Mumbai: Foreign investors will welcome the depth and liquidity of the local market as India begins to feature on global bond indices, but once overseas ownership crosses a point, local dealers will have to contend with a new landscape of volatility that worldwide interconnectedness brings, a Bank of America trading veteran said. Vikas Jain, head … Read more
Dinesh Kumar Khara, Chairman, SBI, says “our endeavour is to ensure that we maintain this level and we expect that when it comes to our deposit rates, we appear to have plateaued already. And henceforth we should be in a position to improve our yield on advances also and that is the reason why I … Read more
New Delhi: The central government’s fiscal deficit, in absolute terms, could be slightly better than the revised estimates for FY24, on the back of better than expected revenue receipts, an official said. In the interim Budget in February, the government pegged its FY24 fiscal deficit at ₹17.35 lakh crore, against the budget estimate of ₹17.89 … Read more
George Alexander Muthoot, MD, Muthoot Finance, says “the RBI instruction is an universal one, applicable to all NBFCs. The Reserve Bank is clarifying that more than Rs 20,000 should not be paid in cash. I do not think there is any impact of that because even otherwise most of our customers have bank accounts and … Read more
Mumbai: Tinkering with the interest rate alone may not help with the repayment ability of home loan borrowers, according to a research paper supported by the Reserve Bank of India. Prudential measures like risk weights and loan-to-value adjustments, along with interest rates, will be more effective in repayments of loans. This will also help in … Read more
Mumbai: Shares of state-owned banks, non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and infrastructure firms plunged as much as 10% on Monday following the Reserve Bank of India’s tougher draft guidelines on the financing and accounting of project loans. The proposed stricter lending criteria, with additional provisioning, are aimed at preventing accounting shocks but could potentially hurt balance … Read more
Governor Shaktikanta Das on Monday said that permanent deletion of transactions can make the e-rupee or central bank digital currency (CBDC) become anonymous and make it at par with paper currency. Speaking at the BIS Innovation Summit, Das said India is also working on making the CBDC transferable in the offline mode along with introducing … Read more
Mumbai: At meetings with officials of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), money market participants have flagged the issue of dwindling volumes in the interbank call money market and the impact on financial instruments that derive their pricing from that platform. Sources aware of the developments told ET that market players have brought up the … Read more
Almost two years after the Reserve Bank of India announced new steps for rupee-settled global trades, Russian banking major Sberbank said it has seen an uptick in volumes for rupee-rouble payments for Moscow’s imports, with the lender focusing on drawing more foreign clients to the domestic market. “Sberbank offers its corporate clients a convenient way … Read more
“There are a good number of senior management people we have already boarded to the bank and they are also setting up the bank and so it is the right time, given we have a very professional team,” says Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, MD & CEO, Bandhan Bank.What are your future plans?I need to retire and … Read more
