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Sunday, August 10, 2025
TopicIndian Banks

Topic: Indian Banks

This Indian banker is the world’s best, says The Economist

Launched in 1994, India's HDFC Bank is now the world’s 10th most valuable bank and has surpassed Citibank and HSBC in worth standing at about $90 billion.

India’s economic recovery will be hit if banks aren’t recapitalised, former RBI chiefs warn

Bad loans of Indian banks pose a risk to growth if they aren’t recapitalised, D. Subbarao, Y. Venugopal Reddy and C. Rangarajan say in a new book.

Why public sector banks are struggling to raise capital but private banks are having it easy

ICRA estimates that PSBs need around Rs 60,000 crore in the current fiscal, but these banks are struggling to raise capital despite asset quality challenges.

Allow us to restructure loans but no need for blanket recast, banks tell RBI

The Indian Banks’ Association has written to RBI, saying debt recast needs to be completed by September to prevent fresh bad loan creation.

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.

Protect bankers, act against miscreants with full force of law: Finance ministry tells states

In a letter to all state chief secretaries, the finance ministry sought proactive and preventive measures amid rising incidents of violence against bankers on bank premises.

25-30% of bank loans under moratorium but only small portion of these expected to turn NPAs

Banks are relying on a pick-up in economic activity amid unlock phase and borrower profiles to expect that majority of loans under moratorium won’t turn bad.

Pay loan EMI if you can. Interest payable will increase if you don’t, banks tell borrowers

The Indian Banks' Association has put out answers to customer queries to address confusion over RBI's 3-month loan moratorium.

Indian banks face risk from $13 Billion telecom dues, UBS says

Payment of the dues after the Supreme Court verdict may erode the telecom operators’ cash flows, especially those of Vodafone India.

Indians will soon have greater control over their financial data as banks ready new process

The 'account aggregator' system, offered by banks and licensed by RBI, gives consumers access to a wide swath of their financial data and allows them to share it instantly.

On Camera

Bank nationalisation will be a blow to India’s mixed economy, lead to totalitarianism: Phiroze Shroff

If banks were to be nationalised, politicians would start interfering with bank officials and put undue pressure on them, Prof Shroff wrote in 1963.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Secret to Pakistan aircraft losses in Op Sindoor could lie in Martin-Baker’s ejection seats records

New Delhi: On 7 May this year, as India and Pakistan entered into what was to be an 88-hour conflict, British firm Martin-Baker, which...

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.