Stock up 3%; asset quality of Rs 32,500-cr loans on watch list
Public sector Corporation Bank also reduced MCLR rate by 0.05% across the board
Several of the bank's processes are undergoing a technological transformation, said.
The sale of Essar Oil to Rosneft is a key trigger behind the lender's 12% rally this week so far
ICICI Bank Ltd, India's largest private-sector bank, rose the most in seven months in Mumbai trading on optimism the lender will recover some of its loans to Essar Group.Shares of the bank rose seven per cent to Rs 258.7, while the locally listed stock of Standard Chartered Plc, also owed money by Essar, gained 1.6 per cent. ICICI was the best performer on the benchmark S&P BSE Sensex index, which fell 0.5 per cent.Prospects for loan recoveries rose after Essar Group agreed to sell its refinery unit to Rosneft PJSC, Russia's biggest listed oil producer, and a group of Trafigura and United Capital Partners for about $13 billion. The all-cash deal will help Essar, which also runs steel mills and ports, cut its debt by more than 50 per cent, Prashant Ruia, a director at the group said in an interview on Sunday.The transaction will help Essar repay $5 billion to the lenders to its holding company, Ruia said. ICICI, Standard Chartered, and Axis Bank Ltd are the banks with the largest ex
The stock surged nearly 6% to Rs 256 on the BSE in intra-day trade on back of heavy volumes.
Anup Bagchi replaces Sabharwal; Shilpa Kumar will be new head of ICICI Securities; B Prasanna, Shailendra Jhingan given new roles
Blockchain allows one to change the age old process of maintaining a ledger that can be accessed only by one party
The usage of blockchain technology simplifies the process and makes it almost instant-to only a few minutes
The bank, on August 24, 2006, had issued 7.25 per cent perpetual non-cumulative subordinated debt securities
Its one-year MCLR now stands at 9.05%
It verifies a caller's identity through natural conversation by analysing over 100 characteristics including spped, accent, pronunciation
Listing boost from subsidiary could result in 10-20% re-rating of the bank's stock
The bank will also be diluting over 12% of its stake in ICICI Prudential Life Insurance through IPO
Other private banks also planning to employ bots soon
Plans to more than double the software robots to over 500 by end of this fiscal
While listing of the life insurance business is the immediate trigger, benign valuations and improving fundamentals provide further support
The bank claimed that it is the first lender in Asia to offer such a product under the label of 'iMobile SmartKeys'
The lender is also planning to issue 400,000 tags to motorists to allow them hassle-free passage through toll plazas on national highways
The bank's asset quality will remain under pressure over the next 12 months