Banks general

RBI hikes export credit refinance rate to 5 per cent

22 Mar 2010

Mukerjee urges banks to reach out to ignored segments

22 Mar 2010

US bank failures peak - 37 lenders shut down in less than 3 months

20 Mar 2010

New banking licences to come with tougher norms

20 Mar 2010

SBI will not raise lending rates, says Bhatt

20 Mar 2010

State Bank of India  today said it has no plans to hike lending rates immediately, and would wait for further signals from RBI

RBI hikes repo, reverse repo rates by 25 bps

20 Mar 2010

Concerned over rising inflation RBI yesterday hiked its short-term lending and borrowing rates by 25 basis points each to 5.0 per cent and 3.5 per cent

Bank recapitalisation to start in April-May

19 Mar 2010

Government will pump Rs9,000 crore fresh capital into state-run banks in the next two months as part of the Rs16,500 crore capital infusion proposed by the finance minister in the 2010-11 budget.

LIC board free to decide on banking licence: official

18 Mar 2010

CIT reports $1 million pre-tax loss in Q4-'09

18 Mar 2010

UBI looking to sell bad loans to spruce loan book

18 Mar 2010

Citigroup raises stake in Chilean bank to 50 per cent

17 Mar 2010

Last week, Citigroup's CEO Vikram Pandit Pandit told an investor conference in New York that Citigroup was back on the path to success after losing billions of dollars during the past two years

RBI cancels licences of two urban co-op banks

12 Mar 2010

China allows SBI to lend to Indian firms in yuan

12 Mar 2010

China, which normally shies away from permitting foreign banks to do business in the local currency, has permitted State Bank of India to lend Indian companies in China upto $200 million in the yuan

HSBC Private Bank says 24,000 Swiss accounts data stolen

12 Mar 2010

BoI hikes domestic term deposit rates; ends floating rates

11 Mar 2010

Lone Star Funds to sell Korean bank stake worth $3.9 billion

11 Mar 2010

RBI, SEBI tightens screws on Bank of Rajasthan

09 Mar 2010

Santander leads race for RBS’ Williams & Glyn’s brand

09 Mar 2010

RBI orders special audit of Bank of Rajasthan accounts

08 Mar 2010

Government proposes to trim SBI stake to 51 per cent

08 Mar 2010

Exim Bank opens $15 million line of credit to Benin

06 Mar 2010

RBI defers implementation of base rate to 1 July

06 Mar 2010

RBI gives banks time till 1 July to implement base rate system

05 Mar 2010

Banks end cut-rate car, home loans spree

05 Mar 2010

Three private banks, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra, have raised rates on home and auto loans, reflecting the stiffening money market as well as RBI’s recent move to raise the capital reserve ratio by 75 basis points

Banks end cut-rate car, home loans spree

05 Mar 2010

Three private banks, HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Kotak Mahindra, have raised rates on home and auto loans, reflecting the stiffening money market as well as RBI’s recent move to raise the capital reserve ratio by 75 basis points