A resolute Reserve Bank of India (RBI) refrained from reducing policy repo rate in its mid-quarter review of monetary policy on June 17, 2013 citing the persistently high food inflation even though general inflation has declined. Thus, the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) remains unchanged at 7.25 per cent and the reverse repo rate remains at 6.25 per cent, and the marginal standing facility (MSF) rate and the Bank Rate at 8.25 per cent. The central bank also kept
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CRISIL assigns rating to Union Bank’s bond issue
The proposed Rs 5 billion Tier-II bond issue of United Bank of India received 'AA垿䫖鮕’ rating from Crisil. This is the first Tier-II capital instrument issued in the Indian market under the Basel III capital regulations. With effect from April 01, 2013, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) implemented Basel III capital regulations for Indian banks. This is based on the final guidelines issued in May
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World Bank expects Indian economy to grow 5.7% in FY14
World Bank expects India's GDP at factor cost to grow 5.7 per cent in 2013-14 and then accelerate to 6.5 per cent and 6.7 per cent in the two subsequent financial years, respectively. The multilateral lending agency said this in its Global Economic Prospects report released recently. In 2012-13, the economy expanded at a decade-low pace of 5 percent. The report notes that growth in South Asia would primarily be driven by an estimated pick-
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Rupee weakness to hit infra projects funded via ECBs
India Ratings & Research (Ind-Ra) said the ongoing depreciation of rupee against the dollar is eroding the cost advantage of external commercial borrowing (ECB) for domestic infrastructure projects. companies preferred to raise funds through ECB as interest rate charged on such loan is cheaper that credit in the local market
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Govt to announce more economic reforms to revive growth
Union Finance Minister informed that the government would unleash more economic reforms in the coming days and weeks in order to rev up the investor sentiment and spur growth momentum. The government is expected to expedite implementation of around 40 projects out of the 250 private sector projects that can quickly take off the ground and, thereby, boost economic growth, reports indicate
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Care Ratings expect 25 bps cut in repo rate by RBI
In an analyst note, Care Ratings said it expects Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to reduce repo rate by 0.25 per cent at the mid-term monetary policy review on June 17. In its May policy review, RBI cut the repo rate by 0.25 per cent and maintained that scope to further slash the short-term rate is
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PSU banks may benefit from falling yield on govt bonds
During April-June 2013, public sector banks may earn Rs 5,000 crore to Rs 7,000 crore owing to treasury gains as yield on government securities have declined by 60 basis points during April and May this year. This estimate on the treasury gains of state-run banks was given by Icra in a recent research report. The report noted that yield of government securities has fallen in the last two months and this will improve earnings of public
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Some banks recast debt outside CDR framework
According to a study by CARE Research, some banks are restructuring the debt of their borrowers through bilateral negotiation without referring the cases to the corporate debt restructuring (CDR) cell. The study found that out of the Rs 177,333 crore outstanding restructured advances of 10 large banks, only Rs 58,366 crore worth of loans were referred to the CDR cell
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Officials discuss issues in stressed loan mkt
Usha Thorat, Director of the Centre for Advanced Financial Research and Learning (Cafral), held discussion with banks, rating agencies and asset reconstruction companies (ARCs) on the issues in the stressed loan market. Typically, banks sell non performing assets (NPAs) to ARCs, which in turn tries to recovers the loan from the borrowers. ARCs acquire stressed assets from banks at a mutually agreed upon price and then recover it fro
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Banks’ credit offtake up in April-May, deposit growth slows
Demand for working capital and home loans helped the banking system log higher credit growth in the first two months of the current financial year compared with the corresponding year ago period. In the first two months, the banking systemÂ’s deposit growth was lower as compared with the corresponding year ago period.