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IndiaFirst Life’s corporate agency partnership with Northern Arc Capital
IndiaFirst Life Insurance Company (IndiaFirst Life) has announced a...
Fintech sector must focus on financial education and consumer protection, says DFS Secretary
M Nagaraju, secretary,Dpartment of Financial Services Secretary...
Credit Suisse bondholders consider legal advice on extinguished AT1 Bonds
Some distressed debt-type funds have been buying Credit Suisse’s AT1s for a few cents on the dollar. The bonds were traditionally held by institutional investors. Credit Suisse bondholders are seeking legal advice after the Swiss regulator ordered 16 billion Swiss...
FM reviews PSBs’ performance amid stress in US fin systems; asks bankers to be vigilant about rate risks
Nirmala Sitharaman,Union Finance Minister The finance minister underlined that PSBs must look at business models closely to identify stress points, including concentration risks and adverse exposures, the statement said, adding that she also exhorted PSBs to use this...
ECB to publish first detailed carbon footprint
Carbon footprints measure the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of everyday activities ECB runs climate stress tests on the euro zone's commercial banks and has been increasing the penalties - or haircuts, in banking jargon - charged on...
US studies ways to insure all bank deposits if crisis grows
Treasury Department staff are reviewing whether federal regulators have enough emergency authority to temporarily insure deposits greater than the current $250,000 cap on most accounts without formal consent from a deeply divided Congress, according to people with...
Indian bank deposits better protected than in US: SBI report
Analysis of insured customer deposits across multiple geographies initiated in the wake of bank runs across developed economies reveal US's top 10 banks deposits are insured in the range of 38.4-66 per cent, according to a research titled, Ecowrap, of the State Bank...
UBS to buy Credit Suisse for nearly USD 3.25B to calm turmoil in global financial markets
Credit Suisse is among the 30 financial institutions known as globally systemically important banks, and authorities worried about the fallout if it were to fail Authorities sought an agreement before markets opened again in Asia Geneva:Banking giant UBS is buying...
Digital banking may be booming but cyber frauds get smarter, reveals RTI
Additionally, based on offsite returns data provided by supervised entities, there were a staggering 2,99,765 cyber frauds involving Debit Cards/Credit Cards, with an amount of Rs 322.92 crore lost (2020-2021); the instances came down to 2,21,705 but a higher amount...
Bank turmoil poses a $600 billion question for battered investors
Bank investors have largely been selling first and leaving that question for later. Around $600 billion dollars of market value has evaporated from the 70 biggest US and European banks since March 6, a period that’s seen the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Credit...
U.S. insurers’ direct exposures to bank failures modest; Liability profiles support stability, says Fitch
Fitch's sector outlooks for U.S. Life and U.S. P&C are ‘neutral’ Insurers’ investments to the failed banks (Silicon Valley Bank, Silvergate and Signature Bank) are modest. Fitch-rated insurance entities’ direct investment exposure to the failed banks (comprising...
Banking fears spread across global markets
While stocks recouped some of their losses on Tuesday, investors remain wary of the banking fallout and what it means for the Federal Reserve's interest rate-hiking campaign going forward and the overall stability of the financial sector Just as the panic over the US...