In the fortnight ended June 21, 2019, bank credit had stood at Rs 96.48 trillion and deposits at Rs 124.92 trillion
Banks have also lowered their lending rates following the cut in the benchmark rates by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI).
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While deposit accretion has been strong, there has been shift in the profile of banks accruing them
Cash in circulation has risen strongly by around Rs 3.5 trillion during the first five months of 2020, the highest in the past two decades
In the fortnight ended May 24, 2019, bank loans had stood at Rs 96.21 trillion and deposits at Rs 124.99 trillion, the RBI data showed
Loans sanctioned by public sector banks (PSBs) at the end of May 8 stood at Rs 5.95 trillion
In the year-ago fortnight, bank loans had stood at Rs 96.20 trillion and deposits at Rs 124.83 trillion
Last financial year saw a series of banks failures starting with Punjab & Maharashtra Co-operative Bank and culminated in near collapse of YES Bank, India's 5th-largest private sector bank at its peak
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This is because the government went for one of the steepest cuts of up to 1.4 percentage points in these interest rates to facilitate banks to lower their rates.
Growth in advances to the services sector decelerated to 8.9% from 23.9% in January 2019
The Reserve Bank does not see any major impact on the balance-sheets of banks due to the five-fold hike in deposit insurance to Rs 5 lakh. Following the failure of a number of cooperative banks, with the city-based PMC Bank being the latest and the largest last year, the budget allowed the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC) to raise deposit insurance coverage to Rs 5 lakh from Rs 1 lakh. "The premium is something, which we consider, will increase from 10 paise to 12 paisa per Rs 100 for the time being. So, the impact on banks' balance sheets is not likely to be much," RBI Deputy Governor B P Kanungo told reporters during the post-policy presser. The hike in deposit insurance coverage has been a long pending demand from bank depositors and it recently came to fore after the crisis at Punjab & Maharashtra Cooperative (PMC) Bank. It can be noted that in 2019 alone more than 30 cooperative banks went belly up in Maharashtra alone. The DICGC, a wholly-owned ...
The cover is provided by the Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the RBI
Non-food bank credit growth decelerated to 7 per cent in December 2019 from 12.8 per cent in December 2018
Finance minister had announced hiking the deposit insurance limit to Rs 5 lakh for each bank depositor
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Saturday said the government has permitted DICGC to raise deposit insurance coverage by five times to Rs 5 lakh. Deposit Insurance and Credit Guarantee Corporation (DICGC), a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reserve Bank of India, provides insurance cover on bank deposits. Deposit insurance coverage will be enhanced from Rs 1 lakh to 5 lakh per depositor, the Finance Minister said her Budget speech in Lok Sabha. At present, the DICGC provides Rs 1 lakh insurance to a depositor regardless of deposit in case the lender fails or liquidated.
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