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The court also asked DBIL to give an undertaking that the bank would give cash compensation to the shareholders of LVB if it was asked to do so.
The Madras High Court has refused to stay the merger of LVB with DBS Bank India.
During the Yes Bank rescue earlier this year also, there was an over Rs 7,000-crore bond write-off, but that involved a different instrument called additional tier-I bonds.
Division bench says merger has already come to operation, Centre and RBI are free to proceed as per the scheme
The Reserve Bank of India on late Thursday said Rs 3.18 billion of Tier 2 bonds of Lakshmi Vilas Bank Ltd. will be fully written down as DBS Group Holdings Ltd
The merger will be effective from November 27 and all branches of LVB will operate as those of DBIL from the same day.
The move is part of steps to absorb non-performing assets before LVB's amalgamation with DBS Bank
The merger is set to be effective from November 27.
The bank employees' body said the merger of LVB with the Indian subsidiary of a Singapore-based bank is goes against the Centre's 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' policy.
All that happened in the markets today
Govt asks RBI to act against those guilty for troubled lender's woes
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) took control of LVB on November 15 due to a 'serious deterioration' in its finances and temporarily capped withdrawals
At Rs 8 a share, LVB stock price has almost halved since the merger announcement
Party General Secy D Rajan wants the ailing lender to be merged with a PSU bank instead, says this has been done in many cases in the past
The government has placed the lender under a one-month moratorium and superseded its board
Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day
The bank's asset quality deteriorated as the gross non-performing assets (NPAs) moved up at 24.45 per cent of the gross advances by the end of Q2 FY21
It sends a strong signal to promoters and influential investors in the not-so-well-run banks to behave or lose their shirt
India called upon called upon a foreign institution to take over Lakshmi Vilas Bank's assets and liabilities. That should stoke interest of other global banks