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Shriram Life Insurance signs bancassurance deal with ESAF Small Finance Bank
Shriram Life Insurance Company (SLIC) has partnered with ESAF Small...
India’s financial inclusion index improves, surges to 67 from 64.2 in March 2024: RBI
It captures the level of financial inclusion using data from...
Global banking regulators agree to prioritise climate risk work
The oversight body of the world’s forum for banking regulators met on Monday to take stock of the committee’s work on climate-related financial risks and agreed to prioritize efforts to understand financial risk implications of extreme weather events, the Bank for...
Fed leaves rates unchanged, cites rising risk of higher inflation and unemployment
Fed Chair Jerome Powell "Uncertainty about the economic outlook has increased further," the FOMC said at the end of a two-day meeting during which officials agreed unanimously to keep the central bank's benchmark interest rate steady in the 4.25%-4.50% range...
Banks tighten cyber security network to ward off any threat
"We have strengthened the cyber security mechanism… we have created a 24 hours war room to diffuse any cyber attack… we are prepared for any eventuality," Punjab National Bank MD and CEO Ashok Chandra said New Delhi: Banks have tightened their cyber security network...
Govt moving ahead with IDBI Bank disinvestment plan in current fiscal: DIPAM Secy
Arunish Chawla,Secretary ,Department of Investment and Public Asset Management On the issue of further stake dilution in LIC, Chawla said the government aims to meet the minimum public shareholding requirement by the financial year ending March 2027, in line with the...
India, as fastest growing economy, is ideal investment destination: RBI Governor
Sanjay Malhotra,Governor,Reserve Bank of India . Malhotra highlighted that proactive government policies present unparalleled opportunities for investment in sunrise sectors such as space, semiconductors, renewable energy, and electric vehicles (EVs) Washington: India...
SBI Gen’s net profit more than doubled to Rs 509 crore in FY 25
Naveen Chandra Jha, MD & CEO, SBI General Insurance Naveen Chandra Jha, MD & CEO, SBI General Insurance, said, “We have been consistently growing faster than the market. In FY25, our GWP grew by 11.1 per cent, 70 per cent faster than the industry growth of...
India’s forex, money markets have doubled in last 4 years: RBI Governor
Sanjay Malhotra, Governor, Reserve Bank of India There has also been a 40 per cent surge in average daily volumes in the government securities (G-secs) markets to Rs 66,000 crore over the same period Mumbai: India’s financial markets have developed into a dynamic and...
Banks seek power to freeze accounts in illicit transactions cases to rein in cyber fraud
``Banks freeze/block accounts based on internal triggers, however, as per the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), they do not have the authority to freeze or block customer accounts without proper authorisation from a court or law enforcement agencies (LEAs. In...
Corporate credit tremors in aftershock of tariff-led stock rout
The move is fueling fears pension funds and other longer-term investors might also start purging higher-quality borrowers from their portfolios. With the majority of fixed-income trading happening off-market, it can be hard to track and measure sales The tariff shock...
RBI cuts rates by 25 bps for a second time as US tariffs add to growth risks
Sanjay Malhotra, Governor, Reserve Bank of India RBI has lowered the GDP growth forecast to 6.5 per cent from earlier projection of 6.7 per cent due to global uncertainties. The RBI lowered the inflation projection for the current fiscal to 4 per cent from 4.2 per...