Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai: Late night this past Tuesday 16 April 2019, Jet Airways was informed by the State Bank of India (SBI), on behalf of the consortium of Indian Lenders, that they were unable to consider its request for critical… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Hong Kong/Singapore: The resignation of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor on 11 December follows a period of government pressure on the central bank to spur economic growth, and highlights risks to the RBI’s policy priorities, says… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai: Fitch maintains a negative sector outlook on Indian banks, to reflect the ongoing struggle of state banks with weak core capitalisation amid rising macro headwinds and poor profitability. Indian banks need significantly more capital than that the… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) Central Board met today in Mumbai and discussed the Basel regulatory capital framework, a restructuring scheme for stressed MSMEs, bank health under Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework and the Economic Capital… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai: Four years down the line, after Narendra Modi assumed office as Prime Minister, with inflation clouds looming over Indian economy, the Reserve Bank of India has increased the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) by… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Hong Kong/Singapore: Regulators in most Asia-Pacific (APAC) markets are likely to remain proactive in their use of macroprudential measures, and this could have a greater near-term impact on banks’ operating environment and credit profiles than the adoption of… Read More ›
ewsroom24x7 Network Mumbai/Singapore: An investigation into allegations that India’s ICICI Bank (BBB-/Stable/bbb-) extended a loan with a potential conflict of interest raises questions over the bank’s governance and creates reputational risks, says Fitch Ratings. According to Fitch, other regulatory sanctions… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Singapore: Fitch Ratings has placed Punjab National Bank’s (PNB) Viability Rating of ‘bb’ on Rating Watch Negative (RWN), following the large fraud reported by PNB. Fitch will resolve the Rating Watch once more clarity emerges on the extent… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation has registered a case on 15 February 2018 under section 120B read with 420 of IPC and 13(2) read with 13(1)(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act against a Managing Director of a… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai: The Punjab Nationl Bank share price plummeted to a 52 week low to 125.25 on the NSE on Thursday against a high of 231.45 on 26 October 2017 in the wake of Punjab National Bank’s regulatory filing… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai: The Indian government’s USD32 billion recapitalisation programme should help in part to mitigate the risks that Indian state banks face on account of weak asset quality and poor earnings, says Fitch Ratings. However, unwinding of these risks… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network New Delhi: Vital information has been received by the Government of India from 13 banks regarding the bank account operations and post-demonetization transactions of some of the 2,09,032 suspicious companies that had been struck off the Register of… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai/Singapore: Indian banks are likely to require around USD65 billion of additional capital to meet new Basel III capital standards that will be fully implemented by the financial year ending March 2019 (FY19), according to Fitch Ratings’ latest… Read More ›
Newsroom24x7 Network Mumbai/Singapore: This month’s capital injection into IDBI Bank suggests the Indian government remains unwilling to allow state banks to miss coupon payments on Additional Tier 1 (AT1) instruments, says Fitch Ratings. IDBI may have been at risk of… Read More ›
