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Thursday, May 22, 2025
TopicPrivate banks

Topic: private banks

Indian banks have solid asset quality & profitability for now, but risks are emerging on both counts

Narrowing of the wedge between credit and deposit growth, and the possible easing of the monetary policy, could weigh on the net interest margin of banks in 2025.

HDFC to double retail loans as consumer demand picks, Covid uncertainty declines

HDFC's retail loans grew around 9.3 per cent slower than its overall book's 14.4% in the June quarter, much lower than SBI (16.5%) & ICICI (20%) growth in that portfolio.

Nirmala Sitharaman to meet CEOs of public sector banks on 25 August to review performance

Meeting is expected to take stock of banking sector, bad loans (NPAs), progress on restructuring RBI's 2.0 scheme. Banks may be nudged to push loan growth in productive sectors.

Private banks lending more than PSU banks as Indian economy recovers from Covid

Most recent data shows India’s top 3 private banks lent nearly 3 times the average industry rate in the quarter of March, while maintaining better asset quality than their state peers.

Only 1.6% loans to street vendors under PM SVANidhi so far have come from private banks

Of total loans disbursed to over 20 lakh street vendors until 29 March, PSBs gave loans to over 18 lakh applicants while private banks distributed loans to just 32,534.

India, Pakistan LoC peace commitment a relief but how long will it last?

ThePrint view on the most important issues, instantly.

Finance Ministry lifts embargo, permits all private banks to participate in govt business

This step is expected to further enhance customer convenience, spur competition and higher efficiency in the standards of customer services, an official statement said.

Let’s stop pretending. Indian banking sector needs to be mostly private to be healthy

It’s virtually written in the stars that private banks will continue to grab a bigger share than public banks. Two or three large, better-run govt banks should suffice.

Every 4 out of 5 small businesses opted for RBI’s moratorium, but asset quality in question

The latest data indicates the stress the MSME sector faced after the lockdown. The central bank has also warned of a sharp rise in bad loans.

In just 5 years, private banks have narrowed public sector’s huge lead in loans & deposits

Private banks’ market share in loans has risen to 36.04% in 2020 from 21.26% in 2015, while public sector banks’ share has gone to 59.8% from 74.28%.

On Camera

Digvesh Rathi’s suspension should be a wake-up call. T20 cricket is also a gentleman’s game

The suspension should serve as a wake-up call — not just for Rathi, but for every young gun in the league. Celebrate your success, but know where the boundary is.

No competition, have to deliver faster & reliably, says Amazon India V-P of operations

Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

All about Golden Dome, Trump’s $175 billion plan to shield America

Trump is not the first American president to propose such a defence system. Ronald Reagan proposed a space-centric Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, but it never took off.

Pakistan has a 7-year terror itch. Here’s a two-minus-one-front idea to cure it

Pakistani establishments and their proxies are prone to severe, predictable 7-year-itch. Each step up the escalation ladder buys India about this many years of deterrence on average.