Sensex ended up 110.10 points at 11,660.79, while Nifty closed up 24 points at 3390.
While State Bank of India with $78.88 billion in assets was among top 30 largest banks in Asia, Corporation Bank emerged as second strongest bank in the region, based on seven crucial financial parameters.
Not all public sector banks are back in the black, but their collective net profit for the year is Rs 32,346 crore against a Rs 9,013 crore loss in the previous year, points out Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Canara Bank on Friday launched Internet and mobile banking services covering 300 select branches spread across six cities in the initial phase and said it is in talks with five or six banks for ATM sharing.
After upgrading India's foreign currency debt rating, Moody's Investor Service on Wednesday upgraded the foreign currency deposit, debt and issuer ratings for 11 Indian banks and financial institutions.
The bank also issued 234 LoUs worth Rs 1,880 crore to another group of companies promoted by Mehul Choksi in 2015 and 2016
Electing Union Bank of India chairman V Leeladhar as the new chief, the Indian Banks Association on Thursday said it has constituted a committee to draw up a long-term perspective 'Vision Plan' for the banking industry.
Andhra Pradesh's J B S Vidyadhar beat the national champion in the semi-finals of the Senior ranking badminton tournament.
The markets have opened the week in the positive terrain, traders are bullish on auto, power, bank up. In the morning session, selling pressure was witnessed in IT.
The markets have opened in the positive terrain on the first day of december, traders have shown their faith in construction, IT, steel, capital goods. The selling pressure was witnessed in oil, auto, telecom stocks.
Indian Bank plans an initial public offer in July 2004 to raise capital for funding its expansions, its chairman Ranjana Kumar said on Tuesday.
The markets opened strong on account of buying seen in select index pivotals
At 11.58 am IST, the Sensex is up 59.24 points or 0.47% at 12682.52, and the Nifty up 8.10 points or 0.22% at 3665.4.
The Bombay Stock Exchange will shift 22 scrips, including Canara Bank, Dena Bank and i-flex from the 'B1' to the 'A' group, from November 3.
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Being distributed through a fake Flash Player app, the malware is designed for stealing login credentials, hijacking SMSs, uploading contact lists and SMSs to malicious servers, reports Romita Majumdar.
It also named bosses for Bank of India, IDBI Bank Ltd and Punjab National Bank from within the state sector
Last year, Nikhil Kamath and his brother Nithin jettisoned into a club of the country's 100 wealthiest with their net worth pegged at around Rs 24,000 crore
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Amid stiff competition from private and foreign players, the country's 27 public sector banks logged 35 per cent growth in profit at Rs 16,546 crore (Rs 165.46 billion) while their bad assets fell below 3 per cent during 2003-04.
In all, 292 allegedly fraudulent LoUs and 224 foreign letters of credit were generated and money sanctioned to Nirav Modi's companies since 2011
Interest rate and tenure are not the only two factors to consider.
To begin with, there would be the immediate integration of various technology stacks. This would create more business for global consulting and IT services entities such as KPMG, PwC, EY, Accenture and IBM, among others. Indian service providers - Infosys, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), and Wipro, for instance - would also cash in.
Bank unions - officers and workmen - had buried their differences and sat across the table on August 29 to work out a fresh deal with the IBA involving a 20 per cent wage hike.
Naresh Goyal-owned group companies, including the airline's general sales agent in India and abroad, and a car rental firm, are among those who have filed claims.
Bank stocks took a hammering today as the Centre said it was not in its policy to take back its equity from public sector banks at par value.
The entire amount is to be provided for four quarters.
Banking PSU stocks made a brave comeback on Monday after succumbing to losses Friday following the Union Budget's ignoring a long-standing demand by the sector on FDI limits.
Rajan said the RBI is working on upgrading the capabilities of its inspectors to undertake bank system audits as well as to detect vulnerabilities in them
PSU bank stocks held the market's attention in morning trades on Tuesday as there's much anticipation that the Union Budget for 2003-04 may bring about the raising of foreign holding ceiling in these banks.
Between April and August, it issued request seeking LoC against 147 individuals to prevent them from leaving the country, the bank said in response to a Right to Information query filed by Pune-based activist Vihar Durve.
The Reserve Bank has asked the public to pay their income tax dues well in advance so as to avoid standing in long queues and stated that 29 agency banks are also authorised to accept such payments.
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Today, the economy requires a certain amount of push not just from the monetary policy but also from its transmission: Das.
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