Following the RBI MPC's repo rate hike earlier this month, many banks like Bank of Baroda, Bank of India, and Punjab National Bank have also hiked their key lending rates
Also wants LIC and SBI probed for participating in Adani Enterprises FPO; says investors lost Rs 10 trillion following 50% decline in prices of group firm stocks
This is expected to free up some cash for Vodafone Idea which needs to pay urgently to Indus Towers, Nokia and Ericsson
Three Adani Group companies have pledged additional shares for State Bank of India, days after a scathing report by a US short-seller led to over USD 100 billion loss in its market value, as per stock exchange filings. Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ), Adani Transmission Ltd and Adani Green Energy pledged shares to SBICAP Trustee Company, a unit of India's biggest lender, SBI. As many as 75 lakh more shares of APSEZ have been pledged, taking the total to 1 per cent of all shares with SBICAP. In the case of Adani Green, pledge of 60 lakh more shares took the total to 1.06 per cent. Pledge of 13 lakh more shares of Adani Transmission took the total to 0.55 per cent, the filings showed. The additional pledges are part of a USD 300 million letter of credit - issued by a bank to another bank as a guarantee for payments made - provided by SBI for Adani Group's Carmichael coal mining project in Australia.
SBICAP Trustee said it had received the pledges in its capacity as "security trustee" of the lenders of Adani Enterprises
The foreign office advances were up by 21.47 per cent year on year (YoY) basis to Rs 4.86 trillion in December 2022 from Rs 4.0 trillion in December 2021
State Bank of India (SBI) on Thursday inaugurated its third specialised branch for startups at Gurugram to provide all banking services required by them under one roof. Gurugram houses the third highest number of unicorns in the nation after Bengaluru and Mumbai, SBI said in a statement. Speaking on the occasion, SBI Chairman Dinesh Khara said the primary aim of this branch is to provide end-to-end support to startups at every stage of their journey, starting from the formation of the entity till their IPOs and FPOs. Apart from regular banking services to startups, the branch will also act as a one stop shop in providing investment banking, treasury/forex, advisory and other ancillary financial services through the bank's subsidiaries, it said. Besides startups, the bank also intends to cater to the requirements of private equity (PE), venture capital (VC) and Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs). Leveraging its locational advantage, the startup branch in Gurugram has entered into
The bonds, which are likely to receive a rating of AA+, may go up for bidding on February 20 with issuance scheduled for the next day
CreditSights pointed out that the country's largest lender has a provision reserves buffer of around 338 billion rupees ($4.08 billion), or around 1% of net loans
These loans will be in continuation of the debt facility Tata Group received following the acquisition of Air India
Economists at SBI on Monday said they expect the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to hit the pause button on interest rate hike at its upcoming monetary policy review this week. The central bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), the six-member rate setting panel, is likely to continue with the current 'withdrawal of accommodation' stance, the SBI economists said. RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das-headed MPC started its three-day meeting on Monday and it will announce the decision on Wednesday. "Even though RBI could pause as it allows past rate actions to work with long and variable lags, the RBI could still guide the markets with a rate action in future that will be purely data dependent," the note said. Expecting headline inflation to decline closer to 5 per cent by March 2023 and further to 4.2 per cent in April, the economists said they expect a pause from the RBI at the next policy announcement and the present repo rate of 6.25 per cent will be the terminal rate. With the headline ...
Stocks to Watch: Paytm has narrowed its consolidated net loss to Rs 392 crore in Q3FY22. The company had posted a net loss of Rs 778.4 crore a year ago
A healthy rise in NII and a sharp drop in credit costs boost bottom-line
State Bank of India, the country's largest lender, said on Friday any further financing to projects of the embattled Adani Group would be "evaluated on its own merit"
SBI Q3 result: The profit number beat Street estimate. Consensus estimates by Bloomberg had projected net profit at Rs 13,196 crore
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
Stocks to watch today: The National Stock Exchange (NSE) on Thursday shifted Adani Enterprises, Adani Ports, and Ambuja Cements to a category of stocks that require up to 100 per cent trading margins
SBI's exposure includes $200 million from its overseas units, the person said, asking not to be identified discussing private information
SBI Q3 preview: Brokerages believe the lender may report loan growth of 17-19 per cent year-on-year (YoY), in-line with industry growth
SBI has also issued green bonds worth $800 million since 2018-19 and a green loan worth €50 million in 2020-21