A recent press report said that Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Limited has planned to raise about Rs 1,000 crore before end-2011 or in the fourth quarter of this fiscal. Mr. Anil Sachidanand, CEO, DHFC, told the press that the company was planning to raise capital of Rs. 750 crore to Rs 1,000 crore before this… Read More »
A recent press report said that Corporation Bank has said that despite the continuous rise in interest rates, there has not been any corresponding rise in defaults. A top official of the bank told the press that there has not been any rise in defaults in the recent time, in spite of repeated policy rate… Read More »
According to a recent research report from Crisil the rising interest rates are likely to push up the equated monthly installments (EMIs) of home loan borrowers by Rs 6,000 crore annually. Reports said that the higher EMIs and a slowdown in economic growth will cause in the rise of non-performing assets (NPAs) of financiers. It… Read More »
A recent press report said that banks are planning to improve their car loan book this festive season. SBI and HDFC have reduced their margin requirements for Tata’s Nano to Rs. 15000. If the borrower opts to take loan from Punjab National Bank then no margin money has to be paid for the Nano. Reports… Read More »
According to latest data released by the Reserve Bank of India, banks advances in the sectors like non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), industry, personal loans and services have remained healthy in the month of August. Reports said that the credit off-take in the services sector, led by a 55 per cent growth in advances in the… Read More »
According to a recent press report, the agreement between Franco-Belgian Bank and Dexia Bank has been broken up and has become partly nationalised. This is because the funding squeeze has crashed the bank as a sign of warning about the European struggling lenders. The rescue of Dexia thereby is likely to pose a global credit… Read More »
A recent report released in Basel by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) along with the agreement of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of the Macroeconomic Assessment Group (MAG) has said that the shift to stronger standards for global systemically important banks (G-SIBs) in advanced and emerging economies after… Read More »
A recent press report said that more than 8 cooperative banks have failed in this fiscal resulting in credit insurance company DICGC paying a little over Rs. 143 crore to depositors. Reports said that the eight cooperative banks include four are from Maharashtra, three from Karnataka and one from Gujarat. In the previous financial year,… Read More »
A recent press report said that the Finance Ministry has favored in setting up of white-level ATMs in the country in order to increases the diffusion of banking services. White-level ATMs are not owned by banks but by private ATM service providers. Such ATMs will help take banking services to remote places. Besides, it will… Read More »
According to a recent press report, Reserve Bank of India’s chief has said that rupee has been depreciating continuously for last few months which have affected the import cost. He suggested that as a result of this problem, the growth of central bank has been declined and the foreign exchange rate is influenced by market… Read More »