Central Bank Of India

The federal finance ministry is looking dilute minority shareholdings in Central Bank of India, Indian Overseas Bank, UCO Bank, and Punjab and Sind Bank

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Sequentially, the bank's net profit increased by 5.04 per cent from Rs 913 crore in Q2FY25. Its stock closed 3.1 per cent higher at Rs 54.41 per share on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE)

State-owned Central Bank of India posted a 33 per cent increase in its profit at Rs 959 crore in the third quarter ended December 2024. The bank had earned a net profit of Rs 718 crore in the same quarter a year ago. Total income increased to Rs 9,739 crore during the quarter under review against Rs 9,139 crore in the same period last year, the Central Bank of India said in a regulatory filing. The interest income of the bank also rose to Rs 8,509 crore during the quarter compared to Rs 7,809 crore in the same period a year ago. Operating profit of the bank improved to Rs 1,963 crore as against Rs 1,931 crore in December 2023. On the asset quality side, the bank's gross Non-Performing Assets (NPAs) declined to 3.86 per cent of the total loans at the end of December 2024 from 4.50 per cent a year ago. Net NPAs or bad loans also came down to 0.59 per cent from 1.27 per cent at the end of the third quarter of the previous fiscal. Capital Adequacy Ratio of the bank rose to 16.43 per

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The RBI sold around 15 billion rupees ($177.53 million) worth of 10-year green bonds to investors at a 6.79% coupon but devolved nearly 35 billion rupees worth of the note, the first such devolvement

Shares of Central Bank of India soared up to 10.56 per cent to hit an intraday high of Rs 57.86 a piece on Monday

Central Bank of India on Friday said it has got approval from the Reserve Bank to enter the insurance business through a joint venture with Generali group under FGIICL and FGILICL. In a filing to stock exchanges, the state-owned bank said the RBI accorded the approval vide a letter dated November 21, 2024. "...we would like to inform that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) vide its letter dated 21st November 2024 has approved the bank's entry in the insurance business through a joint venture with Generali group under FGIICL and FGILICL, subject to continuous compliance of conditions stipulated by it and approval of IRDAI, the sectoral regulator," the filing said. In October, the Competition Commission of India (CCI) had cleared the Central Bank of India's proposed acquisition of stakes in Future Generali India Insurance Company Ltd (FGIICL) and Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Ltd (FGILICL). FGIICL provides personal insurance, commercial insurance, social, and rural ...

FEL holds direct and indirect investments in the general insurer, Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited, which is a joint venture between the company and Genera Group

The state-owned lender has to get Irdai's approval in 90 days to buy FEL's stake in insurance JVs

Central Bank of India on Wednesday said it has emerged as the successful bidder for the stake acquisition of debt-ridden Future Enterprises Ltd (FEL) in life and general insurance venture. Central Bank of India has been declared as the successful bidder by the Committee of Creditors (CoC) for the sale of Category 1 assets of FEL in Future Generali India Life Insurance Company Limited and Future Generali India Insurance Company Limited, the state-owned bank said in a regulatory filing. The Letter of Intent dated August 20, 2024, is received by the bank in this regard, it added. Future Enterprises owns a 25 per cent stake in Future Generali India Insurance Company and a 33 per cent stake in Future Generali Life Insurance. On July 20, 2022, the Mumbai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) ordered initiating insolvency resolution proceedings against the debt-ridden FRL and dismissed objections raised by e-commerce major Amazon. The NCLT has passed the order after allowing

The rupee had declined to its all-time low of 83.7450 on Wednesday

For the recovery of this charge from account holders, public sector banks have formulated slab structures based on different geographies and segments

Go First owes creditors - Central Bank of India, Bank of Baroda, and IDBI Bank - around Rs 6,200 crore

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The Reserve Bank on Friday said it has imposed a penalty of Rs 1.45 crore on the Central Bank of India for non-compliance with certain directions related to 'loans and advances' and 'customer protection'. The RBI had conducted a statutory inspection for Supervisory Evaluation (ISE 2022) of the Central Bank of India with reference to its financial position as of March 31, 2022. A notice was issued to the bank, advising it to show cause as to why a penalty should not be imposed on it for its failure to comply with the directions, the RBI said. After considering the bank's response, the RBI found that charges against the bank were sustained. The bank sanctioned a working capital demand loan to a Corporation against amounts receivable from the government by way of subsidies. It also failed to credit (shadow reversal) the amount involved in a few instances of unauthorised electronic transactions to the customer's account within the stipulated time. In another release, the RBI said a .

Non-deliverable forwards indicate the rupee will open largely unchanged from 83.53 in the previous session

Central Bank of India standalone Q4FY24 results: Gross non-performing assets (NPA) ratio of the bank remained consistent at 4.50%, same as the last quarter

Bidders interested in two insurance joint ventures

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