A fresh PIL was filed on Thursday in the Supreme Court seeking a probe by multiple central government agencies under the supervision of a panel or a former apex court judge against the Adani Group of companies following allegations of fraud and share price manipulation made by the US-based Hindenburg Research.
After a sequential fall in November, due to high base and waning of the festival season effect, credit card spends have picked up again in December, recording over Rs 1 trillion for the 10th consecutive month. Latest figures released by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) show that credit card spends in December 2022 touched Rs 1.26 trillion, up 10.21 per cent compared to November. And, on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, spends were up 34.31 per cent during this period.
Terming the timing of monetary tightening by the Reserve Bank as 'a bit of a surprise', country's largest bank SBI today said the apex bank may further hike its key rates in the annual monetary policy on April 20, if inflation remains high in March as well.
Core retail segments like motor and health continue to report strong growth of 19-20 per cent with competitive intensity still visible in the motor OD (owner driven) segment. Commercial lines reported muted growth. Group health remains a key driver. Among the listed companies, ICICI Lombard continues to trail in the motor section while Star Health has lost its Y-o-Y retail market share although its better on a sequential basis.
Country's largest lender SBI on Tuesday said it is likely to raise Rs 50,000 crore (Rs 500 billion) capital for its expansion plans in domestic and overseas markets in the next three years and proposed a holding company for its non-bank subsidiaries.
The opposition leaders are expected to meet at Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge's office in the Parliament complex around 10 am, sources said.
SBI had a tough journey in the last 40 years.
After private banks, it is now the turn of large public sector banks to raise interest rates on non-resident (external) rupee (NRE) deposits after the central bank lifted the cap on rates for these deposits.
The bank's gross non-performing assets rose to 5.56 per cent of total advances at the end of June, against 4.99 per cent a year ago, reflecting the impact of slowing economy.
The domestic benchmark indices - the S&P BSE Sensex and the National Stock Exchange Nifty50 - had lost close to 1.5 per cent in three days recently before gaining slightly. Notwithstanding weakness and volatility, the Nifty50 has managed to hold on to the 18,000 mark, while the Sensex has managed to stay above the 61,000 level. The performance of the stocks that comprise these front-line indices remains polarised.
In a major step, SBI Capital Markets, India's leading investment banker, has decided to enter commodity broking and expand aggressively its online equity trading to take on competition from ICICI in the sector.
The IL&FS management is also talking to its second-largest shareholder, Orix Corporation of Japan, to infuse more funds into the company - in case any shareholder backs out during the rights issue.
Systemically important banks are subjected to higher levels of supervision to prevent disruption to financial services in the event of any failure.
SBI's net profit for the quarter rose 30.3% to Rs 2,910 crore ($468.4 million), from Rs 2,234 crore a year earlier on the back of rise in net interest income, fees, and control on employee costs.
"We have appointed SBI Caps. Soon, we would be getting feedback on what would be the short-, medium- and long-term restructuring required for Air India," Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said while speaking at an event on India Aviation 2010 international exhibition in New Delhi on Wednesday.
SBI declared a dividend of 2.60 per cent for financial year 2015-16.
"For a bank like ours, it (hike in interest rate on savings deposits) does (augurs well)... (People are) keeping Rs 9.5 lakh crore at home in cash because of the low interest rate (on savings deposits). They are not comfortable in committing money in long-term deposit," SBI Chairman Pratip Chaudhuri told reporters after the post-policy meet with the RBI Governor.
State Bank of India on Wednesday said it did not have any immediate plans to revise its home loan rates, including that of the 8 per cent special scheme originally slated to end this week.
Investment expert Sandeep Shanbhag says, "SBI MF as a fund house has a fairly decent track record and it needn't have resorted to such attention grabbing devices to generate assets under management."
SBI Card on Monday launched a co-branded card in association with leading retail chain Vishal Mega Mart to tap the booming organised retail market that is pegged to hit Rs 1,09,000 crore (Rs 1090 billion) by 2010.
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