Deposit

An FCNR (B) account lets customers maintain a fixed deposit in India in freely convertible foreign currencies for a tenure ranging from one to five years

Following this, many banks are exploring previously untapped areas to mobilise deposits while choosing not to engage in an interest rate war

Claim it will impact retail deposits as 90% are digitally linked

DGP GP Singh detailed that the Assam Police's action against unregulated deposit schemes has spanned 14 districts, resulting in 28 cases being registered and 59 arrests made

The govt is making the deposit crunch worse by taxing savers aggressively, but keeping the proceeds away from the financial system. Bankers are compounding the problem by not paying enough to savers

Amid concerns over the continuing gap between deposit and loan growth, SBI Chairman Dinesh Khara on Friday said it is not posing any challenges for the country's largest lender as it is able to support the uptick in advances. The bank is unwinding a part of its excess investments in government securities to arrange the required resources to support the loan growth, Khara told reporters here. It can be noted that for nearly two years, the deposit growth is trailing the credit expansion for the banking system, and SBI has also been seeing the same trends in its business. Some experts have been opining that this is due to flow of savings into higher yielding capital market alternatives, while some like SBI's own researchers also called the concerns a "statistical myth", saying the overall quantum of incremental deposits has been higher than advances since FY22. Asked about how concerning the situation is at present, Khara said, "We are in a position to support our loan book growth wel

Move to help lenders to gain low cost deposits

Among different bank groups, state-owned banks have seen a greater increase in interest rates on term deposits-both new and existing-compared to their private sector peers

Indian banks' loans rose 13.7% as of July 26 from a year earlier, while deposits grew 10.6%, latest provisional data from the RBI showed

Concerned over household savings moving towards alternative investment avenues, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday asked banks to mobilise deposits through innovative products and services by leveraging their vast branch network. "Banks are taking greater recourse to short-term non-retail deposits and other instruments of liability to meet the incremental credit demand. This, as I emphasised elsewhere, may potentially expose the banking system to structural liquidity issues," he said. Observing that alternative investment avenues are becoming more attractive to retail customers, he said, as a result banks are facing challenges on the funding front with deposits trailing loan growth. Banks, he said, need to focus more on mobilisation of household financial savings through innovative products and service offerings and by leveraging fully their vast branch network. Expressing concern over high growth in 'top-up' housing loans, Das said the regulatory prescriptions relating to lo

Outstanding loans fell Rs 98,700 crore ($11.84 billion) to Rs 16,400,000 crore in the two weeks to April 19

As India heads to the 18th general election, data over the years show voters' trust in independent candidates has been diminishing, with more than 99 per cent of independent candidates losing their deposits since 1991. Data compiled by the Election Commission of India show that since independence, even as the number of independent candidates has remained high, numbers of those winning polls have come down from over six per cent in 1951 and eight per cent in 1957, to around 0.11 per cent in 2019. An independent candidate is one who is not aligned with any recognised party. In the first elections of 1951-52, 533 independent candidates had contested, and 37 of them won, around 6.90 per cent. Election Commission regulations stipulate that candidates failing to secure a minimum of one-sixth of the total valid votes polled would have their deposits redirected to the treasury. The security deposit amount was Rs 500 for general candidates and Rs 250 for candidates from SC/ST communities i

Total deposits grew 14.8% to Rs 1.17 trn, lender tells exchanges

The move to withdraw Rs 2,000 denomination notes will yield deposits of up to Rs 1.5 lakh crore for the banking system, Axis Bank Chief Economist Saugata Bhattacharya said on Wednesday. Notes of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 1.5 lakh crore will come back into the system as deposits, Bhattacharya told reporters, adding that this should take the overall deposit growth to over 11 per cent in FY24. As per RBI data, the total value of Rs 2,000 notes in the system is Rs 3.62 lakh crore. Holders of the notes can either deposit the notes at banks, or get them exchanged over bank counters. It can be noted that the banking system has been passing through what some call as a 'war for deposits' at present, with a wide gap between the credit and deposit growth numbers. Bhattacharya said he expects the credit growth to slow down to 13 per cent in FY24 from 16 per cent, even as the deposit growth number will rise to 11-12 per cent from the single-digit figure in FY23. Meanwhile, Bhattacharya said Reserve Bank

Bandhan Bank's total deposits in the fourth quarter of last fiscal stood at Rs 1,08,069 crore, registering a rise of 12.2 per cent over the same period a year ago, the private lender said. Loans and advances during the quarter ended March 31 was at Rs 1,09,112 crore, reflecting a year-on-year growth of 9.8 per cent, it said in a release. Collection efficiency of micro-lending during the period under review came in at 98.5 per cent as against 98 per cent a year ago. The Kolkata-based bank said its current account, savings account (CASA) in the quarter to March stood at Rs 42,471 crore, representing a growth of six per cent over the corresponding period a year ago. Bulk deposits were at Rs 31,125 crore compared with Rs 21,890 crore in the fourth quarter of 2021-22, registering a growth of 42.2 per cent. The loan coverage ratio (LCR) of the bank stood at 157 per cent during the reporting period, the release added.

Mayopoulos said on a Tuesday conference call with clients that the future of the bank "is still being charted," and that the company could be recapitalized, taken over by a new owner or wound down

On Sunday, regulators in New York closed Signature Bank. As of March 8, the bank still held $16.5 billion in crypto-related deposits

The hope is that setting up such a vehicle would reassure depositors and help contain any panic

In July, the RBI took steps to enhance fresh inflows into NRI deposit accounts

Lenders may have to raise deposit rates at faster pace, says senior executive of agency