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The new strategy comes nearly a year after ADB approved reforms to unlock $100 billion in new financing capacity over a decade, meeting a mandate from U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen

According to the RBI list, banks will remain closed for 12 days in July, including second and fourth Saturdays and Sundays. Check the full list of bank holidays in July here

Jammu and Kashmir Bank on Monday reported a 96 per cent jump in net profit at Rs 326 crore in the June quarter, aided by decline in bad loans. The Srinagar-based lender had posted a net profit of Rs 166 crore in the year-ago period. The Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir holds 63.41 per cent stake in the bank. Total income in the first quarter of the current fiscal rose to Rs 2,885 crore from Rs 2,306 crore in the same period a year ago, J&K Bank said in a regulatory filing. Interest earned by the bank improved to Rs 2,657 crore as against Rs 2,103 crore in June 2022. The bank's asset quality showed an improvement as gross non-performing assets (NPAs) declined to 5.77 per cent of gross advances at the end of the June quarter, from 9.09 per cent a year ago. Similarly, net NPAs, or bad loans, declined to 1.39 per cent, as against 3.02 per cent in the year-ago period. As a result, provision for bad loans came down to Rs 56 crore, as against Rs 135 crore allocated in the same ...

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In a Q&A, the lender's MD & CEO says the bank's NPA ratio could improve further as it doesn't have any large loan that needs to be regarded as bad

Pental, who has been with YES Bank since November 2015, will continue to head retail banking; he is also non-executive director at YES Securities

Indian state-run and private banks raised an aggregate of 611.94 billion rupees ($7.39 billion) in October-December, more than double the 301.34 billion rupees raised in July-September

Fall in non-interest income, rise in bad loan provisions drag down company's net

While the impetus to double-digit credit growth was from wholesale lending, retail credit growth continued to be robust

Affirms Baa3 deposit ratings of both Indian private sector lenders; outlook on ratings for both banks, where applicable, remains stable

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TCS will work to simplify and transform bank's application estate across businesses-financial markets, wholesale and retail banking

We want to make sure within 90 days depositors get the money so that small depositors who make up 98% of all depositors will get their money in time, she said

Banks' ability and/or willingness to lend to persons or entities that needed credit were hampered

Banks need to value their trading portfolio in sync with the market rate

Bank deposits rose 2.63 trillion rupees to 108.05 trillion rupees in the two weeks to March 31

The infrastructure sector continues to reel under the 'twin balance sheet' issue

Weakening growth in loans or credit, continued stress on asset quality and cuts in lending rates have impacted profitability at banks, both in the private and public sector. Public sector banks' (PSBs') problems are more structural and will resolve only when they become self-sustained, especially the mid and smaller ones. Large private banks seem to be faltering on a key strength, their hitherto healthy pre-provisioning operating profits. Growth in this metric has been coming down over the past two quarters for most of the large ones (see table). While the drop in the latest, December, quarter could be attributed partly to demonetisation and to slower economic growth, this weakness started in the June 2016 quarter, even earlier in some cases. Not a good sign for investors. Higher pre-provisioning operating profit provides a cushion to earnings, even amid stress on asset quality, as the bank can use part of these for higher provisions for bad loans. This was a key reason why most ...

The incident took place on Tuesday when the woman arrived at the bank to get her currency notes exchanged

The man was admitted to local hospital for treatment, says Senior Inspector