The proposed Rs 5 billion Tier-II bond issue of United Bank of India received 'AAĂ„ĆŸÂżĂ€Â«âĂ©ÂźâąĂâ 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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Minister highlights potential of technology in upstream sector
Union Petroleum Minister M Veerappa Moily said technology and capital intensive interventions have the potential to give new lease of life to the matured fields and improving recovery factor. He said this while making the inaugural address at the third IEF NOC-IOC Forum. Even from producing fields, India's recovery factor is in the range of 25-33 percent whereas fields in North Sea or in Gulf of Mexico of same vintage have recovery fact
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Minister raises concern on rising bad loans
Finance Minister P Chidambaram raised concern about the rising non-performing assets (NPAs) in the banking system and asked banks to control it order to prevent adverse impact on profitability. Huge provisioning for NPAs is eating into the profits of state-owned banks, the minister said while addressing the annual general meeting of the Indian BanksĂâ Association
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$600 mn infra fund to be launched by IL&FS, Stanchart PE
A new infrastructure fund would be launched jointly by Standard Chartered Private Equity and IL&FS Investment Managers with a corpus of around $600 million. This is the second fund being launched jointly by both the firms. The new fund may consider investing in Middle East nations besides investing in Indian
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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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HUDCO’s Rs 7 bn bond issue gets to top rating
Care Ratings assigned AA rating to the five-year bonds to be issued by Housing and Urban Development Corp (HUDCO) for raising Rs 7 billion or around $127.03 million. The base size of the issue is Rs 1.5 billion, media reports suggest. HUDCO invited bids and set a ceiling of 8.15 per cent on the coupon
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SAIL takes steps to complete modernisation project early
Steel Authority of India (SAIL) is taking steps to ensure that the modernisation work at its IISCO Steel Plant is completed at the earliest. As part of this, CS Verma, Chairman of the firm assigned
separate jobs to different teams formed for this purpose. The company formed different teams and broke all critic
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IL&FS to bolster presence in merchant banking segment
According to source-based information, Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services (IL&FS) plans to strengthen its presence in the merchant banking business to cater to infrastructure companies. A top official of the firm is quoted as saying that the firm wants to increase its presence for doing initial public offers and merchant banking activities. In 2008, the firm divested 73.21 per cent stake in its merchant banking division IL&FS Investsmart to HSBC for arou
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Coking coal import of SAIL set to rise
The current expansion projects, once completed, would result in a 30 per cent growth in the import of coking coal by Steel Authority of India (SAIL) to feed its increased production capacity. In the past two fiscal years, the firm's coking coal shipments remained largely unchanged at around 10 million tonne. The steelmaker imports three-quarters of its coking coal
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Investors await clarity on tariff policy of govt
Some section of the union shipping ministry feels that private investors are keenly awaiting the government's decision on tariff norms in the port sector before investing. Particularly, private players are awaiting government's decision on a proposal to transform the Tariff Authority of Major Ports (TAMP) from a regulatory body into an appellate body. TAMP regulates tariffs in cent