Besides, the Australian regulator had issued licence to the bank, paving the way for it to open an office there, Bank of Baroda chairman and managing director M D Mallya said.
Leading public sector lender Bank of Baroda has been awarded the best bank of 2010, instituted by a business magazine.
Besides, the bank is going to do campus recruitment, he said, adding, 'we are planning to go to reputed institutes like IIMs and IITs'. As many as 200 management students and engineers will be hired during the year, he said. In addition to this, the bank will recruit 250 agriculture officers.
Mallya's comments came a day after country's largest lender, State Bank's Chairman O P Bhatt said that rising levels of stressed assets may push up defaults in the domestic banking system and banks need to enhance their risk management mechanisms to tackle the issue. However, BoB has a comfortable liquidity position and has its NPA levels under control, Mallya said, adding, "the bank has adequate headroom to raise capital but did not have any immediate plans to do so."
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