'The divide between rural and urban is slowly reducing and it's largely owing to the way telecom has improved across the country'
HDFC Bank MD Aditya Puri and SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar discuss the present and the future of the industry in a fireside chat
Chandra Shekhar Ghosh has turned a small microfinance NGO into a formidable private bank
Till November 22, the central bank bought Rs 4,300 crore of bonds
The corporation covers all commercial banks, including branches of foreign banks functioning in India, local area banks and regional rural banks
Fitch said the rating outlook for most Indian banks mirrors the stable outlook on India's sovereign rating
For over ten years, the RBI has denied RTI applicants this information arguing that it would be against the economic interests of the country
From Kulbhushan Jadhav's reprieve to bank nationalisation, here are the best of Business Standard Opinions for the day
In part 1 of a series, the author traces the compulsions behind bank nationalisation and the effects of liberalisation on the banking sector
More than 60 per cent of customers say they already use these products from BigTechs or "challenger banks" or are likely to do so in the next three years
It's one of the worst kept secrets in banking, and not many chief executive officers (CEOs) of banks want to go public on it
Axis Bank reported good numbers in the second quarter of FY20 even though the bank had a net loss of Rs 112 crore in the period
In the concluding part of the series, the author draws attention to the central bank's problems that need urgent fixing
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as the central bank should tighten banking regulations for the staff and any deviation should be reported to the regulatory committee at the earlies
Financials have seen sharp erosion in their share prices in wake of the yearlong crisis in India's credit markets
A capital-constrained economy like India can't afford a jungle raj in finance
The RBI statement came on a day when the Nifty Bank index tanked by 1.30 per cent in intra-day trade amid a barrage of negative news from the sector
Amazon Flipkart claimed record sales during the recently concluded six-day online shopping bonanza
The latest trouble in the banking system may further hurt lending in an industry still grappling with the fallout from the collapse of a major shadow lender last year
That has erased almost half of the surge sparked by the Sept 20 announcement of a landmark corporate tax cut