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Friday, April 26, 2024
TopicIndian banking

Topic: Indian banking

Healthy loan growth, comfortable capital position — what’s behind banking sector’s ongoing dream run

There are, however, also some incipient signs of stress in the form of shrinking net interest margins & build-up of bad loans in retail segment that need to be monitored.

Why India need not worry about Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse, but must learn from it

On March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), a start-up focussed lender, became the largest bank to fail in the US since the 2008 global...

Axis Bank completes deal to buy Citi’s India consumer, non-banking finance businesses

The Rs 123.25-billion deal, when announced last year, was Axis Bank's biggest-ever acquisition. Citi was among the first international lenders to introduce credit cards in India in 1987.

RBI unlikely to extend 30 September deadline for credit card security, say bankers, merchants

According to RBI's data, card & internet transactions made up 34.6% of the total fraud cases in FY21.

Indian banks can’t ignore persons with disabilities. RBI guidelines exist for a reason

Accessibility in banking facilities is crucial for financial inclusion of persons with disabilities and for achieving the dream of turning India into a digital economy.

Good to see telecom crisis resolved. Govt should promote competition to boost private sector

Greater private participation in a sector isn’t enough. It needs to be accompanied with a conducive environment for promoting competition.

Indian banking system will be among last to recover due to NPA overhang, S&P says

The rating agency says India, Mexico, and South Africa are among the banking systems that will be slower to recover to 2019 levels — likely beyond 2023.

The risky game Indian banks are playing as Covid loans moratorium nears its end

Financial firms have an incentive to pretend their borrowers have become miraculously stress-free. Investors know this and are trying to ferret out bad news.

How government intervention is wrecking India’s banking system

A summary of Episode 407 of #CutTheClutter where Shekhar Gupta explains why the government should move out of India’s banking system.

How a reform on Modi govt agenda can protect your deposits & keep banks from failing

Bringing back the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance Bill could be a very important reform in laying the foundations of a stronger financial system. 

On Camera

Every time the Congress thinks it has a ‘revolutionary’ idea, it shoots its own foot

From Sam Pitroda talking about inheritance tax to Goan candidate saying the Indian Constitution was 'forced' on Goa, Congress has been having its own foot-in-the-mouth moments.

JP Morgan CEO praises ‘tough leader’ Modi — ‘has taken 400 million people out of poverty’

Jamie Dimon also lauded India's Aadhaar recognition system, broad availability of banking services & country's 'unbelievable' education system & infrastructure.

Rafale to Exercise Garuda, a look at Indo-French defence ties as Chief of Defence Staff visits France

Another addition to military cooperation has been the Strategic Space Dialogue, inaugurated in Paris in 2023. Last month, India participated as an observer to France’s AsterX.

These 6 states are key for Modi’s ‘400 paar’ target. They’re also where Opposition can stop him

While this contest looks so predictable in large swathes of our political landscape, it is also more keenly contested than 2019 in some states.