.42 crore from Rs 20,312.44 crore in the same quarter a year ago, BoB said in a regulatory filing.

S&P revises Indian Bank’s rating outlook to stable from negative

The rating agency forecast that the pre-diversification risk-adjusted capital (RAC) ratio for Indian Bank to trend above 5% despite its assumption of 10%-12% annual credit growth and elevated credit c

In its view, Indian Bank is likely to maintain its solid funding and liquidity profile over the next 18-24 months.

Reserve Bank of India gives corporate borrowers 6 more months to meet debt recast guidelines

Vivek Iyer, partner and national leader-financial services risk advisory, Grant Thornton Bharat, said, “We need to be patient and study how the coming few months pan out. Since economic data comes o

Experts also pointed out that RBI had given the relaxations as the earnings of companies were impacted due to the second wave of Covid-19.
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