Some market analysts feel that the recent step by Reserve Bank of India to hike daily average CRR requirement of banks is akin to a CRR hike. It may be recalled that recently the central bank mandated banks to maintain higher average CRR (cash reserve ratio) of 99 per cent of the requirement on daily basis as against the earlier 70 per cent. CRR is portion of de
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Cost of funds for realty firms may rise
Reserve Bank of India's recent measures to contain depreciation of rupee against dollar may raise cost of borrowing for developers and affect their ability to service debt, industry players feel. It may be recalled that the central bank limited the daily borrowing of banks under its liquidity adjustment window
to 0.5 per cent of their net deposits against 1 per cent earli
Indian economy may grow slower than expected
Some rating agencies and brokerages reduced the economic growth forecast for 2013-14 owing to the liquidity tightening steps taken by Reserve Bank of India (RBI). For instance, rating agency ICRA lowered its growth forecast to the range of 5.4-5.6 percent from 5.8-6 percent
Basel-III norms may require Rs 2.3 trillion additional capital for SBI
In order to meet the additional capital requirement under the Basel-III norms, State Bank of India (SBI) would need about Rs 230,000 crore up to 2018. This includes Rs 150,000 crore of tier-I capital and Rs 80,000 crore of tier-II capital, agency reports indicate.
It is learnt that SBI may raise some of the required capital through internal accruals and some part from the mark
Banks must adopt system to comply with KYC norms
Reserve Bank Deputy Governor KC Chakrabarty said asked banks to adopt a system to identify violations in know your customer (KYC) norms and rectify it immediately. Chakrabarty said this in the context of the recent Cobrapost expose, which claimed that almost
Bank of Maharashtra trims base rate by 25 bps
Some public sector banks are reducing their lending rates following the meeting of their chiefs with Finance Minister P Chidambaram. During a recent meeting with the chiefs of state-run banks,
Chidambaram has asked them to reduce lending rates to spur credit growth and thereby reverse investment cycle. Recently, Bank of Maharashtra reduced ‘base rate’ by 25 basis points from 10.25 percent to 10.00 percent on mon
OBC reduces base rate by 0.25%
Following the meeting with Finance Minister P Chidambaram some of the public sector banks are reducing their base rates. The recent bank to join the club is Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC), which trimmed its base rate by 25 basis points, or 0.25 percentage points, from 10.25 per cent to 10 per cent. The reduction in the interest rate woul
Net profit rises 42% for IndusInd Bank in June quarter
Net profit of IndusInd Bank rose 42 percent to Rs 335 crore during Apr-Jun 2013 from Rs 236 crore in the year-earlier period. During the quarter, the bank witnessed 27 percent growth in loan portfolio, double the growth rate of the banking industry. The bank's net interest income rose 40 percent to Rs 679 crore from Rs 484 crore in the same period last year. Further, it witnessed 48 percent growth in non-interest income to Rs 471 crore, boosted by an increase in mark-to-m
State-run banks take efforts to recover bad loans
In order to recover bad loans from borrowers, some public sector banks are putting pressure on the guarantors of wilful loan defaulters. One such incidence happened when Allahabad Bank published a public notice exposing the guarantor of a borrower who defaulted on his loan. The state-run bank published the photographs of two guarantors as well in the newspapers as part of a publi
RBI trains guns on speculative position in NDF mkt
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) feels that foreign units of Indian companies and foreign companies in which part of equity is held by Indian firms have a role to play in the depreciation of rupee against the dollar. The central bank feels that these entities may be taking speculative position in the non-deliverable forward (NDF) market resulting in the depreciation of rupee against the