ICICI Bank is planning to increase its home loan rates by 50 basis points "anytime before the end of the current fiscal".
ICICI Bank Ltd said Reserve Bank of India authorized it in Feb 2002 to import gold/silver/platinum under Exim-Policy 1997 for sale in wholesale domestic market.
ICICI Bank has posted a 23 per cent rise in its net profit at Rs 530.01 crore (Rs 5.3 billion) for the first quarter ended June 30, 2005 as against Rs 430.74 crore (Rs 4.3 billion) for the same quarter in 2004-05.
Major credit issuers, including the largest - HDFC Bank - have integrated their systems with the Bharat Bill Payment Systems (BBPS) for receiving credit card repayments via third-party applications.
ICICI Bank, India's second biggest bank, has offered to lower the equated monthly installments for a large number of its borrowers by enhancing the tenure of their home loans.
"Our business is growing between 18 to 20 per cent and we are also adding branches... it's expected that we would hire between five and six thousand people in our workforce," the bank's managing director and chief executive Chanda Kochhar told reporters.
Real estate major Parsvnath Developers may soon be able to reduce a significant chunk of its debt, thanks to certain corporate giants showing interest in buying a prime piece of property it owns in the national capital.
Consolidated total income of the bank, whose share price recently tumbled on rumours of high exposure to overseas sub-prime loans, rose 12.56 per cent to Rs 15,590.46 crore during the quarter against Rs 13,850.57 crore for the same period last year.
The bank raised it floating rates from 12 per cent to 13 per cent, with the fixed rate being raised to 16.5 per cent from October 10.
The bottom lines of several private sector banks have taken a hit following the recent guidelines released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on alternate investment fund (AIF) investments. Last month, the RBI announced that regulated entities, such as banks, non-bank lenders, and home financiers, cannot invest in AIFs that have directly or indirectly invested in companies that have borrowed money from the lenders. In case an entity had already made such an investment, they must liquidate the investment or make 100 per cent provision, RBI had said.
Stock markets snapped their five-day losing run on Friday with the benchmark BSE Sensex closing higher by 75 points on value-buying in banking and oil shares after recent losses. The 30-share BSE Sensex rose by 75.71 points or 0.10 per cent to settle at 73,961.31. During the session, it hit a high of 74,478.89 points and a low of 73,765.15 points.
The bank saw loans worth Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 70 billion) slipping into NPAs during the March quarter, taking the gross NPA ratio to 5.82 per cent.
Leading private sector bank ICICI Bank will charge its customers Rs 5 per transaction from next month for transfer of funds over mobile phones, a service available for free as of now.
Among the Sensex firms, Hindustan Unilever, Reliance Industries, Infosys, Asian Paints, ITC and UltraTech Cement were the major gainers. State Bank of India, JSW Steel, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Tata Steel and Tata Motors were among the laggards.
From the Sensex basket, Mahindra & Mahindra, Larsen & Toubro, JSW Steel, NTPC, IndusInd Bank, Sun Pharma, UltraTech Cement, State Bank of India, Reliance Industries, and Maruti were the major gainers. Nestle, Tata Consultancy Services, Axis Bank, ICICI Bank, Bajaj Finance, ITC, and Asian Paints were among the laggards.
ICICI Bank is likely to disburse Rs 7,000 crore (Rs 70 billion) as agricultural lending in 2004-05 as against Rs 4,000 crore (Rs 40 billion) in the last fiscal.
For over a decade, HDFC Bank consistently outperformed industry growth rates in both deposits and advances, maintaining impeccable asset quality. Amid a landscape where other banks struggled with soaring non-performing assets (NPAs), HDFC Bank thrived, eventually surpassing ICICI Bank to become the largest private sector lender in India. Its net interest margin (NIM) remained stable in the range of 4.1-4.4 per cent.
The bank has increased its spreads or mark-up over base rate paid by a borrower by 0.10 per cent.
The government of India has nominated Vinod Rai as the government nominee on the board of ICICI bank in place of Vineeta Rai with effect from January 3, 2003.\n\n
Such is her faith in ICICI Bank, its joint MD continues to invest all her savings in the bank's stock and remains unfazed by the hammering it has taken.
Last week, Disha, the NGO front of the bank, launched the first of the series of its school comic books on banking.
ICICI's board has denied any wrongdoing, highlighting that the loan was underwritten in accordance with the bank's credit standards and was extended as part of a consortium involving over 20 banks.
Competition watchdog CCI has asked about two dozen banks and housing finance companies, including HDFC, ICICI Bank, and LICHF, to explain their imposing penalty on borrowers for pre-payment of home loans. The Competition Commission of India, according to official sources, has sent notices to major home loan players after examining a report of Director General (Investigations) which found evidences against banks for misusing their dominant position.
The net credit card additions in the banking sector nearly halved to 2 million in the first quarter of the current financial year (Q1FY25) from the previous quarter due to seasonal and regulatory factors. According to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) data, the net credit card additions during the April-June quarter of FY25 stood at 2 million, 48 per cent lower than 3.9 million in the December-March quarter of FY24.
ICICI Bank on Thursday reported a 16.85 per cent rise in consolidated net profit to Rs 1,567.93 crore (Rs 15.67 billion) for the quarter ended March 31, 2011.
Private banks' net profit grew 26.3 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) to Rs 48,982 crore in the first quarter ended June 2024 (Q1FY25) owing to healthy growth in credit and other income. The gross non-performing assets (GNPAs) increased with the end of dispensation granted during the pandemic, according to the data compiled by BS Research Bureau for listed 18 private banks.
The country's largest private sector bank ICICI Bank said on Tuesday it does not expect a slowdown in credit growth following the hike of 0.25 per cent in overnight rates by the Reserve Bank of India.
ICICI Bank on Friday reported 13 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 2,698 crore (Rs 26.98 billion) for the second quarter ended September 30, 2013.
The country's second largest lender ICICI Bank Ltd on Thursday said it would raise upto Rs 5,750 crore (Rs 57.5 billion) through public offer of equity shares.\n
ICICI Bank, the country's largest private sector lender, which has identified infrastructure as one of its growth drivers, sees projects worth Rs 150,000 crore for achieving financial closure in the next three to four months.
Executive Director V Vaidyanathan will assume the position of managing director and chief executive officer of the bank's life insurance arm, ICICI Prudential. This slot had fallen vacant as Shikha Sharma decided to move to Axis Bank.
In a bid to tap the growing potential of mutual fund business in the country, ICICI Bank has decided to raise its stake in Prudential ICICI Asset Management Company to 51 per cent, by buying out six per cent stake from Prudential Plc.
Profit taking in index heavweights RIL and HDFC weighed on sentiment while ICICI Bank surged 7%.
From the Sensex pack, Tata Steel, Titan, Tech Mahindra, Wipro, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Nestle India, Tata Motors and JSW Steel were the biggest laggards. ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, State Bank of India and Kotak Mahindra Bank were the gainers.
Public-sector banks, including Canara Bank and Bank of India, are tapping the infrastructure bond market. Canara Bank on Tuesday raised Rs 10,000 crore at a coupon rate of 7.40 per cent through 10-year infrastructure bonds. This comes after SBI on July 10 raised Rs 10,000 crore also through infrastructure bonds with a 15-year tenor at a coupon rate of 7.36 per cent.
Total income declined to Rs 14,595.85 crore.
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