Banking operations across the country may be impacted on Thursday as some bank unions would be joining the one-day nationwide strike called by central trade unions. Ten central trade unions, except Bharatiya Mazdoor Sangh, will observe the nationwide general strike to protest against various policies of the central government. Many lenders, including IDBI Bank and Bank of Maharashtra, in regulatory filings on Wednesday said their normal working could be affected at the branches and offices.
The possibility of this is inextricably linked with the Unique ID project.
SBI has reduced deposit rates by 40 to 50 basis points across maturities. On deposits for a period of one year up to two years, the bank has reduced interest rates by 40 basis points to 8.10 per cent. And, deposits for any length of time between two years and 1,000 days would now earn an interest of 8.5 per cent against 9 per cent earlier. Other lenders are expected to follow suit.
NBFCs are facing the heat of a crisis at IL&FS, which defaulted on repayment of its commercial paper dues, leading to a contagion effect in the sector.
After due deliberations, the lenders have decided to seek resolution for Jet Airways under the bankruptcy code since only a conditional bid was received.
The central government is looking to strengthen the boards of public sector banks (PSBs) by specifying terms of office and conditions of service for whole-time directors, and also seeking disclosures from all directors about interests in other companies. Through the Banking Laws Amendment Bill, the government is likely to introduce conditions for disqualification of whole-time and independent directors which are not specified in the current legislation. The Centre is seeking to introduce fresh changes that are aimed at strengthening the boards of PSBs, and holding their directors accountable, an official said.
SBI clearly needs to use information technology extensively to overcome the management challenge created by its size
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The penalty was levied in connection with deficiencies and lapses in the operation and maintenance of the currency chest at the Secunderabad branch of SBI, it said. Last month, the RBI had imposed a penalty of Rs 3 crore (Rs 30 million) on SBI for violating know your customer/anti-money laundering norms.
In his letter to President Droupadi Murmu, SCBA President Adish C Aggarwala urged her to seek presidential reference of the apex court judgement in the electoral bonds scheme case.
The bank has already set up 68,000 'Yono cashpoints' and is in the process of scaling it up massively to over 1 million in the next 18 months, which will make the necessity to have a card even less.
The home loan scheme offers a discount in the interest rate for the first three years. The interest rate structure of the scheme remains unchanged, said a top SBI official.
Every employee on an average contributed Rs 650,000 to the bank's profit in the last fiscal.
If you want to apply for a job at State Bank of India (SBI), any default on loans or credit card payment will render your ineligible.
Cites steep rise in provisioning for restructured standard assets.
The new rates would be effective from Friday.
Most of the public sector lenders, including Punjab National Bank, Bank of Baroda and Canara Bank, have hiked their lending rates after the Reserve Bank of India increased its short-term lending (repo) and borrowing (reverse-repo) rates by up to 50 basis points on July 27.
This package also offers automatic sweep to multi-option deposits ensuring higher yield on the salary savings and also free personal accident insurance, it said.
As many as 26 premises are being searched in these cities by the federal agency under the criminal sections of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act, they said.
State Bank of India has raised interest rates on the domestic term deposits by 0.25 to 0.50 per cent across various maturities effective from November 29.
Announcing the reduction in interest rate, SBI managing director and group executive (national banking) A Krishna Kumar said the base rate will also remain unchanged at 10 per cent.
India's largest public sector lender State Bank of India has put on hold the financing of new tractors and other capital equipment, a move that can have an impact on agriculture sector, a priority area for the government.
SBI fixed its base rate, the minimum lending rate, at 7.5 per cent which would replace its benchmark prime lending rate from Thursday.
Defending the timing of Yes Bank's moratorium, Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das on Friday assured swift resolution to the issues concerning the beleaguered lender. "The resolution (to Yes Bank) will be done very swiftly, it will be done very fast. 30 days which we have given is the outer limit. You will see a very swift action from RBI," Das told reportters in Mumbai.
State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman O P Bhatt said the bank might raise deposit rates next week, at least by 50 basis points. However, he ruled out any increase in the base rate or the benchmark prime lending rate in December.
'SBI Exclusif' and 'SBI InCube' were rolled out in Bengaluru.
"Rates are high and obviously it is hurting the industry. We are all hoping for that (lending rates to fall). In the long term, one of the things that will make industry viable and investment come back is to have lower lending rates," Diwakar Gupta, managing director and chief financial officer of SBI, said on Wednesday.
The number of applications has nearly doubled in the home and auto loan segments after the recent reduction in interest rates in these segments.
Tata Consultancy Services and State Bank of India on Monday launched a joint venture to provide advanced technology solutions and world-class domain consulting for the banking and financial services sector.
The nation's largest lender State Bank of India today said it will not hike its lending rates immediately but will wait for further signals from the Reserve Bank's forthcoming annual monetary policy.
Two leading banks, State Bank of India and HDFC Bank, have sought permission from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to buy gold from retail investors.
RBI on Tuesday took steps to discourage teaser loan rate schemes, which have a fixed component initially before becoming floating, in order to rein in 'loose practices in pricing of risks in the housing sector'.
SBI reduced interest rates for minor irrigation loans upto Rs 25 lakhs to eight per cent in the first one year and nine per cent in the second and third years. The existing rates in this category is 10.5 per cent-13,25 per cent.
'All account holders of the bank who have not yet complied with the KYC guidelines are hereby requested to make their accounts KYC compliant by contacting their home branches and completing the required documentation latest by October 31,' SBI said in a notice. Failing to comply with the guidelines would result in the freezing of account operations, it said.
SBI last reduced its lending rate in January by cutting it by 0.05 per cent.
State Bank of India is planning to set up an information technology company for which it is scouting for a joint venture partner, Arun Kumar Purwar, chairman, SBI, has said.
The fund used to fight the coronavirus pandemic will be spent from CSR funds.
SBI sources in Thiruvananthapuram said a recent circular from the bank's headquarters stated that pregnancy need not be considered a bar for giving immediate postings to women candidates, who had passed the written test and interviews.
SBI was slow in filing and following up on winding-up cases.
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