The central bank is of the view that rise in external debt a concern but rating outlook revision reassuring.
India's top private banks might soon exit from the gold coin business.
The sharp fall in rupee since the beginning of May will make things difficult for the central bank which is on the path of easing the monetary policy to revive growth.
Application deadline may be extended but no leeway on priority-sector targets.
RBI Governor D Subbarao says banks' response to RBI's monetary intervention is asymmetric.
Street expects RBI to keep CRR unchanged, opt for open-market operations to ease liquidity
Four days ahead of RBI's monetary policy review, SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri says a cut of one percentage point in CRR will allow the bank to lower lending rates 20 basis points.
Most major corporate houses, such as the Tata group, Birla group and Reliance Industries, besides non-banking financial companies like L&T Finance, M&M Financial Services and the Shriram group, are said to be interested in setting up new banks.
The public-sector lenders were yet to get a formal proposal on sale from HSBC.
Reserve Bank of India lens on mutual fund, insurance, gold coin sale by branch's non-sales staff
The Goa villa, Mumbai office could be put on the block.
Aspirants banking on experience and domain knowledge of veterans
The first such interaction would be in Mumbai on Monday.
Banks will ask the banking regulator to defer the higher provisioning norms on standard restructured advances.
To recover dues from 50 top defaulters; finance ministry wants proceedings fast-tracked.
Set to be allowed to apply for bank licences in the final guidelines expected by the end of the month
The Reserve Bank of India is widely expected to reduce the repo rate for the first time in nine months when it announces its third quarter policy review.
Also on the cards could be the first interest rate reduction in nine months.
FinMin advice to include brokers & realty firms, debate over entry of industrial houses slow the process.
Thomas Mathew T, managing director, tells Manojit Saha and M Saraswathy about the LIC's strategy and growth plans.