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Thursday, January 09, 2003
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S&P retains `junk' status for local currency rating
INTERNATIONAL rating agency Standard and Poor's today retained India's local currency ratings, which it had downgraded last September to junk status. The agency said the rating remains constrained by high public debt and serious fiscal ... More

Rupee stable; gilts weak
Mumbai: THE rupee ended on Wednesday at 47.97/98 against the dollar as compared to Tuesday's close of 47.9750/9800 in the forex market. The heavy supplies of the greenback were bought by private sector banks on the back of genuine corporate ... More

Current account deal limit raised
IN a bid to further liberalise the procedure for import of services, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has raised the limit for all admissible current account transactions up to $100,000 from the previous limit of $ 25,000. Where the advance ... More

HOUSING FINANCE


Dewan Housing in talks to raise tier II capital
DEWAN Housing Finance Corp Ltd (DHFL), which agreed "in principle" to buy 85.91 per cent equity stake in Vysya Bank Housing Finance Ltd for Rs 23.19 crore, is in talks with international agencies for Rs 50 -Rs 75 crore debt, the Managing ... More

RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS


RBI for 33 pc Govt holding in PSU banks
THE Reserve Bank of India is of the view that the Government should immediately bring down its shareholding to 33 per cent in nationalised banks to enable them to raise fresh capital from the market. According to Mr G.P. Muniappan, Deputy ... More

PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS


Andhra Bank to invest Rs 10 cr in biotech fund
ENABLING the Andhra Pradesh Government to finish the first closing of the proposed Rs 100-crore biotechnology venture fund, Andhra Bank, the Hyderabad-based public sector bank, has committed to invest Rs 10 crore in the venture fund to be managed ... More

Syndicate Bank to sell AIEEE forms
HYDERABAD: Syndicate Bank has announced that five of its branches in Andhra Pradesh have made arrangements to sell the application forms for the All India Engineering Entrance Examination (AIEEE) of the Central Board of Secondary ... More

INTEREST RATES


PNB lowers rates for term deposits
PUNJAB National Bank (PNB) has decided to revise downwards its domestic term deposit rates for certain terms on fresh deposits and renewal of existing deposits with effect from January 10. The new rate for deposits of 15-29 days and 30-45 days ... More

CORPORATE BONDS


6.10 pc coupon rate for Raymond issue
MUMBAI: Raymond Ltd has informed that it has achieved the lowest-ever annualised coupon rate for five-year debentures (put/call option at the end of third year) by a manufacturing company during a recent private placement of secured ... More

NON-PERFORMING ASSETS


Kochi DRT hit by staff shortage
WHILE there are more than 1,000 recovery certificates pending for execution before the Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT) in Kochi, there is effectively just one recovery officer who has to undertake the recovery of the decreed debts of banks and ... More

IDBI, IFCI can attach Mantralaya offices
Since the valuation of the properties falls short of the claim of the financial institutions, the DRT is understood to be looking into the matter of letting them attach State Government's treasury and bank account with the RBI to recover their dues. More

REGULATORY BODIES & RULINGS


IRDA for more tax sops to encourage savings
Senior IRDA officials told Business Line that the tax structure proposed by the insurance regulator stressed on incorporating significant tax incentives to encourage savings. More

TRENDS


Deposit your cash... and be charged for it
BANKS, you would have thought, welcome cash. That's their business, after all. But they seem to think that there is too much of it floating around. They want to charge you, if you deposit cash in your current account. Being charged for remitting ... More

No money for the poor
BANKERS have little appetite to fund projects aiding the poor. And when the poor decide to help themselves, they are keen on tripping them. A high power committee is now working on writing down regulations and supervisory guidelines to throttle ... More


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