'When the rupee was at 65 a dollar, we wanted to go to Thailand for a holiday.' 'Now at 72, we may find Goa much more attractive.' 'That's how correction happens.' 'If you don't let that correction happen, then it's a pressure cooker that bursts one day.'
Last week, Essar had decided to prepay $900 million of this debt to foreign lenders.
SAS, global leaders in business intelligence solutions, on Friday announced setting up of its largest research and development centre in Pune, as it expects the Indian market to grow by 27 per cent and generate $87.4 billion worth business by 2009.
A new framework has been put in place for automatic exchange of information between Switzerland and India to help check the black money menace with effect from January 1, 2018. The funds held by Indians through fiduciaries alone used to be in billions till 2007 but began falling after that amid fears of regulatory crackdown. It is now at second-lowest level in 20 years.
Citibank is no longer quite the king of the Indian credit card market. It has been dethroned by ICICI Bank, which now claims it has 3 million credit cards.
Market regulator Sebi has barred 197 foreign funds, including those managed by global financial conglomerates like HSBC, Deutsche Bank and Standard Chartered, and 342 sub-accounts from further trading in stock market.
Balance transfer is a facility in which you can transfer outstanding balance from one credit card to another. It works well if you have multiple cards.
Under the resolution plan, the lenders would end up having a sizable portion of shares in the airline, if their boards of directors agree to convert part of their debt into equity.
Various corporate houses and private banks, including Aditya Birla Group, Hindustan Lever, Sahara Group, Bank of America, ANZ Grindlays, ICICI Bank, ABN Amro and HSBC
The survey showed firms' confidence regarding future business grew at the slowest pace in a year last month.
Bumper liquidity as a result of global central bank stimulus measures should prevent a sharper downturn.
Market meltdown and volatility pushed many traders to the sidelines.
Stuart A Davis, the chief executive officer at HSBC India, expects the Reserve Bank of India to increase repo and reverse repo rates by 25 basis points in its quarterly monetary policy review on July 27, as concerns over accelerating inflation and uncertain monsoon linger.
The HSBC Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index fell to 51.3 in April from March's 52.1
India is seen as a good destination to relocate to as expat parents enjoy greater opportunities to make significant financial savings.
Irrespective of demonetisation and GST blues, IIM Lucknow has been able to successfully place their batch of 459 students.
'The real estate sector has been badly bruised because it has become too reliant on funding from NBFCs, including housing finance companies. 'When the NBFC industry was rocked late last year by a large default, the real estate sector was hit hard. 'An intricate web of links between rural incomes, construction activity and shadow banks are fuelling the economic slowdown', says Pranjul Bhandari.
Regular recruiters such as Deutsche Bank, HSBC Global Research, Standard Chartered Bank, Axis Bank, Yes Bank, FuturesFirst, Johnson and Johnson, ITC, Deloitte Innovation, Knightfrank, Larsen and Toubro, Jindal Steel and Power Corporation, Infosys and CTS among others continued their relationship with the institute this year also.
According to the report, 1,195 Indians, nearly double the old list of 628 shared by the French government with India, figure in the HSBC list with a total balance of Rs 25,420 crore.
India has made a fresh request to Switzerland seeking bank details and names of Indians having unaccounted money in Swiss banks, as the government expands its efforts to combat the menace of black money.
HSBC India has announced a new home loan package offering to pay back part of the interest to borrowers. Yes, like the foreign bank claims, it is a first in the home loans business. But if one takes a careful look, it might not be such a big deal after all.
Swiss brokerage UBS joins European banking peer HSBC in shutting down its offshore derivative business
Although the pricing for the IPO is yet to be finalised, people in the know said the band could be Rs 275-300
Governor Raghuram Rajan's move to cut the MSF rate, at which banks borrow if they exceed their repo borrowing limits, by 0.50 per cent to 9 per cent should not be construed as a reversal in his policy stance and is more of a normalising measure, Citi said in a note.
About one-fourth of the Indian population is without pension coverage and only 13 per cent of the country's paid employees are under formal pension arrangement, a survey has found.
The 57-year-old Bhattacharya, front-runner for the post on account of years of service left, was managing director and chief financial officer of the bank prior to her elevation.
Economic recovery in US, euro zone help; new orders sub-index at 52.4
Finance -- the most battered sector by the global meltdown -- is making a strong comeback.
USAID looks forward to working with each to make financial inclusion a long-lasting and sustainable reality in India.
Factory growth picked up in May.
The Indian Met Department has predicted a below normal monsoon.
In the offshore non-deliverable forwards, the one-month contract was at 62.26/36, while the three-month was at 62.83/93.
An index value of 42 to 46 means moderate decline.
According to a survey of expatriates across four continents, conducted by global banking major HSBC, Singapore, the United States and the United Arab Emirates have emerged as the top three most popular destinations among expats.
