Coal India was listed on November 4, 2010, and its market value today stands at over Rs 2 lakh crore.
Billionaire banker Uday Kotak founded bank as well as brokerage created and oversaw an offshore fund used by an unnamed investor to profit from a plunge in Adani shares that followed a damning Hindenburg report, the US short seller said on Tuesday. Hindenburg Research, which had in a January 2023 report alleged stock market manipulations and accounting fraud at the Adani group, said it has received a show cause notice from the Indian markets regulator Sebi over gains made from betting on the conglomerate's shares.
Senior bankers point out that while they will eventually attract qualified professionals, onboarding them takes time.
No respite in sight as not many big deals, initial public offerings in pipeline.
The Softbank-backed company has set a price band of Rs 72 to Rs 76 per share for the maiden share sale and is expected to test the appetite for new-age loss-making companies.
After US, it is now Britain which is turning the taps off on perks for the chief executive officers and bankers, with Prime Minister Gordon Brown warning them that time was off on the current culture of "big bonuses"
Chidambaram first met bankers and industrialists in Mumbai to seek ways to revive slowing economic growth.
Rather, the existing ones should be implemented speedily to clean up the mess.
The event that was inaugurated by five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand will have 11 rounds before the best player in the under-20 category can be determined in both sections.
Sitharaman also directed public sector bank heads to clear long pending vigilance cases against their officials for alleged malpractices.
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The bank chiefs have also cancelled the customary media conference after the bi-annual policies.
While listing can be good, success depends on sentiment and performance.
Economic growth, which we are taking for granted, slows for a completely different set of local or global factors and the Modi premium vanishes, observes Debashis Basu.
'For me, if I want to buy a house to stay, I don't care about indexation because I don't want to sell that house.' 'The only thing that matters to me as a buyer is that the home price should be within my reach.' 'Any market, when speculators and investors go out, it will benefit the middle class.'
The comments come within a month of the arrest of seven people, including the chief executive of LIC Housing Finance by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the scandal.
Every defaulter is not a wilful defaulter who has the capability of paying back and is yet not servicing the bank loan, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
HDFC Bank has been awarded 'The Asian Banker Excellence in Retail Banking Risk Management Award' in India for 2004 in recognition of its risk management abilities.
'After a long time, we have a governor who is approachable. The RBI's interactions with us are now much better.'
Draft Red Herring Prospectus (DRHP) filing continued to be robust in October, signifying the optimism in the initial public offer (IPO) market despite the recent turbulence in equities. In October, 17 companies filed their offer documents for IPOs. The rush in filings has made August-October 2023 the best three-month period for DRHP filings since July-September 2021.
'There is not any negative connotation associated with it.'
In numerous instances, family members are unaware of an insurance policy's existence, let alone its details.
Bankers said India's structural story from medium to long term was intact and they were optimistic about the future.
Indian banks, which are increasingly getting worried due to asset-liability mismatch, have sought the government's approval to float tax-free bonds.
There's a long way to go before human beings are replaced by machines -- in banks at least.
In addition to regulatory actions against small and midcaps, tighter liquidity conditions are another headwind that stocks are facing this month. Market observers say advance tax outflows and capital gains-related adjustments will weigh on the markets in the near term.
AIBOC in a letter to the Prime Minister, has said the government should not expect the banking fraternity to "join the political campaign of #MainBhiChowkidar" unless issues related to merger of banks, salary revision and staff recruitment, among others, are addressed.
If they are made accountable, bad loan cases will shrink dramatically, recoveries will rise, and the NCLT process will be more manageable, asserts Debashis Basu.
Bankers on Tuesday ruled out any immediate reduction in lending rates, saying any step in that direction will be determined by the cost of funds.
Sir Osborne Smith was the first governor of the Reserve Bank, serving from April 1, 1935, to June 30, 1937.
Private equity (PE) investments in India have fallen to a 6-year low at $24.2 billion in the financial year ending March 2024. Investments via PE deals are down 47 per cent compared to FY23, when private equity deals worth $45.8 billion were signed. According to data sourced from Bloomberg, PE firms had signed record deals worth $80 billion in the financial year ending March 2022.
Please promise, especially those millions who trust you with their hard-earned money, never to let your voting preferences determine your actions on the markets. The most appalling and scary phenomenon was fund houses and brokerages going out on election yatras and writing copious reports promising more than 300 for the BJP. That was your wish as voters. Your investors are paying for it now, points out Shekhar Gupta.
Tata Consultancy Services has won the 'The Banker Technology Award 2003', co sponsored by the UK-based Financial Times Group and the Banker Magazine's, in the stock exchange category
'We went from zero to about 10 million users in three months. Paytm came out with the wallet play and we came out with the UPI play.'
Question remains, what happens when the overseeing committees' members themselves are questioned by investigative agencies?