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ICICI Prudential Pension Funds crosses Rs 50,000 crore AUM
Today, ICICI Prudential Pension Funds serves over 1.2 lakh NPS...
NCDEX in partnership with IMD to develop country’s first weather derivatives
This Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), signed on June 26, lays the...
Gulf shipping costs drop as Israel-Iran ceasefire holds
Shipping rates for supertankers, which can carry 2 million barrels of oil, jumped over the past week before the ceasefire - more than doubling to over $60,000 a day. Rates were quoted around $50,000 a day on Thursday, freight data showed. "Tanker rates … have been...
PwC’s AI chief says firm has cut prices as tech saves staff time
``Clients would hear us talking about using AI and say, We want our fair share of those efficiencies. We certainly, as appropriate, give our clients the pricing benefit of the efficiencies we’re achieving. Like it’s competitors, PwC helps clients integrate...
FPIs on course to become net buyers in India for third month
Latest data made available by National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) showed that FPIs had bought stocks worth ₹8,915 crore in June so far. In April and May, the FPIs had accumulated stocks worth ₹4,223 crore and ₹19,860 crore, respectively. New Delhi: Foreign...
95 crore people now benefiting from social security schemes: PM Modi
“Today, around 95 crore people of the country are getting the benefit of some or the other social security scheme; whereas, till 2015, the government schemes were reaching less than 25 crore people,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi said. New Delhi: Prime Minister...
Finmin asks public sector banks to monetise investments in subsidiaries via listing on bourses
For example, the country's biggest lender State Bank of India may look at listing SBI General Insurance and SBI Payment Services in the future after they scale up their operations.The general insurance arm of SBI has allotted 3,71,693 equity shares of ₹10 each during...
Monsoon havoc claims 34 lives, causes Rs 7,119 lakh loss in Himachal: State Govt
The highest damage has been reported to infrastructure under the Public Works Department, Jal Shakti Vibhag, and Power sectors,Himachal Pradesh Revenue Department stated Private property loss has been reported to be Rs 3,076.03 lakh, public property loss is reported...
Indian life insurance industry to launch its Rs 450 crore nationwide multimedia campaign on July 2
Swaminathan S Iyer, member, Life, IRDAI, will be in Mumbai along with other CEOs of life insurance industry to unveil the multimedia public awareness Initiative for consumer education and action that will continue for couple of years Mumbai: After the Indian general...
Vessels near Strait of Hormuz transmit unusual messages to prevent attacks
“The perception among shipowners is that due to the convoluted nature of shipping it’s hard to know or ascertain clearly a chain of ownership to nationalities which may be under higher threat in shipping, namely the UK, U.S. and Israel,” said Ami Daniel, chief...
Sitharaman asks PSBs to develop credit models to fund Indian made small modular nuclear reactors
Lto R -M. Nagaraju,secretary,Department of Financial Services, Nirmala Sitharaman, Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs and Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary at a high-level meeting in New Delhi to review performance of PSBs Sitharaman...
RBI issues directions on AePS operators onboarding to enhance security
The RBI has asked the acquiring bank to carry out due diligence of all ATOs before onboarding the AePS Touchpoint Operator (ATO), which is the same as the one followed while acquiring a customer, as per the directions. Mumbai: The Reserve Bank on Friday issued...