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Mumbai, Apr 8 (PTI) Indian scheduled commercial banks' gross non-performing assets (NPAs) ratio declined further to 2 per cent in December 2025, the Reserve Bank said on Wednesday. Gross NPAs -- which represents the proportion of loans unpaid for over 90 days -- for the banking system had stood at 2.5 per cent in the year-ago period, as per the bi-annual Monetary Policy Report released by the central bank. The improvement in asset quality was across sectors, including retail loans, services, i ...Read More >
Synopsis: India's largest private bank is in focus today after RBI approved its group entities to together hold a maximum 9.5% stake in IndusInd Bank. This move is due to a regulatory requirement; let us see what more about this approval and what it stands for. This company, which is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai. And India's largest private sector bank by assets and one of the world's largest bank by market capitalisation is in focus after RBI approve ...Read More >
New Delhi: A 25-year-old man was arrested on Saturday for duping his father of ₹26.32 lakh by creating a new UPI ID from the father's phone number and making multiple online purchases over four months, police said. According to police, the accused Shivam Sharma is a former corporate employee and is the victim's son from his second marriage. Sharma purportedly felt alienated after the man, 68, handed over his Azadpur Mandi parking business to his son from the first marriage. Deputy commissioner ...Read More >
Mumbai: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has revised its existing rules to make retail loans more flexible, widened the scope for lending against gold and silver collateral, and provide easier capital-raising avenues for banks besides improving credit information systems. Announced through seven directions and circulars on Monday evening, three of these changes will take effect from October 1, while four others have been released for public consultation until October 20, 2025. Draft proposals, me ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi launched a scathing attack on the Gandhi family on Saturday, accusing them of shielding each other in corruption cases and questioning the constitutional propriety of Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi's recent tweet defending his brother-in-law Robert Vadra. Speaking to the media in New Delhi, Trivedi took a sharp dig at LoP Gandhi, saying, "He stood in support of his 'hardworking farmer' brother- ...Read More >
Mumbai, July 19 (SocialNews.XYZ) RBL Bank on Saturday posted a net profit of Rs 200 crore for the first quarter of current financial year (Q1 FY26), down 46 per cent year-on-year (YoY), the private sector lender said in an exchange filing. The bank had posted Rs 371.5 crore profit in corresponding quarter a year ago (Q1 FY25). However, the private bank saw a strong rebound sequentially from the Rs 69 crore reported in Q4 FY25. Meanwhile, the bank's total standalone income stood at Rs 4,510 cr ...Read More >
New Delhi, July 17 (SocialNews.XYZ) After a challenging first half marked by margin compression and falling loan yields, India's banking sector is set to turn the corner in the third quarter of FY26 (3QFY26), a report said on Thursday. Private and public sector banks are entering a transition phase, where lagged benefits of deposit repricing, systemic liquidity infusion, and improving asset quality start to lift earnings, Motilal Oswal Institutional Equities said in a report. As per the report ...Read More >
Mumbai: A new report by the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) warns that Indian banks must prepare for a period of heightened interest rate volatility after more than a decade of relatively stable and downward-trending rates. The study, Interest Rate Sensitivity in Indian Banking, highlights that the impact of policy rate changes on bank performance is neither immediate nor uniform, and that credit growth is more dependent on borrower sentiment and lender confidence than on rates alone.Empirical evi ...Read More >
MUMBAI: Loan write-offs were a major reason for the massive reduction in non-performing assets (NPAs) ratio over the past five years, which has hit a multi-decadal low of 2.3 per cent in the just concluded fiscal, shows the data from the Reserve Bank. The asset quality of commercial banks improved massively with gross NPAs and net NPAs declining to multi-decadal lows of 2.3 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively in FY25, the regulator said in its biannual Financial Stability Report released la ...Read More >
Sangareddy (Telangana) [India], July 1 (ANI): Telangana Governor Jishnu Dev Varma has expressed grief over the tragic fire accident that occurred at the Pashamylaram industrial area in Sangareddy district that killed 12 people. The Governor paid condolences to the families of those who lost their lives in the incident and wished a speedy recovery to the injured. Also Read | Rules Changing From July 1, 2025: From LPG Cylinder Prices and Railway Fares to Aadhaar-PAN Link, Check Key Rule Changes ...Read More >
Mumbai: Even as global economic risks mount, India continues to stand out as a key engine of global growth on the back of strong domestic fundamentals and a resilient financial system, RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra said in the central bank's financial stability report."In a world of increasing uncertainty, India remains a key driver of global growth," Malhotra said, highlighting the country's robust demand, prudent policymaking, and macroeconomic stability. While external shocks and climate-relat ...Read More >
New Delhi: HDFC Bank has once again slashed its fixed deposit (FD) interest rates. This marks the second cut this month. The bank starting June 25, 2025 has reduced rates by 25 basis points on select FD tenures for deposits below Rs 3 crore. This latest move comes just two weeks after a similar rate cut on June 10, following the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI) decision to lower the repo rate from 6 per cent to 5.5 per cent. As India's largest private bank, HDFC's back-to-back cuts are likely to i ...Read More >
JAIPUR: In a massive financial fraud case, a female officer at a private bank in Kota has been arrested for misappropriating over Rs 4.58 crore from customer accounts over a span of three years. The accused, Sakshi Gupta, was serving as a relationship manager at ICICI Bank and is alleged to have diverted funds from fixed deposits to invest in the stock market and faced heavy losses. Police officials revealed that between 2020 and 2023, Gupta illegally withdrew money from 110 fixed deposit acco ...Read More >
Mumbai: Consumers are exhibiting a preference for placing deposits in the one- to three-year category, with lenders also favouring this tenure. A breakup of the deposits by tenor for 4QFY25 showed that about 65% of the overall deposits contracted are in the one- to three-year bucket. Moreover, 80% of individual term deposits had ticket sizes between ₹1 lakh and ₹15 lakh. The fourth quarter of FY25 saw a 5-percentage-point jump in deposits in the 7-8% interest-rate bucket, with some signs of a sl ...Read More >
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