Foreign investors are showing strong interest in deploying capital on the Indian debt instruments as is evident from the recent auction of quotas to them. Foreign investors bid for quotas to invest in Rs 259.05 billion ($4.34 billion) worth of debt, while
only Rs 236.61 billion worth of debt was on offer, media repo
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FIIs show interest in deploying capital
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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
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FIIs sell Rs 323 bn worth of debt papers in June
Official data shows that foreign institutional investors (FIIs), who bought Indian debt instruments worth Rs 22,000 crore during Jan-May 2013, sold Rs 32,336 crore worth of such papers in June. The heavy selling of debt instruments by FIIs led to a fall in bond prices and rise in bond yields. Yield on the 10-year government bond rose to 7.46 per cent, from 7.11 a month ago. This led to a negative monthly return of 1-2 per
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RBI sells bonds worth Rs 140 bn in recent auction
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) sold Rs 140 billion worth bonds of various tenure on behalf of government. The central bank sold 2020 bond, 2025 bond, 2032 bond and 2035 bond through a recent auction. The central bank set a cut-off price of Rs 104.22, yielding 7.6598 percent for the 8.20 percent 2025 bond. For the 8.12 per cent, 2020 bond, the RBI set a cut-off price
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ICICI Bank issues Chinese currency bonds
ICICI Bank raised Chinese Yuan (Renminbi) 650 million ($106 million) by issuing bonds in the currency at a coupon rate of 4 per cent. The bond, which will be listed on the Singapore exchange, have been issued under the bank’s $5 billion Medium Term Note (MTN) programme. ICICI Bank is the second domestic lender to sell bonds to offshore Chinese investors. Earlier, IDBI Bank had tapped this fund-raising route. Rating agency S&P has given a ‘BBB
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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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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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RBI to continue purchase of govt bonds
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) continues to purchase government bonds through the open market operation (OMO) in order to ease liquidity constraint in the banking system. This was hinted by Economic Affairs Secretary Arvind Mayaram when he said the government doesn't think the central bank has slowed the pace of its bond purchase programme
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Canara Bank to issue bonds for funding expansion plan
In order to finance its global business expansion, Canara Bank would issue bonds worth $1 billion from the international market. The company would start the process of the bond issue by holding roadshows in Singapore, Hong Kong and London between May 27 and May 31. The state-run bank would use the fund for growth of its overseas business, which is presently spread across Lond
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Board of Srei allows it to issue Rs 15 bn worth bonds
In a communication to the stock exchange, Srei Infrastructure Finance informed that during the financial year 2013-14 the company is permitted by its board to raise Rs 1,500 crore through debentures. This amount can be raised through public issue of secured, redeemable, non-convertible debentures in one or more tranches during the current fiscal, the firm said. The company's board has also approved to raise up to Rs 500 crore in one or more tranches through issue of prefe