The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to reiterate its view that it would be comfortable only with holding companies at the top in financial services groups when it releases final guidelines on setting up bank holding companies or financial holding companies by November 15.
ICICI Bank, the country's second-largest bank, has stopped lending to borrowers from the sub-prime segment, while the biggest player in small loans, Citigroup, has made its processes more stringent.
ICICI Bank, the country's second largest bank, has sold roughly 45 per cent of its sticky home loans to the Asset Reconstruction Company India Ltd (Arcil) in a first step towards creating a market for retail loans that have turned bad.ICICI Bank sold Rs 360 crore of non-performing home loans at a price around the book cost, confirmed Rajiv Sabharwal, senior general manager, ICICI Bank.
RBI's warning was delivered by Governor Y V Reddy at an address to bank chiefs during the mid-term review of the monetary policy on October 30. Reddy told bank chiefs he would not hesitate to recommend to Parliament that the ULA be extended to the banking sector if they did not charge reasonable rates of interest.
The Mumbai-based recovery chief does not want to be identified but says his greater concern is not that non-performing loans would rise from the already elevated levels. Coordinated opposition to recovery efforts could lead to banks withdrawing altogether from lending to this sub-prime segment in India that otherwise depends on informal money lenders.
UB Group, which has raised close to Rs 1,500 crore (Rs 15 billion) debt for keeping Kingfisher Airline in the skies during the past two years, has raised another Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) debt to fund the 46 per cent buy in Deccan Aviation.The debt for the 46 per cent buy in Deccan Aviation has been raised in two phases. In the first phase, for the 26 per cent negotiated deal for Rs 550 crore and the subsequent 20 per cent open offer which cost UB Group Rs 425 crore.
We are focusing on how to make banking affordable for the customer. The bank is bullish on retail business, says Suresh Gurumani.
Cerberus Capital, the New York-based private equity fund that recently bought Chrysler from the erstwhile DaimlerChrysler for close to $7.5 billion, is entering the Indian market shortly.
The RBI is drafting a comprehensive study on the credit card market and a best practices code for credit card issuers.
Now you can withdraw money and simultaneously get your passbook updated at the automated teller machine (ATM) instantly.
Entrepreneur-investor Ramesh Vangal is likely to team up with US-based business process outsourcing (BPO) firm Sutherland Global Services to wrest majority control in Cambridge Solutions. Vangal holds 13 per cent stake in Cambridge.
The RBI is working on a comprehensive set of guidelines that will make banks responsible for ensuring that their recovery agencies do not recruit individuals with a criminal background.
The fringe benefit tax (FBT) was levied on ESOPs in the Union Budget this year and the IT industry is still grappling with the issue of how to factor in the tax.
Chidambaram clears holding company for insurance & mutual fund subject to RBI clearance.
Larsen & Toubro is set to invest Rs 100 crore (Rs 1 billion) in Mysore-based Rangsons Electronics for a 40 per cent stake.
Companies like Brigade Group, Shriram Properties, Confident Group and Skyline Builders are in the final stages of completing the paper work of tying up these investments.
Forget Starbucks coming into India. Witness the expansion of Caf Coffee Day, which is set to mushroom across the country.
The Reserve Bank of India has issued a fresh directive to banks having less than the required capital to address ownership issues and take steps to increase their net worth to a minimum of Rs 300 crore (Rs 3 billion).
The Reserve Bank of India is unlikely to sanction higher capital market exposure limits to banks which are closer to reaching the regulatory ceiling.
In an interview to Business Standard on the eve of the UTI bank's rechristening to Axis Bank, its head honcho P Jayendra Nayak, talks about his vision for the bank in the next two years.
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