Credit card 'core business' but will avoid competing with the country's private banks, says Kusal Roy
Stock market highlights on February 19, 2024: Nifty index leaps to a new lifetime high of 22,187 after crossing previous high of February 2, 2024
Stocks to watch on Monday, February 19, 2024: Shares of Adani group are likely to be in focus as the group is said to be in advanced talks to raise up to $2.6 billion from sovereign funds.
Two-wheeler major Bajaj Auto has set February 29 as the record date for its Rs 4,000 crore buyback
The CASA deposits of the bank grew by 2.2 per cent quarter-on-quarter(QoQ) to Rs 8.35 trillion in Q3 FY24 with CASA ratio inching up to 37.7 per cent from 37.6 per cent in Q2 FY24
MFs bought 88.2 million shares in January after selling 53.3 million shares during the November-December period
Shares of HDFC Bank hit a 52-week low of Rs 1,363.45, down 2%, falling below its previous low of Rs 1,382.40 touched on January 24.
Largest private sector lender HDFC Bank on Wednesday said it has raised USD 300 million in its maiden sustainable finance bond issue. The money raised is part of the USD 750 million bond-raise which was announced on Tuesday, a statement said, adding that the papers will be listed on the GIFT City. The USD 300 million sustainable finance bonds have been raised for a tenure of three years at a spread of 0.95 per cent over the US treasury, while the remaining USD 450 million will be repaid in five years at 1.08 per cent over the US Treasury, the statement said. The spreads are the tightest by an Indian issuer, it said. The bank said proceeds of the sustainable finance bond will be utilised for funding green and social loans in accordance with the sustainable finance, while the rest will be deployed for financing general banking activities. HDFC group head for treasury Arup Rakshit elaborated that the sustainable finance bonds funds will be prioritised for lending towards electric ...
Private lender mops up $300 mn via maiden sustainable finance bond
Barclays, Bank of America, JP Morgan, MUFG and Standard Chartered are the joint global coordinators and lead managers
The range will have 4 variants - BizFirst, BizGrow, BizPower, and BizBlack
The group will also acquire stakes in Axis Bank, YES Bank Suryoday Small Finance Bank, IndusInd Bank, and Bandhan Bank
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) on January 31 stopped Paytm Payments Bank from accepting fresh deposits and carrying out transactions from February 29, 2024
RBI's approval is valid for one year from the date of RBI's letter, i.e., till February 4, 2025
Paytm has been in talks with JFSL since November last year and it reached out to HDFC Bank just before the RBI barred its Payments Bank from accepting more deposits from February 29
HDFC Bank's Regulation-S notes will be rated Baa3 by Moody's and BBB- by S&P
The two companies that saw the highest valuation gain were Microsoft and Nvidia. Both of these are associated with the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT
This is due to a relatively poor showing by top banking stocks on the exchanges in recent months. Analysts attribute this to the prospects of their muted earnings growth in the next few quarters
But moderates sequentially due to pressure on interest income
RIL and HDFC Bank contributed to over half of these gains