The Hindu Business Line : Monday, January 17, 2005

What kind of a central banker do we need?
Examining the issues involved in a central banker's attitude towards risk and experimentation and whether there is a case for more experimentation in a developing, than in a developed, country, V. Anantha Nageswaran concludes that there can be no final answers to these issues. Indeed, the conclusion is that the answer is context-specific. More

CREDIT RATING

ICRA assists Bulgarian rating agency
ICRA Ltd has recently assisted the Bulgarian Credit Rating Agency (BCRA) in executing two rating assignments. A team of ICRA analysts was deputed to Sofia in Bulgaria to assist BCRA with these assignments. These assignments involved ... More

DEBT MARKET

Hawkish Fed minutes, euro selloff — Bond markets are extremely cautious
In fact, the poor liquidity of 9.39 security, post the auction, gave the impression that traders were hardly holding that stock and almost all of it had moved into the hands of the investors. More

Life insurers' buying supports bonds
BONDS were steady last week and were largely unaffected by the mayhem in the equity and foreign exchange markets. Traders said life insurance companies extended support to bonds, beingbuyers of government securities during the whole of last ... More

HUMAN RESOURCES

PSU bankers urged to move out of `comfort zone'
THE Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank of India, Ms K.J. Udeshi, has said that all bankers in the public sector should have a lot more `lateral mobility'. Addressing the staff of Corporation Bank at the `Corporate Award Ceremony 2004' here on ... More

PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS

Canara Bank plans to raise Rs 400-crore Tier II capital
CANARA Bank plans to raise Rs 300 crore to Rs 400 crore through the tier II capital route to fund some of its business plans and increase its capital adequacy ratio to 13.93 per cent from the current 12.66 per cent.The bank hopes to finalise ... More

Two IOB branches in Thiruvananthapuram to work on Sundays

EVENTS

AP wants ICC complex to be completed by year-end
WITH Hyderabad being chosen as the venue of the Asian Development Bank, the Finance Ministers' annual conference to be held in May 2006, the State Government is making every effort to ensure that the Rs 900-crore Integrated Convention Centre ... More

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