Banks general
ICICI, HDFC push up borrowing rates again
24 Feb 2011
The country's largest and second-largest private lenders have raised their benchmark lending rates, making loans more expensive for corporate and retail borrowers
ICICI, HDFC push up borrowing rates again
24 Feb 2011
The country's largest and second-largest private lenders have raised their benchmark lending rates, making loans more expensive for corporate and retail borrowers
South Korea bans Deutsche Bank from proprietary trading
24 Feb 2011
In one of the harshest penalties for unfair trading, Deutsche Bank has been banned from proprietary stock and derivatives trading for six months for illegal profits made through stock market manipulation
RBI defers move to cap private bank salaries
24 Feb 2011
State Bank to merge remaining 5 associate banks in 18 months
23 Feb 2011
SBI chairman O P Bhatt says the merger of subsidiaries is a systematic process and all assocaite banks will offer products, services and processes of similar nature and will be migrated to the same core banking technology
Mobile phone transactions need a big push
18 Feb 2011
Mobile Money can become the preferred payment method – but for this, banks and telcos will have to be more proactive, says Probir Roy, co-founder and promoter, PayMate
Banks must retool payments businesses: BCG
08 Feb 2011
Banco Santander bids $5.8 billion for Poland's BZ WBK
08 Feb 2011
The tender offer is part of the agreement between Banco Santander and Allied Irish Banks for the acquisition of AIB's stake in BZ WBK
Budget may permit new private sector banks
03 Feb 2011
Credit cards account for 24 per cent of complaints received by banking ombudsman in 2009-10
02 Feb 2011
Public sector banks raise lending, deposit rates
01 Feb 2011
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