The Hindu Business Line : Wednesday, January 10, 2007

REGIONAL RURAL BANKS
Micro-finance — Lessons from Bangladesh
Micro-finance has emerged as a promising tool for reducing the poverty and empowering the underprivileged, especially women. . In India, the Self-help Group-Bank linkage programme, initially started by Nabard (National Bank for Agriculture and ... More

INSIGHT
Public sector not doomed to fail
France and the Nordic countries are outstanding examples of the successful functioning of public enterprises in utilities and transportation. More

FOREX
Rupee gains 12 paise
The rupee strengthened by about 12 paise on FII dollar inflows into the domestic stock markets. On Tuesday, the rupee opened at 44.43/45, touched an intra-day low of 44.50/51 to finally close at 44.37, against the previous close ... More

HOUSING FINANCE
Banks staring at fewer takers for home loans
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CONSUMER FINANCE
Swipe your debit card and drive away a car
As part of its retail banking initiative, ICICI Bank has introduced a new service of sanctioning car loans in about an hour for its savings bank account customers. "Loans on the Spot" or LOTS allows a customer to swipe his debit card at the ... More

GENERAL INSURANCE
General insurance unions for merger
In the banking industry, the Finance Minister wants consolidation among public sector banks and has been championing the cause at every forum - but the unions are opposed to it. The situation is the reverse in the case of the general ... More

Howden sees better scope here than in China
Liability insurance market is very small in India compared to US and UK More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS
Margins for `commodity' guarantees
Commodity traders will have to bear the same margin requirements as that for stockbrokers. In a notification issued on Tuesday, the RBI has asked banks to maintain a minimum margin of 50 per cent and minimum cash margin ... More

INTEREST RATES
Rates more or less peaked: SBI chief
The State Bank of India Chairman, Mr O.P. Bhatt, said on Tuesday that interest rates have more or less peaked and maintained that rates would remain stable in the short-term. "The interest rate cycle may be at peak or near peak," Mr Bhatt told ... More

GOVT BONDS
Bond prices fall on profit booking
Bond prices fell by around 10 paise on profit-booking. Total traded volumes on the order matching system were lower at Rs 2,875 crore (Rs 7,420 crore). Market participants were closely monitoring the tightening liquidity in the ... More

CREDIT MARKET
Banks going slow on retail lending
To ensure credit for productive sectors More

SHORT TERM INSTRUMENTS
Call rates end higher
Call rates closed higher at 8.25-8.5 per cent (8-8.1 per cent) for the second day in a row, following the second hike in CRR by 25 basis point. In the first one-day repo auction under LAF, the RBI received and accepted 21 bids ... More

EVENTS
Seminar on tax planning
HDFC Standard Life Insurance (HDFCSL) is organising a seminar on Tax Planning and Investment on January 10 at Coimbatore. A tax consultant, Mr Subhash Lakhotia, Director of Lakhotia & Lakhotia Associates, will be the key speaker More

CONSUMERISM
Panel wants banks to improve redressal
Parliamentary panel to study steps taken by banks More

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