SAS, global leaders in business intelligence solutions, on Friday announced setting up of its largest research and development centre in Pune, as it expects the Indian market to grow by 27 per cent and generate $87.4 billion worth business by 2009.
Foreign banks were ahead in terms of technology, but that is no longer the case as Indian private banks steal the innovation march.
Indian depository receipts (IDR) are set to get going after a long gestation period of six years with Standard Chartered Bank filing a red herring prospectus to raise up to $750 million.
The Reserve Bank of India has rejected Essar Communications' application to pledge its equity in Hutchison Essar Ltd to Standard Chartered Bank, London.
Citibank is no longer quite the king of the Indian credit card market. It has been dethroned by ICICI Bank, which now claims it has 3 million credit cards.
United Spirits Ltd (USL), flagship spirits company of the UB Group, has finally decided on foreign currency convertible bonds (FCCBs) to raise as much as $225 million (Rs 1,190 crore). The plan is to raise up to $175 million, plus an over-allotment option of $50 million.
Captive centres set up by multinational corporations in India are posing a serious threat to the domestic outsourcing companies.
Telecom infrastructure major GTL Infrastructure will use its Rs 2,200 crore cash reserves to buy back foreign currency convertible bonds.
Buoyed by good quality assets and liabilities of the merged entity of Grindlays Bank, the Standard Chartered Bank on Wednesday announced a 121 per cent growth in post-tax profit of Rs 848 crore (Rs 8.480 billion) for the year ended March 31, 2003.
The kind of hiring MNCs are doing in India makes it clear call centre operations are no longer the only thing on their minds.
In the case of Iran, the lifting of sanctions has paved the way for direct relations.
Standard Chartered Bank on Tuesday announced a special variable rate offer of 7.49 per cent per annum for home loans across all tenures up to 20 years.
Standard Chartered Bank, which has completed 10 years in credit card business in India, has introduced an equated monthly instalment card.
Scope International, a wholly owned subsidiary of Standard Chartered Bank, is planning to get its additional facility at Chennai ready by this November, a top official of the company said in Chennai on Monday.
A civil court on Tuesday ordered Standard Chartered Bank (StanChart) to pay "exemplary" damages of Rs 2.5 lakh to Vinay Kumar Sood who was constantly harassed and insulted for not paying dues on a credit card he neither received nor utilised.
The debate over working hours flared up after Infosys Co-founder N R Narayana Murthy called for 14-hour workdays.
Standard Chartered Bank on Monday launched in India its Visa Mini card, which is almost half the size of a regular credit card, targetted at the growing young-earner segment.
UK-headquartered Standard Chartered Bank is set to become the third foreign player to enter the Indian retail stock brokerage business by buying a 49 per cent stake in UTI Securities for Rs 140-150 crore.
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Monday gave its approval to Jio for the acquisition of Reliance Infratel (RITL). The tribunal asked Jio to deposit Rs 3,720 crore in the State Bank of India (SBI) escrow account to complete the acquisition of RCOM's tower and fibre assets. On November 6, Jio had proposed to deposit Rs 3,720 crore in an escrow account to complete the acquisition of Reliance Infratel which is undergoing an insolvency resolution process.
The Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS hailed its expansion from 17 to 114 companies and praised member firms like Standard Chartered Bank PLC, Tata Steel and Daimler-Chrysler.\n
Patanjali, the lone player left in contention after the exit of Adani Wilmar, had last month increased its bid value by around Rs 200 crore to Rs 4,350 crore for Ruchi Soya.
Leading runners from Kenya and Tanzania have confirmed for the January 21 run, which has a prize pool of US $2,30,000.
