Infrastructure Development Finance Company has bagged Standard Chartered's asset management business in India for a total consideration of $205 million (around Rs 820 crore) in an all-cash deal. This deal, like the ill-fated UBS' bid last year, however, does not include StanChart's mutual fund distribution business, which the London-based bank will continue to pursue in India.
Issuance of new bank licences proves that the apex bank wants the financial sector to flourish.
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Weakness in the broader markets, along with expensive valuations that these companies had commanded during their IPOs, has led to this fall
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The scrutiny is expected to be over this month itself.
Global trends, WPI inflation data for April and the ongoing quarterly earnings of corporates would be the major driving factors for the stock markets, analysts said. Investors would also keep a tab on the movement of foreign institutional investors who are on a selling spree in the domestic equity market for the past many days. "Inflation concern and monetary tightening across the globe are key concerns for the equity markets. "Equity markets are under the strong grip of bears however they look extremely oversold and due for a pullback rally.
Dy Governor notes it's an era of job changes for better.
Mudra Bank will be a Rs 20,000-crore institution, which would "primarily be responsible for refinancing all micro-finance institutions.
EC received the RBI proposal in the first week of this month, soon after the model code of conduct came into force on March 5.
HSBC maintained "overweight" rating on Indian equities, saying "fundamentals are strong".
Licence winners are expected to be announced by the first quarter of 2014.
TMFs invest in a public index, so investors know beforehand which instruments the fund will invest in.
Fund managers have favoured stocks in the financial services and automobile spaces, which include IDFC, PNB, Maruti Suzuki and Hero MotoCorp.
Based on this screening, the committee may weed out applications that do not meet the eligibility yardstick or the 'fit and proper' criteria for securing a licence.
Investors lost around Rs 1.57 lakh crore in market valuation on Friday.
India's five leading wilful defaulters are Winsome Diamonds & Jewellery Ltd and associate Forever Precious Jewellery & Diamonds, Zoom Developers, Kingfisher Airlines, Beta Naphthol and Raza Textiles
The market breadth, indicating the overall health of the market turned negative from positive
Exuding confidence in setting up a profitable banking venture, industrialist Anil Ambani on Tuesday said the proposed bank will help lower Reliance Capital's debt to one-fourth of current levels and would be listed as a separate entity in three years.
Thanks to Rajan we are an inflation-targeting country now
Telecom service operator Airtel on Thursday urged the government not to charge high fees for allotting 5G spectrum, saying a faster roll out of the next-generation telecommunication network can have more benefits than collecting revenue in upfront cost. Sunil Bharti Mittal, chairman of Bharti Enterprises which runs the country's second largest telco, said that there are a variety of applications across sectors ranging from healthcare to video interactions, which will make 5G a technology to be introduced as soon as possible. "5G is important and that's why we keep on requesting the government to make the 5G as an enabler for hundreds of things that we develop in the country, to keep the spectrum at affordable pricing, to not load the industry too much," Mittal said at the Times Network India Economic Conclave.
Sectors such as Auto, Banks, Capital Goods, FMCG, Metal, Oil & Gas and Power are trading marginally lower.
The niche banks - small finance and payments banks -have been set up to further the regulator's objective of deepening financial inclusion.
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Retail inflation inched up to 4.48 per cent in October due to an uptick in food prices, government data showed on Friday. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation was at 4.35 per cent in September and 7.61 per cent in October 2020.
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The largest e-commerce entity of China is setting up its first India office -- an indication that it intends to capture a pie of the growing e-commerce market here. Raghavendra Kamath & Alnoor Peermohamed report.
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Despite strong AUM growth, MFs lag behind other popular investment avenues. MFs received only 6 per cent of total household savings in 2021-2022.
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The S&P BSE Sensex gained 57 points to end at 26,064 and the Nifty50 climbed 17 points.
The Bharatiya Janata Party regime will have to make good on this election slogan to restore state-owned banks to health, says Rajiv Lall.
The Survey shows fiscal consolidation despite slowdown in growth.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay discusses his latest book Bandhan: The Making of a Bank at Bandhan headquarters in Kolkata.
'EV-charging is the next big opportunity after fuelling'
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Historically, it is only the third time funds raised through IPOs has crossed the Rs 10k-crore mark
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