Lenders had asked the management to come up with a revival plan and $1 billion capital infusion.
The improving outlook for the power sector has caught the interest of dividend yield funds. In the first four months of the current financial year (2023-24, or FY24), five of the six largest dividend yield funds have shown a notable increase in their exposure to stocks within the power sector. Some have even introduced new stocks to their portfolios.
Leading private financial players HSBC and ICICI Prudential along with country's largest bank SBI have been shortlisted to manage about Rs 25,000 crore (Rs 250 billion) in provident fund of about four crore employees annually.
Citing a weak manufacturing sector coupled with the steep margin compression, SBI Research has pencilled in the country's GDP growth for the second quarter at 5.8 per cent, down 30 basis points from average estimates. The government will release the official numbers on November 30. In a report on Monday, SBI Research headed by Soumya Kanti Ghosh said corporate results, operating profit of companies, excluding banking and financial sector, degrew by 14 per cent in Q2FY23 as against 35 per cent growth in Q2FY22, though the top line continued to grow at a healthier pace.
SBI to e-auction over 300 properties on March 14.
Analysts say domestic banks' dependence on local depositors insulates them from the crisis.
The website will provide information in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali, Kannada and Punjabi.
SBI's overall gross NPA as on end-December 2013 was close to Rs 68,000 crore ( Rs 680 billion) or 5.73 per cent of its gross advances.
The bookings for Rs 1 lakh Nano car by the Tata Motors are pouring in from all parts of the country as the sole booking agent SBI said it has distributed lakhs of applications for the world's cheapest car.
The State Bank of India hopes to upgrade its Representative Office in Shanghai soon into a full-fledged branch and commence normal banking operations by early next year, sources said on Tuesday.
The State Bank of India, the country's largest bank, has had to shut down its corporate website after overseas hackers tried to break in.
"We humbly request to you to alleviate some of the hardships that we and engineers have been facing, by ensuring that the new Jet management does not further delay our pending salaries dues at the earliest," NAG general secretary Tej Sood said in an e-mail to SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar.
On the day P Chidambaram took charge as the Union finance minister, the country's largest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), brought interest rate relief to its new home and automobile loan customers.
Among the Sensex firms, ICICI Bank and SBI led the index with the maximum gains of 4.68 per cent and 3.99 per cent, respectively. Other major gainers were Larsen & Toubro, Kotak Mahindra Bank and HDFC Bank. On the other hand, Wipro and Tata Motors defied the trend and traded in negative.
Realty, Capital goods, Bankex among key draggers; HDFC and Sun Pharma bucks trend.
SBI's home loans, which offer a lower interest rate in the initial years and rate increases in the later years, were termed teaser loans by the Reserve Bank of India.
Home, auto and other retail loans from SBI and Union Bank of India will cost more, with the two public sector banks on Thursday announcing an identical 0.5 hike in their benchmark prime lending rates to protect margins.
A large number of women from Malom in Imphal West district blocked the road to the airport in protest against the killing of the policemen in Moreh.
Indian banks are the 2nd-fastest-growing ones.
'SBI is already too big. Too big to fail.' 'It already is a moral hazard. What will it do with 20,000 branches that it cannot do with 14,000, especially in these days of online and mobile banking?'
Kingfisher promoter Vijay Mallya is ready to infuse Rs 425 crore (Rs 4.25 billion) into the airline and restart its limited operations as soon as DGCA gives a go-ahead, the lead lender to the grounded carrier SBI said.
Though the economy is recovering, the non-performing assets (NPAs) may rise further because the asset quality will improve only with a lag effect, says O P Bhatt.
SBI, which accounts for about a quarter of India's loans and deposits, said standalone net profit fell about 8 per cent from a year earlier to Rs 30.41 billion ($519.8 million) in its fiscal fourth quarter to March 31.
Sequentially, the loss widened from Rs 2,416.37 crore in the third quarter ended December 2017.
State Bank of India on Tuesday ruled out physical merger of its associate banks with itself in the near future but said "virtual merger" of the entities was on.
They also warned that banks will start reporting higher non-performing assets after September, once the six-month moratorium on loan repayment ends.
State Bank of India has received the permission from the Chinese Government to lend in the local currency -Yuan, a top official said on Thursday
Reliance Industries Ltd was the biggest wealth creator during the five-year period from 2018 to 2023 while Adani Enterprises Ltd was the top all-round wealth creator, according to a study by Motilal Oswal Financial Services. The study, based on stock market performance of companies, said for the fifth time in succession, Reliance emerged as the largest wealth creator, adding Rs 9,63,800 crore wealth over 2018-23. It was followed by Tata Consultancy Services (Rs 6,77,400 crore wealth addition), ICICI Bank (Rs 4,15,500 crore), Infosys (Rs 3,61,800 crore) and Bharti Airtel (Rs 2,80,800 crore).
This cashless transaction is a part of corporate debt restructuring agreed by banks and the airline company.
SBI, the country's largest lender, first announced a rate cut of 0.25 per cent in its home loan rates on Thursday, forcing HDFC, the second biggest home loan financier, to respond.
Wilful defaulters owe SBI Rs 80,000 crore. 10 nationalised banks are owed another Rs 1.5 trillion.
SBI Cards, the second largest issuer of credit cards, has topped the list of complaints from credit cardholders, with the banking ombudsman receiving 2,654 complaints against it. ICICI Bank, the largest credit card issuer, with 1,451 complaints follows SBI Cards in the list.
Among Sensex stocks, Wipro gained the most by 3.29 per cent. Ultratech Cement, Reliance Industries, Hindustan Unilever, Nestle, NTPC, M&M, HDFC Bank, ITC, Kotak Bank and Axis Bank were among the winners. On the other hand, HCL Tech fell the most by 1.24 per cent. SBI, TCS, Infosys, IndusInd Bank and Tata Steel also dropped.
