Leading public sector lenders Punjab National Bank (PNB) and Bank of Baroda (BoB) have raised their lending rates by up to 25 basis points following the interest rate hike by Reserve Bank earlier this week. PNB in a regulatory filing said it has effected a 25 basis point increase in the Repo Linked Lending Rate (RLLR) from 8.75 per cent to 9 per cent effective from Thursday. The Reserve Bank on Wednesday hiked the benchmark policy rate by 25 basis points to 6.5 per cent, citing sticky core inflation. It was the sixth time the interest rate has been hiked by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) since May last year, taking the total quantum of increase to 250 basis points. BoB increased its Marginal Cost of Funds Based Lending Rate (MCLR) by 5 basis points across all tenures. The new rates are effective from February 12, BoB said in a regulatory filing. After the latest revision, its MCLR has risen from 7.85 per cent to 7.90 per cent for the overnight tenure. The MCLR for one month has
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'We have made investments in terms of making sure our savings banks franchise is strengthened'
Investors have been worried about various banks' exposure to the Adani Group ever since U.S.-based short-seller Hindenburg Research alleged improper use of offshore tax havens and stock manipulation
Bank management says, exposure to Adani Group well below the ceiling prescribed by RBI under large exposure framework
Closing Bell: On the Nifty, Adani Ports closed in green after two days with a firm gain of 6 per cent., while Adani Enterprises erased over 50 per cent of its day's losses to close 2 per cent down
On the bourses, shares of the bank jumped over 5 per cent to an intra-day high of Rs 162.3 per share
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Public sector Bank of Baroda chief executive Sanjiv Chadha said the budget push on public capex will nudge private companies which have been holding back investments for many years, to open their purse-strings now, leading to the much-awaited revival of an investment cycle. The budget proposes to increase public spending on infrastructure by a full 33 per cent to Rs 10 lakh crore next fiscal even as it guided towards fiscal prudence with fiscal gaps being pegged at 6.4 per cent for FY23 and 5.9 per cent for FY24 and at 4.5 per cent by FY27. The budget also has penciled in a lower revenue growth forecast given the most-likely fall in nominal GDP from 15.5 per cent this fiscal to about 10 per cent next year. Discounting the poor market reaction to the budget as a short term, Chadha told PTI that the budget clearly underlines some consistent themes as it has been doing in the past many years. Even in the very uncertain times like now, there are four-five consistent budget themes in th
Bank of Baroda Q3 preview: Analysts said traction in deposits, margin trajectory, and update on appointment of new MD & CEO would be on investors' radar
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MDs and EDs of nationalised banks can have a term of up to 10 years but there is no relaxation in their retirement age. Private bank bosses can be in the saddle till they are 70
The government has extended the tenure of managing director (MD) and CEO of Bank of Baroda (BoB) Sanjiv Chadha for about five months till June 30. The order dated January 14, 2023 comes ahead of his three-year tenure that ends on January 19. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) has approved the proposal of the Department of Financial Services for extending the term of Chadha till June 30, 2023, when he attains 60 years, the retirement age, sources said. Meanwhile, the Financial Services Institutions Bureau (FSIB), the headhunter for directors of state-owned banks and financial institutions, on Saturday recommended elevation of Executive Director (ED) Debadatta Chand as managing director of Bank of Baroda. Besides, the Bureau recommended Union Bank of India ED Rajneesh Karnatak for the position of MD & CEO in Bank of India. The final decision on the FSIB recommendation would be taken by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Th
Further, the Bank is offering interest rates up to 7.50% p.a, which includes 0.50% p.a. for senior citizens and 0.25% for non-callable deposits, for a period of 1 year and upto 3 years
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Marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR) is the minimum interest rate below which a bank cannot lend, except in certain cases
Banks have made a beeline to increase rates on their deposits as liquidity in the system has tightened and the credit growth in the system has remained consistently high
There were similar reports in August 2022 and UTI AMC had then denied having any knowledge about it