The bank has one of the highest current account savings account share, stable credit quality, robust credit growth, adequate capital and low cost-to-income ratio, said PNB chief Sunil Mehta.
ICAI intends to investigate the chartered accountants of PNB but the bank allegedly refuses to give the information sought.
In all, 292 allegedly fraudulent LoUs and 224 foreign letters of credit were generated and money sanctioned to Nirav Modi's companies since 2011
The challenge before the management is ensuring simultaneous disclosure of key information to stock exchanges and investigating agencies.
'I don't think it is going to be easy for India to get him back.'
Gross Non-Performing Assets rose to 12.90 per at the end of March, from 6.55 per cent a year ago.
The government has given sanction for prosecution against PNB executive director Sanjiv Sharan as part of the clean up exercise in the system.
The Union Finance Ministry on Tuesday said that aggregate business of public sector banks (PSBs) has shown strong growth of 11 per cent in the first half of the financial year 2024-25 (H1FY25) to touch Rs 236 trillion. The operating and net profit were also robust. At Rs 1.5 trillion, operating profit grew by 14.4 per cent year-on-year (Y-o-Y) while the net profit saw an impressive 25.6 per cent jump at Rs 85,520 crore in the first half of FY25.
Amid liquidity tightness in the banking system, certificate of deposit (CD) rates topped 8 per cent for some smaller banks, with rates remaining on the higher side for derivatives loss-hit IndusInd Bank. On Thursday, CSB Bank raised Rs 100 crore via one-year CDs at 8.5 per cent, while Utkarsh Small Finance Bank issued three-month CDs at 8.05 per cent to raise Rs 50 crore.
The revised rates will come into effect from April 16.
The RBI had on August 7 announced a five-member expert panel under former ICICI Bank chairman Kamath to make recommendations on the required financial parameters for recasting corporate loans.
Housing finance company (HFC) PNB Housing is planning to focus on reducing delinquencies in 2023-24.
The bank also issued 234 LoUs worth Rs 1,880 crore to another group of companies promoted by Mehul Choksi in 2015 and 2016
Punjab National Bank on Saturday increased the interest rate on Foreign Currency Non-Resident (B) Deposit Scheme for dollar, British pound, euro and Canadian and Australian dollar with effect from June 1.
"Fitch Ratings has placed Punjab National Bank's (PNB) Viability Rating of 'bb' on Rating Watch Negative (RWN), following the large fraud reported by PNB," the US-based agency said in a statement.
She was the managing director and the CEO of PNB since August 14, 2015 before being appointed in Allahabad Bank on May 6, 2017.
Kamalesh Chandra Chakrabarty has joined Punjab National Bank as its executive director and K Ramakrishnan has taken over as executive director of Bank of Baroda.
The agency on Monday questioned three general managers of the Punjab National Bank who have handled the -International Banking Division and Treasury department of the bank, officials said without revealing their identity.
According to ED sources Sunil Mehta said the fraud took place due to "systemic failure" and "procedural lapses", owing to lack of interface or proper links between the core banking software and the SWIFT interbank messaging system.
Arms dealer Sanjay Bhandari has opposed the Enforcement Directorate's (ED) plea in a Delhi court seeking to declare him a "fugitive " in connection with a black money case. Bhandari claims his stay in the UK is legal as the London High Court denied his extradition to India. The court's decision was also cited by an English court in April to deny the Indian government's request to extradite another accused in a rice-buying scam. Bhandari's lawyer argued that the ED's application was "vague, misplaced and without jurisdiction " and that the value involved in the case was less than the required Rs 100 crore to declare someone a "fugitive. " The Delhi court has sought the ED's rebuttal to Bhandari's argument by May 3.
A bench of Chief Justice G Rohini and Justice Rajiv Sahai Endlaw issued notice to the airline and the central government seeking their replies within a week on PNB's plea.
Punjab National Bank has reserved 800,000 shares of its proposed public offer for small investors holding the bank's shares worth up to Rs 100,000.
The Reserve Bank has permitted PNB to make provisions against the fraud amount.
Punjab National Bank will open representative offices in London, Shanghai and Dubai this fiscal. The London office is expected to be operational by the end of this month, S S Kohli, chairman and managing director, PNB, said.
Punjab National Bank has slashed floating home loan rates to 7.50 per cent for upto 10 years while pegging it at 7.75 per cent for 10-20 year maturity.
PNB is fully committed to its clean banking policy. That is why we are the first one to detect and report this to the various law enforcement agencies," PNB's CMD Sunil Mehta said on Thursday.
Punjab National Bank on Tuesday slashed interest rates by 15-30 basis points on non-resident rupee deposits and foreign currency bank deposit schemes.
Banks recorded a higher growth year-on-year (Y-o-Y) in raising deposits during the second quarter of financial year 2025 (Q2FY25) compared to Q1FY25, owing to intensified efforts to raise liabilities by offering higher rates and innovative schemes.
Upgradation to the new product (from Infosys) will stabilise by this month-end
Govt tells PSBs to integrate banking systems, rotate staff as a policy
Punjab National Bank joined hands with the Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services for setting up a private equity fund for investing in domestic companies mainly in telecom, oil and gas, ports, water supply and surface transport segments.
Shunning the idea of making quick money in stocks like gamblers, Punjab National Bank chief K C Chakrabarty has said that the bank's profit would rise by 20 per cent even in the current fiscal.
Punjab National Bank is planning to open a subsidiary in the United Kingdom in a bid to make its presence felt in the international arena.
About 40 per cent of the money lost by banks in the PNB scam and the fraud linked to fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya's defunct Kingfisher Airlines has been realised by way of sale of shares seized under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), the Enforcement Directorate said on Wednesday.
Lender to acquire 30% after existing shareholders divest stake
The chargesheet, filed in a special court in Mumbai, also names several other top officials of the bank.
There can't be a parallel inquiry and parallel monitoring by the courts, Attorney General K K Venugopal told the court.
The Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT) will hear the case related to the PNB Housing Finance-Carlyle deal next Monday. The order in the matter was expected on July 5, however, it was adjourned for July 12. PNB Housing had filed an appeal before the SAT against the letter issued by the Securities and Exchange Board of India last month, requesting it not to go ahead with the proposal until due diligence was done.
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