With more players, products and rising consciousness about the need for insurance, the market has to grow. As for the team, the existing management team continues (at ICICI Prudential) to be there. The team has built a solid business, an excellent brand. The systems are in place, so it is a good stepping stone, says Vaidyanathan.
ICICI Bank has cut floating benchmark lending rate for home loans by 50 basis points to 13.25 per cent and deposit rate by 25-50 basis points.
From the Sensex pack, Bharti Airtel, HDFC Bank, Titan, UltraTech Cement, ITC, Sun Pharma, Bajaj Finserv, Bajaj Finance, Hindustan Unilever and Kotak Mahindra Bank were among the major gainers. Tata Steel, Axis Bank, NTPC, ICICI Bank and IndusInd Bank were the major laggards.
InterGlobe Aviation, the operator of India's leading airline IndiGo, delivered a better than expected performance across most parameters in Q2FY24. The company posted its fourth consecutive quarter of net profit of Rs 188 crore. It had reported a loss of Rs 1,583 crore in the same quarter a year ago.
A spokesperson of ICICI Bank, which had approached the regulator seeking a probe into what they called 'beating down' of their shares by vested elements, declined to comment.
Reliance Capital Asset Management Company (RCAM) and ICICI Securities Primary Dealership have been selected to manage Rs 60,000 crore (Rs 600 billion) provident fund corpus of coal industry workers.
HDFC Bank, India's second-largest private bank, has overtaken ICICI Bank, the largest private player, in terms of market capitalisation to top the rankings among private banks.
JPMorgan said it had hired Kalpana Morparia, one of India 's most senior domestic bankers, to run its operations in the country.
ICICI Bank has raised its interest rates on non-resident external rupee savings account, NRE fixed deposits and foreign currency non-resident deposits.
As part of its rural initiative, ICICI Bank is developing a low cost ATM to cater to the villages in India.
ICICI Bank, India's second largest bank, was awarded 'The Best Retail Internet Bank Award in India-2004' and 'The Best Corporate/Institutional Internet Bank Award in India-2004' by internationally acclaimed Global Finance magazine.
"The corporate pipeline is still strong, which will lead growth. We expect to maintain a 15-16 per cent year-on-year credit growth," ICICI Bank's Joint Managing Director Chanda Kochhar told reporters in Mumbai on Tuesday. On ICICI Bank's microfinance portfolio, she said that the bank has covered more than 3-million customers under this portfolio.
In a memorable year for the equity market, Dalal Street investors added a whopping Rs 81.90 lakh crore to their wealth in 2023 as a raft of positive factors powered a stellar rally in stocks. Experts said India's strong macroeconomic fundamentals, political stability owing to the BJP's success in recent elections in three significant states, optimistic corporate earnings outlook, signals from the US Federal Reserve about three prospective rate cuts next year and heavy retail investors participation played a major role in fuelling the stock market rally in 2023. In the year 2023, the 30-share BSE Sensex jumped 11,399.52 points or 18.73 per cent.
Of the top 10 valued firms, eight including Reliance Industries, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), HDFC Bank, Hindustan Unilever Ltd, HDFC and ITC witnessed gains in their market valuation. From the top-10 pack, the valuation of HDFC Bank jumped Rs 31,553.45 crore to Rs 929,752.54 crore.
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The country's largest private lender ICICI Bank on Monday said that interest rates are expected to come down in the next one-and-a-half months.
The RBI said it had not found initial evidence of money laundering against the three banks.
ICICI Bank plans to raise $300 million through issuance of Eurobonds in the international markets as the first tranche of its $1 billion medium term notes programme.
The overall market breadth was positive as 1,796 stocks advanced against 1,023 declining ones, on the BSE.
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M&M was the top loser in the Sensex pack, skidding 3.31 per cent, followed by Reliance Industries, Bajaj Finserv, ICICI Bank, Maruti, Tata Motors and Tech Mahindra. On the other hand, Tata Steel, L&T, Axis Bank, Bharti Airtel and HDFC Bank were among the gainers.
Prime Minister's Office wants CBI and tax dept to identify the actual beneficiaries of the transactions made in India and abroad.
The country's largest private sector bank, ICICI Bank on Monday ruled out any acquisition abroad and said it would wait for another 2-4 weeks to decide on whether to revise the interest rates further.
ICICI Bank has reported a decline in its quarterly net profit for the first time since its merger with ICICI.
A special court in Mumbai on Saturday remanded ICICI Bank's former CEO and MD Chanda Kochhar and her husband Deepak Kochhar in the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till December 26 in connection with alleged cheating and irregularities in loans sanctioned by the bank to Videocon Group companies. The Kochhars were arrested by the probe agency on Friday night after a brief questioning session. The CBI has alleged that they were evasive in their response and did not cooperate in the investigation.
From the Sensex pack, State Bank of India, HDFC, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank, Bharti Airtel, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank, Tata Motors, NTPC and Bajaj Finserv were the major gainers.
Chanda Kochhar, who was arrested for a cash-for-loan scam on Friday, was once a powerful banker and instrumental in making ICICI Bank the country's biggest private sector lender. Kochhar, a regular feature on Forbes top global honchos lists, was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) along with her husband Deepak Kochhar in connection with alleged cheating and irregularities in loans sanctioned by ICICI Bank to Videocon Group companies. Kochhars were called to the agency headquarters and arrested after a brief questioning session. Her chapter at ICICI Bank ended abruptly in 2018 when the board of directors approved a request from Kochhar to seek early retirement following allegation of corruption and quid pro-quo while extending loans to the now bankrupt Videocon Industries.
ICICI Bank has quashed rumours of favouritism, nepotism and quid pro quo. The bank clarified that while Chanda Kochhar was on the credit committee, she was not the chairperson. Videocon Chairman Venugopal Dhoot said there was no impropriety in the deal.
Sundaram Multi Pap, a Mumbai-based paper stationery manufacturer, on Monday disowned exotic hedging contracts entered into with ICICI Bank, saying the bank had misled the company into taking derivatives positions much beyond their underlying export risks.
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ICICI Bank Ltd on Wednesday opened its first overseas offshore branch in Singapore.
US-based boutique investment company GQG Partners has shot into limelight with its Rs 15,446-crore Adani wager.
Private sector lender ICICI Bank on Monday launched a facility which allows account-holders to transfer funds through Twitter.
The board of ICICI Bank, the country's second-largest lender, will take a final call on appointing a successor to K V Kamath, its present managing director and chief executive officer, next month.
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