Earlier, the Reserve Bank of India was the approving authority.
At a time when retrenchment has almost become synonymous with financial companies, state-run Union Bank of India is looking to hire 5,000 people at different levels to support its branch expansion plans.
After private banks - HDFC Bank and Axis bank - decided to charge own customers for more than five transactions at their ATMs, public sector lender Union Bank of India has also joined the bandwagon.
A Ganesh Nadar/Rediff.com attends Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman's presser in Chennai to tom-tom the government's achievements in its first 100 days in office.
The RBI Deputy Governor, V Leeladhar has joined the board of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development.
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.
The prosecution's pursuit of this tiny detail was because they believed the charge from Google, on Indrani's account, was to restore Sheena's Gmail account, via the Google account recovery toolkit, since Indrani did not have the password.
Rajan said the RBI is working on upgrading the capabilities of its inspectors to undertake bank system audits as well as to detect vulnerabilities in them
Manish Khera, chief executive officer, Fino, tells Shriya Bubna that the smart card technology platform of Fino can help banks cut operational costs by one-third and MFIs, but connectivity remains an issue.
Customers will not be charged for ATM withdrawals from April 1, Reserve Bank of India deputy governor V Leeladhar announced in Mumbai on Monday.
Union Bank of India said HDFC Mutual Fund tied up with the bank to distribute its mutual fund schemes across India.
SBI got Rs 1.93 lakh cr in cash deposits from November 10-25.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
Union Bank of India will bring banking services to the doorsteps of over 2.5 lakh hawkers in Mumbai by partnering with their association and FINO Fintec, a micro finance institution.
Global rating agency Fitch has upgraded its support ratings for several Indian banks, including ICICI Bank, HDFC, Punjab National Bank, Canara Bank, Bank of India and IDBI among others.
A bench of Justices Arun Mishra and U U Lalit said, if home buyers are not ready to pay their outstanding amount, then the court will have to bundle up the projects.
Less than a month after five financial institutions sold 20 per cent in the National Stock Exchange, a consortium of five stakeholders led by State Bank of India are looking to sell an 11 per cent stake in the exchange.
According to sources close to the developments, major PSU banks -- State Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, and Union Bank of India -- were likely to review the deposit rates for a possible upward move.
The government will raise at least Rs 2,250 crore (Rs 22.5billion) for selling its residual stake in the country's top carmaker Maruti Udyog Ltd to banks and financial institutions, as it has fixed a floor price of Rs 760 a share.
UV Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd has made the highest bid of Rs 16,000 crore to buy Anil Ambani group's Reliance Communications and Reliance Telecom, which are in the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). Last year it was the highest bidder for taking over Aircel's assets for an upfront payment of Rs 150 crore. Surajeet Das Gupta and Dev Chatterjee dig deeper to find out more about this little known company.
Six nationalised banks, including Canara Bank and Bank of Baroda, on Wednesday signed an agreement with Indian Railways for setting up more than 700 ATMs at railway stations across the country.
DLF, Indiabulls Real Estate, HDIL, YES Bank, Union Bank of India and Maruti Suzuki are down 4-12% on NSE.
Of the total 53,334 cases of frauds reported during 2008-09 and 2018-19 fiscal years, involving a whopping Rs 2.05 lakh crore, a highest of 6,811 cases were reported by the ICICI Bank.
ICICI Bank, Union Bank of India, Central Bank of India and Dena Bank have all hiked interest rates on NRE and FCNR fixed deposits from January 1.
The state-owned carrier Indian has finally made its way into the e-ticketing club.
Coming out of its self-imposed shell, Union Bank of India, the fifth largest public sector bank in the country, is moving forward to opening branches overseas. The bank has over 2,000 branches across India, but no branch overseas.
Union Bank of India has posted a net profit of Rs 1435.80 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2002 (DQ-02) as compared to Rs 990.10 million in the quarter ended December 31, 2001 (DQ-01).
The Union Bank of India has revised downwards the interest rates applicable to its dollar-denominated FCNR (B) and NRE (Rupee) term deposits.
'The snakes and ladders game will continue till the consolidation process is complete simply because we don't know how bad the scene is, with some of the banks being merged,' says Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Ajit Mishra, vice president, Research, Religare Broking, answers your queries.
With hike in deposit rate for expatriates, RBI has reversed the trend of fall in NRI deposits and ensured that banks have additional funds to lend to needy sector of the economy.
The main reason was that CPI inflation would likely remain below 4 per cent till July.
The Reserve Bank has asked the public to pay their income tax dues well in advance so as to avoid standing in long queues and stated that 29 agency banks are also authorised to accept such payments.
Bankers expect a stable interest rate this year after Finance Minister P Chidambaram promised to keep government borrowings lower than the budgeted Rs 1,00,836 crore (Rs 1008.36 billion) during 2005-06.
The Reserve Bank of India's move to raise ceiling on NRE rupee deposits have prompted IDBI, Union Bank of India and Yes Bank to increase interest rates on fixed deposits of non-resident Indians.\n\n
