Recent reports said that the State Bank of Hyderabad (SBH) is planning to tap their business potential in salary accounts of corporate. Ms Renu Challu Managing Director State Bank of Hyderabad said that Salary accounts are a focus segment for the bank. The bank offers a ‘Smart Salary Account’ package with zero balance and a… Read More »
A recent press report said that Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) and Union Bank of India,India’s largest state-owned banks, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for salary disbursement of KVS employees across the country. According to the agreement, the bank has accepted to offer inclusive solution for disbursement of salary to all the 56,000 KVS… Read More »
Mr. M V Nair, Chairman and Managing Director, Union Bank of India, said that the RBI is likely to increase key policy rates in the month of May due to continuing high inflation in the country. This increase in key policy rates will add pressure to the banks’ lending rates. He also said that the… Read More »
The word mortgage has to be explained clearly before we start. Any property that is pledged to the financial institution/ bank until the repayment of a loan is done is called a mortgage. Generally houses, land etc are taken as mortgage. The word mortgage loan would mean two different things in Indian scenario and US… Read More »
Housing finance as a financial service is relatively new venture in India with a very quick growth in the sector. In 1970, the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO) was set up to finance housing and urban infrastructure activities followed by the Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC) in 1977, which was the first housing finance… Read More »
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) proposed the base rate system to replace the prime lending rate (PLR) for banks to bring about more transparency in the lending operations of the bank across the country. The base lending rate shows the actual cost to banks that has to be covered through lending. RBI’s definition of base… Read More »
A consumer forum held Bank of India, guilty of improper service after it issued two duplicate passbooks to the estranged wife of a client without the client’s knowledge and charged him for it. The South Mumbai District Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum ordered the bank to pay Mr. Amar Shukla Rs 13,000 for mental agony and… Read More »
A recent press report said that Vijaya Bank has planned to centralise its loan processing activities under the retail and MSME segments, so as to reduce the turnaround time in sanctioning loans. Mr. H.S. Upendra Kamath, Chairman and Managing Director of Vijaya Bank said that the bank is planning to strengthen the credit delivery mechanism… Read More »
A recent press report said that the Reserve bank of India has asked the banks to implement 1% interest subsidy on home loans up to Rs.15 lakh as per the budget announcement. The 1% charge will be implemented on home loan up to Rs. 15 lakh where the cost of the house does not go… Read More »
According to a recent press report Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) has planned to achieve a growth rate of 30 per cent in value terms during the current fiscal its small and medium enterprises (SME) portfolio. The growth in advances to the small and medium enterprises segment in the year 2009-10 was to the tune… Read More »