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INVESTMENT BANKING


UTI Bank `top arranger' in H1
FOR arrangers, the debt placement sweepstakes are changing rapidly. UTI Bank, followed by I-Sec and AK Capital, now leads the rankings chart, which has lately seen pronounced ups and downs. The league tables released by Prime Database have put ... More

FINANCIAL SERVICES


Financial services offshoring moves up the value chain
FINANCIAL services offshoring to India is moving up the value chain, with global financial firms increasingly transferring specialised functions such as share transfer registry work, superannuation fund accounting and trust administration ... More

FOREX


Rupee tad lower; bond prices down
MUMBAI: The rupee fell marginally against the US dollar on Wednesday to close at 45.77/78, about three paise lower than Monday's level of 45.73. The rupee had opened at 45.78/80 and traded in the range of 45.74-45.84, said dealers. ... More

FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE


South Indian Bank H1 net at Rs 14 cr
SOUTH Indian Bank has posted a net profit of Rs 13.94 crore (loss of Rs 13.12 crore) for the first half of the current year. Net profit for the second quarter touched Rs 8.63 crore. Emphasising that the bank had posted impressive growth on all ... More

HOUSING FINANCE


Banks pare home loan exposure
TAKING a cue from the RBI's repeated cautions, public and private sector banks have started containing exposures to housing loan assets. This has been resorted to for restricting the build-up of non-performing assets in their balance sheets. ... More

LIFE INSURANCE


SBI Life targets Rs 200-500 cr of IMD redemption
SBI Life Insurance aims at tapping around Rs 200-500 crore from the redemption of Indian Millenium Deposits, due next month. It hoped to rake in this amount especially through its recently launched insurance policy "Dhana Vridhi", said Mr S. ... More

PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS


Chidambaram may discuss capital raising at bankers' meet
THE issue of raising additional capital for banks is expected to come up at the meeting the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, will have with the chairmen of banks in New Delhi on November 18. According to a senior bank official, issues such ... More

NON-PERFORMING ASSETS


GTB defaulters keen to negotiate settlement: OBC chief
Oriental Bank of Commerce has filed FIRs with the CBI against 29 cases involving 50 borrowal accounts, totalling NPAs worth more than Rs 1,300 crore. More

SHORT TERM INSTRUMENTS


T-bill auctions fully subscribed
THE auctions of the 91-day and 182-day Treasury Bills were fully subscribed, according to a press release from the Reserve Bank of India. The notified amount for both T-Bills was Rs 500 crore. For the 91-day T-Bill, the RBI received 50 ... More

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS


Left not softening stand on merger of PSU banks
THE resolve of the Left parties to oppose the merger of PSU banks does not appear to have diminished despite the upping of the sales pitch by the Finance Minister, Mr P. Chidambaram, in recent days. In an indication that the Government could be ... More

INTERVIEW


`Public issue by January likely'
THE Chairman and CEO of South Indian Bank, Mr V.A. Joseph, says that the bank's NPA has come down to 3.09 per cent from 4.61 per cent. The bank hopes to hit the market by January with a public offer. The following are the excerpts from CNBC ... More

PUBLIC OFFER


Union Bank gets nod for public issue
THE Union Bank of India said it has received approval from the Government for its second public issue. The public issue of 4.5 crore equity shares will be through a book-building process, said a press release. Post issue, the Government stake ... More



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