IDBI Bank Ltd, quarantined in the correctional facility of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) which restricts its ability to lend, is about to start corporate lending in a limited way to its existing customers with high credit ratings. Till now, its ability to lend is capped at Rs5 crore per customer.
In the June quarter, it announced successive 11th quarter loss – Rs3,801 crore.
Last week our cook Lilu-tai asked me whether her money is safe in her bank. She is 75, can barely sign her name. She is scared that all her savings might get wiped out overnight.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) modelled its official emblem on the double mohur of the East India Company. The lion under a palm tree on the logo later gave way to a tiger to represent India better.
Last week, after the Indian central bank announced transferring Rs 1.
In late July, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) penalised 11 banks for not complying with the norms to classify an account as fraud and report to the regulator. Despite being advised by the RBI to report fraud in an account ‘immediately’ after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) initiated criminal proceedings, the banks had either delayed or did not report the fraud to the central bank. The RBI did not mention it but the “account” in question is that of the now-defunct Kingfisher Airlines Ltd.
Those who are eyeing the position of a deputy governor at the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) have not much time left to make up their minds as the deadline for submission of applications expires on 30 August. Early this month, the government invited applications for the post, which fell vacant after Viral Acharya decided to step down, roughly six months before the scheduled end of his term. Ahead of him, Urjit Patel resigned little less than a year before his three-year term as governor would have come to an end.
When it comes to monetary policy, a career bureaucrat could be more innovative than an economist. Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor Shaktikanta Das has proved that.
After taking three baby steps since February, when the rate cutting cycle started, he changed track last week: No more baby steps (25 basis points or bps rate cut); not a giant step (50 bps) either.
Till Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Shaktikanta Das said in his recent interviews that shifting of the stance of the monetary policy from neutral to accommodative itself means a rate cut of 25 basis points (bps) at least and, therefore, effectively, the rate cuts have been 100 bps, every analyst and his aunt were penciling yet another rate cut on August 7.
Even now, against the backdrop of the US Federal Reserve's rather hawkish rate cut, a 25 bps drop in policy rate could be on the table in India as core inflation is modest, overall retail inflation remains below 4 per cent and there are telltale signs of growth slowing down. Had Das not made this comment, the expectation was building up for a 50 bps rate cut.
The findings of the interim report of a forensic audit by Grant Thornton, an audit, tax and advisory firm, engaged by the board of the disgraced Infrastructure Leasing and Financial Services Ltd (IL&FS) -- detailing the gifts and favours that the senior professionals of credit rating agencies (CRAs) have allegedly enjoyed to keep a rotting company on a high pedestal -- exposed the soft underbelly of India’s rating industry.
Till the findings of the report trickled down in the media, the CRAs were criticised for basking in the cool comfort of their offices, oblivious of the ground realities; they miserably failed in their due diligence and acted only when the writing on the wall was visible to the entire world. The alleged corrupt practices indulged in by the rating officials add a dirty dimension to this.
