News for 'Standard Chartered'

Mumbai Marathon prize-money raised

Mumbai Marathon prize-money raised

Rediff.com12 Jan 2007

Leading runners from Kenya and Tanzania have confirmed for the January 21 run, which has a prize pool of US $2,30,000.

SMS just made banking easy

SMS just made banking easy

Rediff.com3 Nov 2005

StanChart to expand India biz

StanChart to expand India biz

Rediff.com29 Apr 2004

Standard Chartered Bank is looking for appropriate acquisitions, including asset portfolio to grow its business presence in India, one of the fastest growing markets in the world.

ICICI Bank is Asia's 2nd best retail bank

ICICI Bank is Asia's 2nd best retail bank

Rediff.com2 Aug 2005

ICICI Bank edged past foreign banking majors Citibank and Standard Chartered Bank to emerge as the best retail bank in India, according to the latest issue of 'Asian Banker Journal'.

StanChart launches PF plan

StanChart launches PF plan

Rediff.com24 Feb 2004

Shivdan, Lone to spearhead Indian challenge

Shivdan, Lone to spearhead Indian challenge

Rediff.com14 Feb 2004

The Services runners should give the fancied foreign runners a good fight inthe Sunday's Mumbai Marathon.

Sabre, Tamasek float $5 bn fund

Sabre, Tamasek float $5 bn fund

Rediff.com5 Jul 2005

Health check for healers: The big audit firms are under the NFRA lens

Health check for healers: The big audit firms are under the NFRA lens

Rediff.com17 Jan 2024

In recent times, more and more audit firms have challenged company managements, some going to the extent of resigning on the ground of incompatibility with what the management wanted or was doing. This, said Ajay Bhushan Pandey, chairman of the National Financial Regulatory Authority (NFRA), in a media interview, was a good sign. Now, the national accounting watchdog has turned the spotlight on audit firms themselves.

Mallya finds a needed backer in Diageo

Mallya finds a needed backer in Diageo

Rediff.com18 Aug 2014

Diageo, which recently coughed up a total of Rs 18,000 crore (Rs 180 billion) to take majority control of USL, seems to have a lot of faith in him.

Top field for Mumbai Marathon

Top field for Mumbai Marathon

Rediff.com13 Jan 2004

The world's top ten men and women long distance runners have confirmed for the February 15 event.

Take wing with co-branded cards

Take wing with co-branded cards

Rediff.com7 Apr 2005

Debt funds making a comeback

Debt funds making a comeback

Rediff.com28 Jun 2006

NDTV, Shell among 18 FDI proposals cleared

NDTV, Shell among 18 FDI proposals cleared

Rediff.com22 Sep 2003

The government on Monday cleared 18 foreign direct investment proposals involving Rs 118.93 crore including Standard Chartered Private Equity's plan to pick up 14.35 per cent stake in NDTV for Rs 52.88 crore.

Credit card base of major issuers erodes in Q2 over RBI's norms

Credit card base of major issuers erodes in Q2 over RBI's norms

Rediff.com31 Oct 2022

Credit card issuers saw significant erosion of their card base during the July-September quarter as the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) norms mandated deactivation of cards that have been inactive for a year. The second quarter of the current financial year saw outstanding cards-in-force decline by 2.55 million to 77.7 million. Prior to this, the industry, on an average, was witnessing a net addition of over 1.5 million credit cards a month as players became aggressive on the unsecured lending business after the pandemic.

Foreign banks see M&As after amendment in Act

Foreign banks see M&As after amendment in Act

Rediff.com20 Aug 2003

Foreign players like Citibank, Standard Chartered Bank, HSBC and ABN Amro Bank see opportunities to spread their wings in India after the ceiling on voting rights is lifted by the government.

Former Barclays banker Ashok Vaswani to head Kotak Mahindra Bank

Former Barclays banker Ashok Vaswani to head Kotak Mahindra Bank

Rediff.com23 Oct 2023

Ashok Vaswani, a banker with more than three-and-half decades experience in building and scaling up businesses across consumer and corporate banking and payments, will be the next managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Kotak Mahindra Bank. Last week, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had given its approval to Vaswani's appointment. Vaswani is currently President of Pagaya Technologies, a US-Israeli artificial intelligence (AI) fintech firm, which he joined in June 2022.

Stanchart launches equity fund

Stanchart launches equity fund

Rediff.com19 Apr 2006

Standard Chartered Mutual Fund on Wednesday launched a close-ended Enterprise Equity Fund that\nwould invest 10 per cent of its corpus in public offerings.

Trouble getting a home loan?

Trouble getting a home loan?

Rediff.com4 Apr 2006

Tata Steel, StanChart praised, prodded on AIDS

Tata Steel, StanChart praised, prodded on AIDS

Rediff.com12 Jun 2003

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

India's apex bank fines 7 banks

India's apex bank fines 7 banks

Rediff.com24 Jan 2006

The fine was imposed in the exercise of powers vested in the RBI under the provisions of Section 47 A (1) (b) of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949.

Rono, Seboka win Mumbai marathon

Rono, Seboka win Mumbai marathon

Rediff.com17 Jan 2006

I ran the Mumbai Marathon

I ran the Mumbai Marathon

Rediff.com16 Jan 2006

Did you participate in the Mumbai Marathon 2006? Tell us about it.

Run for a cause

Run for a cause

Rediff.com11 Jan 2006

StanChart to open 23 more branches in 2003

StanChart to open 23 more branches in 2003

Rediff.com4 Feb 2003

To mark its 150th year of inception, Standard Chartered Bank would strengthen its presence in the country and open 23 new branches and 81 ATMs in this calendar year.

Mumbai Marathon on January 15

Mumbai Marathon on January 15

Rediff.com28 Oct 2005

Around 30,000 runners are expected to participate in the third edition of the Standard Chartered event.