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Govt to soon reach out to potential buyers of debt-laden IDBI Bank

The Centre, through its advisors, will share the strategic sale plan with investors, and how the deal is expected to be structured, an official said

Earnings preview: Bank profits to show steady rise despite provisions

Rise in stressed assets may not push bills for provisions as lenders maintain higher provision coverage ratio for few quarters

The big bank idea

India needs more efficient financial entities

How good is the bad bank

The key to the success of the bad loan experiment will be IDRCL's management team and the incentive structure. It could recover more than what the industry is estimating now

NARCL: Another brick in the wall; not too different from other ARCs

Having several routes for NPA resolution has both advantages and disadvantages as the decision will finally be taken by the banks

Indian Banks' Association to steer 'EASE reforms' in public sector banks

EASE agenda is aimed at institutionalising clean and smart banking

Public sector banks and corporate governance

Ten out of 11 nationalised banks don't have a chairman. Most bank boards don't have adequate number of non-official directors

Govt approves extension of terms of three MD-CEOs, 10 EDs of PSU banks

Mallikarjuna Rao of PNB, Atul Kumar Goel of UCO Bank and A S Rajeev of Bank of Maharashtra are the three MD-CEOs to have got extensions

Eye on retail, SME credit as public sector banks prepare for festivals

Banks to ramp up efforts during outreach programme

Loan mela mindset

Govt should not push PSBs to lend

FM Sitharaman asks PSBs to conduct credit outreach programme across India

The government will look to amalgamate or disinvest in entities in the financial sector after ensuring that it has minimum presence, she said

NPAs in retail and MSMEs rise to 7.3% for public sector banks in Q1

The incidence of bad loans was lower for private banks with GNPAs at 3.32 per cent in June, up from 2.01 per cent year ago, according to CARE Ratings

Lenders worry as troubled Future group works to keep payment deadlines

Group's financial metrics may deteriorate further in June quarter due to second wave

Govt cuts Mudra loans target in FY22, rules out fresh PSB merger proposal

Mudra scheme target set at Rs 3 trillion for FY22 as against Rs 3.21 trillion sanctioned in FY21

Govt banks continue to have truncated boards, 10 don't even have a chairman

Meeting quorum of board sub-committees becomes difficult sometimes, say bankers

Small business suffer as banks shut current accounts after RBI circular

State-owned lenders welcome 'need for discipline' but their private competitors say business is suffering

PSBs in talks for creating common digital infrastructure platform

Will set up a corporation to enable enhanced access to customers and businesses for credit offerings. This is in line with govt steps to boost digital banking and promote digital lending

PSBs' loan write-offs twice as much as govt's capital infusion in 7 years

RBI data shows, loans written-off by the private sector banks were much lower than their public sector counterparts

Private lenders seen trouncing state peers in India's economic recovery

Many shareholders will be on the lookout for indications that private lenders have enhanced already stronger buffers to give them more wiggle room to step up lending in an eventual recovery

Bank nationalisation: 52 years and ticking

Nationalisation has served its purpose. It's time to move ahead, keeping majority ownership of the government in a few banks to serve people