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Private sector Karur Vysya Bank has inked a pact with SBI Life Insurance to offer their insurance products to customers at its branches, the bank said on Tuesday. The Tamil Nadu-based bank offers a range of financial services through similar tie-ups with leading service providers. "In an attempt to offer a wider choice to customers in the life insurance sphere, KVB has inked an agreement with SBI Life." the Managing Director and CEO of the bank B Ramesh Babu said. "I am sure that together both of us will be able to provide not just choice but quality options to the customers in the days to come," he said. On the tie-up with Karur Vysya Bank, SBI Life Insurance MD and CEO Mahesh Kumar Sharma, "we look forward to strengthening the financial immunity of Karur Vysya Bank's customers with our life insurance solutions and tech-enabled services." "We are confident that the partnership will further enable us to expand the insurance market across the bank's presence in the country," he add
The RBI on Friday said it has imposed a penalty of Rs 30 lakh on Karur Vysya Bank for non-compliance with certain provisions related to fraud classification and reporting by commercial banks. In a statement, the Reserve Bank said a Select Scope Inspection (SSI) of the bank was conducted by it from February 21, 2022, to March 4, 2022. An examination of the SSI report and all related correspondence pertaining to the same revealed that the bank failed to report a few accounts as frauds to the RBI within a week of the respective Joint Lenders' Forum (JLF) decisions to do so, the central bank said. In furtherance to the same, a notice was issued to Karur Vysya Bank, advising it to show cause as to why a penalty should not be imposed on it for failure to comply with the directions issued by the RBI. After considering the bank's reply, oral submissions and additional submissions made by the bank, the RBI came to the conclusion that the charge of non-compliance with the directions was ...
Karur Vysya Bank on Monday reported a 56 per cent jump in profit at Rs 289 crore for the quarter ended December 2022, helped by a rise in interest income and decline in bad loans. Its net profit stood at Rs 185 crore in the same quarter of the preceding financial year. Total income increased to Rs 2,013 crore in the quarter from Rs 1,600 crore in the year-ago period, the old generation private sector bank said in a regulatory filing. At the same time, interest income rose to Rs 1,695 crore as against Rs 1,405 crore in the same quarter a year ago. On the asset quality front, the bank recorded an improvement with gross NPAs (Non-Performing Assets) declining to 2.66 per cent as compared to 6.97 per cent at the end of the third quarter of 2021-22. Net NPAs too eased to 0.89 per cent from 2.55 per cent. Despite a decline in bad loans, provision and contingencies increased more than two-fold to Rs 364 crore as against Rs 146 crore in the same period a year ago. The capital adequacy ra
Karur Vysya Bank (KVB) on Thursday said it has re-appointed non-executive independent director KG Mohan for three years on its board. The first term of Mohan was completed on October 11, 2022. He was re-appointed by the board in its meeting on September 22, 2022, for the second term of three years with effect from October 12, 2022, as an additional director under the independent category, the bank said in a regulatory filing. Mohan's re-appointment is subject to the bank's shareholders' approval. Shares of KVB were trading at Rs 82.50 apiece on BSE, down by 0.18 per cent from the previous close.