After reducing its retail loan book for 7 quarters right from the start of 2008-09, ICICI Bank has started increasing its loan book. The loan book of the bank, including car loans has posted an increase of Rs. 1,81,206 crore on 31st March 2010 as against Rs 179,269 crore in the earlier quarter.
RBI has ultimately permitted banks to increase the target date for meeting the bad loans provision coverage ratio of 70% after September 2010. The date has been increased till September 2011. But banking giants viz. SBI and ICICI Bank have obtained the extension only up to March 2011.
Bank loans including personal loans increased by 17% on year as on April 9, the apex bank’s weekly statistical supplement (WSS) stated. Deposits were hiked 16% from a year back. Outstanding loans went up by Rs. 8.26 billion ($186 million) to Rs. 32.41 trillion in the 2 weeks up to April 9.
The Rameshs currently are saving/investing only about 14% of their total income. This is way below the national average of 28%. They need to create a budget tracker and enter details on a regular basis to find where they are spending more. They need to start this immediately as they will face a severe cash… Read More »
As a fall out of the financial crisis the RBI came up with the idea of a Financial Stability Unit to monitor the economy and carry out regular stress testing and creating related reports. The current report has mentioned that the first FSR has indicated concerns relating to rising inflation, government borrowing and capital flows.… Read More »
Some banks have indicated that because of sufficient liquidity in the system at this point, they may not hike the lending rates. This would mean loan customers need not worry about increase in EMs at this point. But sooner than later, hike in lending rate is imminent. So loan customers, be prepared for your EMIs… Read More »
In effect this will mean that almost close to Rs 12500 crores will be taken out of circulation. Meaning there will be a reduction in loans being given out at least at the lower spectrum or alternatively and practically this could lead to increase in interest rates, more competition among banks to get customers (better… Read More »
Teaser loan schemes are personalized products introduced in the market in order to entice more clients. Although most of the banks have stopped offering teaser loans, SBI and HDFC Bank still offer these loans. With these schemes the customer can make a choice and reduce the interest rate during the initial years of the loan.
The fiscal 2009-10 saw a dull performance by the personal loan segment, according to the macroeconomic report from the RBI. The rivals of personal loans, viz education loan and home loans however did not display such poor performance. While personal loans showed a 4.7% increase last fiscal as against to 6.6% growth last year, its… Read More »
Public sector bank, Bank of Baroda intends to open 12 foreign branches this fiscal. M D Mallya, CMD of the bank said, “By June, we will have a branch in Auckland and we will open our tenth branch in the United Kingdom. This fiscal, we also plan to expand in the African subcontinent and would… Read More »