SBI eyes Rs 25,000 crore via record QIP, sets floor at 2.5% discount

State Bank of India (SBI), the largest lender in the country, has launched a share sale to institutional investors to raise upto Rs 25,000 crore, the biggest qualified institutional placement (QIP)......

State Bank of India led MF buys in July with Rs 10,000 crore QIP bet

Mutual funds (MFs) — flush with cash amid record inflows in July — invested heavily in the Rs 25,000-crore qualified institutional placement (QIP) of India's largest lender State Bank of India......

Brokerages divided on Coforge-Encora deal

Coforge’s planned $2.35 billion all-stock acquisition of US-based Enc­ora has divided the Street, with a few brokerages terming it a “strategically positive” but exe­cution-heavy bet while......

Loan growth, profitability seen improving for public sector banks

The Indian banking sector could be due for a rise in profitability after several quarters of net interest margin (NIM) compression. Photograph: Ajay Verma/Reuters The Q2FY26 results suggest NIMs......