Among the Sensex firms, Mahindra & Mahindra, Bharti Airtel, ICICI Bank, IndusInd Bank, Reliance Industries, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank were among the major laggards. Titan, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Asian Paints, HCL Technologies, Tech Mahindra, NTPC, Nestle and Power Grid were the major gainers.
Consensus continues to be cautious with analysts pointing towards tougher days ahead
Shares of ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and HDFC Bank on Friday tumbled as much as 4.5 per cent in morning trade following accusations that the lenders have indulged in money laundering.
HDFC Bank customers will be able to do 11 transactions on their Apple device using the `watchbanking' service.
>It's not easy to predict the market. But there are at least two positive factors to back the PSU banks, explains Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Among Sensex shares, Bajaj Finserve, ICICI Bank, Bharti Airtel, Bajaj Finance, Sun Pharma, Maruti Suzuki, ITC, and Nestle were the lead gainers. On the other hand, L&T Wipro, IndusInd Bank and TCS and Tata Motors were the lead losers.
The country's largest private sector lender, ICICI Bank, today said credit offtake will pick from July putting pressure on lending rates.
ICICI Bank, the country's largest private lender, on Wednesday ruled out any interest rate hike in the near future and said it was rebalancing its portfolio.
Among the Sensex firms, ITC, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank, Nestle, Axis Bank, IndusInd Bank, UltraTech Cement, Bajaj Finance, Maruti and HDFC Bank were the major laggards.
ICICI Bank on Friday tied up with Europe's financial powerhouse Fortis for offering asset and wealth management, estate planning and corporate services to Non-Resident Indians worldwide.
Srei Infra Finance group chief financial officer Sanjeev K Sancheti described the asset as a good buy as it is a fully secured debt.
Both the issues will be floated simultaneously either this month or the next month, subject to regulatory approvals, ICICI chief financial officer Vishakha Mulye said.
Leading private sector bank ICICI Bank has opened an office in South African city of Johannesburg with an aim to capitalise on India's growing ties with African countries.
The Paytm application (app) could potentially face a permanent loss of its integrated mobile wallet feature, currently owned by Paytm Payments Bank (Paytm PB). With the recent crackdown on Paytm PB, sources say getting a fresh wallet licence may get tough for the group. "The Paytm app (One97 Communications) has to apply afresh to the RBI for a licence to operate a prepaid payment instrument (PPI) like a mobile wallet within the Paytm app, as PPI is a regulated entity.
Foreseeing Indian economy back on a high-growth trajectory in the coming months, ICICI Bank is looking at expanding its fund-generation profile and revenue streams to capitalise on the forthcoming opportunities. Since 2007, as the global and Indian economic environment has changed rapidly, the bank has focused on a conscious strategy of capital conservation, risk containment and efficiency improvement.
Banking industry sources said the move by the lender is pre-emptive to protect its interest.
ICICI Securities will be the first subsidiary to be listed, followed by two insurance subsidiaries and the home finance business, he added.
Bajaj Finserv, ICICI Bank, Nestle, UltraTech Cement, Bajaj Finance, Maruti, Tata Consultancy Services, IndusInd Bank and State Bank of India were the major laggards. Infosys, JSW Steel, NTPC and Power Grid were the gainers.
This is a good opportunity for long-term investors to pick quality small and midcap stocks at reasonable valuations.
Shah Rukh Khan's image and popularity with the Non-Resident Indian segment will further reinforce ICICI Bank's global identity, the bank said in a statement.\n
The 2023-24 (FY24) July-September quarter (second quarter, or Q2) proved to be a mixed period for asset management companies (AMCs). While the two largest listed AMCs, HDFC and Nippon, reported robust growth in both revenue and profits, the other two, Aditya Birla Sun Life and UTI, experienced profit declines. HDFC AMC reported an 18 per cent year-on-year increase in Q2 revenue to Rs 765 crore, while Nippon's revenue rose 15 per cent to Rs 475 crore.
In 2007-08, ICICI Bank was accused for violating RBI guidelines relating to opening of deposit accounts.
The top 10 fund houses are slowly losing ground to their smaller peers, even as they continue to hold the lion's share in the total assets under management (AUM) of the mutual fund (MF) industry, according to an analysis of the quarterly AUM for the past six years. These fund houses had an average AUM of Rs 38.8 trillion in the third quarter (Q3) of 2023-24, which is 79 per cent of the total industry AUM of Rs 49.2 trillion. The share has come down steadily since Q3 of 2019-2020, when the share stood at 84 per cent.
The life insurance industry reported a 25.28 per cent decline in new business premium income in November 2023 to Rs 26,494.83 crore from Rs 34,588.8 crore recorded a year ago. The fall in group premium and change in taxation norms for policies with a higher ticket size dragged the premiums of the state-run Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) and private insurers, respectively. According to the data released by the Life Insurance Council, the premium of private insurers slipped 9.33 per cent Y-o-Y to Rs 10,360.29 crore from Rs 11,426.73 crore as a result of a change in product mix due to the measures taken to counter the impact of tax imposed on the premiums of Rs 5 lakh.
Top Indian private sector lender ICICI Bank, which owns nearly 68 percent of the insurer, is selling up to 181.34 million shares in the IPO.
Christopher Wood, global head of equity strategy at Jefferies has rejigged his equity portfolios. In his Asia ex-Japan long-only portfolio, he has added Axis Bank (5 per cent weightage) and increased holding in Larsen & Toubro (L&T) by one percentage point. This, Wood said, will be paid for by removing the investment in ICICI Lombard General Insurance and reducing the investments in HDFC Bank and Reliance Industries (RIL) by one percentage point each.
General insurer ICICI Lombard has structured the first ever weather insurance cover for a maximum sum insured of Rs 1.5 crore (Rs 15 million) for Gujarat Heavy Chemicals in the event of loss of salt production due to unseasonal rainfall at its Nagapa
From April 1, when we buy insurance for a car or take out a health cover, insurance companies can offer a product totally customised for us.
Car loans from ICICI Bank, the country's largest private sector lender, would be 50-75 basis points (bps) cheaper, while those from IDBI Bank would cost 100 bps less.
MD Chanda Kochhar says the facility 'has the potential to increase security and convenience'
ICICI Infotech outsmarted Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro to get the mandate from states for setting up a national tax information exchange system (Tinxsys) to track inter-state transactions and check tax evasion.
Following the sharp run in markets, valuations across the board have become elevated. The National Stock Exchange Nifty50 Index now trades at a 12-month trailing price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 24.3 times, 18 per cent higher than this year's low of 20.5 times. The valuation expansion in the broader markets has been sharper.
ICICI Bank has identified rural credit as the next growth platform for which it had decided to leverage the role of micro-credit organisations.
In a rating watch statement, ICRA said that it has re-affirmed the LAAA rating with a stable outlook on ICICI Bank's subordinated debt programme and long-term bonds programme, which indicate highest credit quality and lowest credit risk for the two instruments. Besides, the ratings for the debts taken over by ICICI Bank from the erstwhile ICICI Limited have also been retained at LAAA with stable outlook and MAAA, respectively.
ICICI Bank has a network of 1,416 branches and over 4,600 automated teller machines across the country, which it manages by itself, while several other banks have outsourced their ATM management and POS (credit and debit card payment accepting) terminals.
Among the Sensex firms, Asian Paints, Titan, Larsen & Toubro, JSW Steel, ITC, Hindustan Unilever, Maruti and Reliance Industries were the major gainers. ICICI Bank, NTPC, Infosys, Tech Mahindra, Tata Steel and Bajaj Finance were among the laggards.