Savings of households in 'shares and debentures' has increased to 1 per cent of GDP in FY24, from 0.2 per cent in FY14
Rao was holding the post of deputy managing director and chief risk officer of the country's largest bank until his appointment as managing director
State Bank of India has announced Clerk Recruitment 2024 notification for 13,735 posts. Candidates can view the notice on the official website of SBI at sbi.co.in
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State Bank of India chairman C S Setty on Wednesday called for active participation by mutual funds and pension funds in the corporate bond market. "I am sure that a lot of corporates would like to issue bonds. I believe that if household/corporate savings are finding ways into these three investment categories, it is important that insurance and mutual funds also actively participate in the corporate bond market. I don't see that kind of participation actively coming in," Setty said. He said the pension/ mutual funds are making investments in AAA-rated bonds and this is not going to help deepen the corporate bond market. Setty said the corporate bond market has to come into financing of infrastructure as well as balance sheet funding of corporates. He said the investments are happening not only in equity but also in mutual funds, pension funds and insurance funds. "We have been debating on depth of the corporate bond market for many years. We could not achieve that depth," Setty
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The scheme aims for long-term capital growth by investing in a portfolio of equity securities while offering tax benefits under Section 80C of the Income-Tax Act, 1961
Bank has invited expressions of interest from entities interested in submitting counter bids for the asset on full cash basis
Current regulatory norms permit only credit and debit transactions to render an account operational.
Faced with the challenge of ensuring an account remains operative, the State Bank of India (SBI) has written to the Reserve Bank, requesting change in rules, and consider non-financial transactions like balance checking as well for tagging an account as operative. C S Setty, chairman of the country's largest lender, said many a time, an account holder, especially ones where cash transfers under government programmes is the primary usage, does limited number of financial transactions. After direct benefit transfer, the money gets credited into the account, there are at best two-three debit transactions before it becomes dormant and earns the tag of being inoperative, he said on the sidelines of a bank event late on Tuesday evening. Even a non-financial transaction should be able to activate the account, Setty said, adding, "We have taken it up with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)." He added that the current set of rules focus on financial transactions in a given point of time which
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The State Bank of India (SBI) is planning to open 500 new branches across India during the current financial year, Parliament was informed on Monday. Of this, 135 new branches have already been opened till October 31, 2024, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary said in a written reply in the Lok Sabha. Currently, the endeavour of the government is to ensure availability of a banking outlet (bank branch/business correspondent/ India Post Payments Bank) within 5 kilometres of all inhabited villages in the country, he said. Availability of banking outlets is monitored by a Geographic Information System (GIS)-based app, namely, Jan Dhan Darshak (JDD) app, he said. To another question regarding shortage of staff in SBI, Chaudhary said, public sector banks (PSBs) including SBI are board governed commercial entities. The requirement of manpower in each PSB is determined by the respective PSB keeping in view various factors which include, inter-alia, business requirement, spread
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Country's largest lender ups the ante for resources with two new schemes set to launch this month
State Bank of India (SBI) on Saturday said it has launched a nation-wide drive to raise awareness about the importance of inoperative account activation. A savings or a current account is treated as inoperative if the customer has no transaction in the account for a period of over two years. Activation of these accounts requires Re-KYC. Necessity of regular transactions in the account and preventing categorization into in-operative was the key message, SBI said in a statement. SBI chairman C S Setty emphasised the need to drive Re-KYC exercise in letter and spirit, to maintain PMJDY accounts in active status and enabling customers to conduct transactions seamlessly. He urged upon Business Correspondents to harness the technology to bridge the gap and reach the last-mile customer, thereby enhancing customer experience.
He says SBI is comfortable with liquidity with overall credit deposit ratio at a modest 68 per cent and the aim is to maintain incremental CD ratio at 100 per cent
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Thursday's session proved challenging for domestic markets, with benchmarks plunging sharply on the monthly F&O expiry. Sensex crashed 1,190 pts to 79,043.74, while Nifty slid 360.75 pts to 23,914.15