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State Bank of India Singapore on Wednesday said the planned YONO-UPI integration through PayNow will provide a bigger reach for India-bound transactions from Singapore. The SBI YONO-UPI-PayNow linkage comes amidst the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and the Association of Banks in Singapore (ABS) announcing a plan to launch two new payments solutions in the middle of this year to support the transition to e-payments for both corporate and retail cheque users. "For future enhancements, SBI Singapore is looking at having linkage to the UPI, a Government of India initiative system that powers multiple bank accounts through a single interface," SBI Singapore CEO M P Siva told PTI on Wednesday. "The planned YONO-UPI integration through PayNow will provide a bigger reach for India-bound transactions from Singapore, he said. Siva further noted that Singapore is one of the most important markets and we would like to be amongst the best in offering services, given the wide range of ..
State Bank of India chairman CS Setty on Friday pitched for the creation of a market infrastructure institution to track the end-use of funds borrowed or raised as equity by small businesses. A "viable mechanism" is needed to ensure that the funds are used for the intended purposes, Setty said in remarks which come amid heightened concerns on the subject of end-use of funds. "We will require a viable mechanism to track the actual use of these funds to ensure that the funds are utilised for the purposes they have been raised for, probably through the establishment of a separate market infrastructure institution with powers to track the use of borrowed funds or the funds raised through equities," Setty said. Addressing a conference organised by the Sebi-promoted NISM here, Setty said the creation of such a platform will provide comfort to lenders as well as investors, and make pricing more competitive. It can be noted that the RBI has been pressing lenders to monitor end-use funds, .
Country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) on Friday launched a green rupee term-deposit scheme with an aim to finance environment-friendly projects. The bank said the scheme is open to all individuals including non-resident Indians and offers investors the flexibility to choose from three distinct tenors: 1,111 days, 1,777 days, and 2,222 days. Currently, the scheme is available through the branch network and it will soon be made available through digital channels such as Yono and online banking, chairman Dinesh Khara said in a statement.
State Bank of India (SBI) will soon launch its banking mobile app Yono Global' in Singapore and the US, offering digitalized remittance and other services to its customers, Vidya Krishnan, Deputy MD (IT), said. We are continuing to invest in Yono Global to offer the best services available as we want to give superior experience to our customers, Krishnan told PTI at the three-day Singapore Fintech Festival (SFF), which ends on November 17. Krishnan held talks with Singapore-based digital platform enablers as well as the local regulator and central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). We are constantly working on the remittance story between India and Singapore, given the large number of Indian diaspora in the city state. Currently, SBI offers Yono Global services in 9 countries, starting with the UK operations in September 2019. SBI's foreign operations have a total balance sheet size of USD 78 billion. In Singapore, SBI is integrating its Yono Global app with PayNow a
Yono, the mobile app of the State Bank of India, fetches Rs 100 crore in fee income every quarter by selling products from the parent's subsidiaries, and the digital loan book will be close to Rs 30,000 crore this fiscal, according to a top official. The nation's largest lender, which is into the 217th year of operations, launched the app in 2014. Since then, it has gone on to become such a runaway success that as much as 85 per cent of banking transactions are done through Yono, State Bank of India (SBI) Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara said on Tuesday. He was speaking at a session at the fifth global fintech summit here. "I am happy to share that Yono gets us Rs 100 crore in fee income every quarter by selling the just commoditised products from our subsidiaries such as the life and general insurance arms, mutual fund and others," Khara said. According to him, when it comes to lending, especially pre-approved personal loans, during the past two fiscals, it has sold as much as Rs 21,0