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SAT rejects IRDA order, allows sale of pledged Reliance General insurance shares

Rejecting the  IRDA’s Dec 27 order, the SAT in its order on Thursday has asked the IDBI Trusteeship Services, that is holding the pledged shares as a custodian, to make every endevour to find a suitable buyer for the pleged shares.

“ As and when a suitable buyer is found suitable application would be made before IRDAI for appropriate approval to enable the IRDAI to carry out due diligence and to ascertain fulfillment of Fit and Proper criteria, financial soundness,’’ said the SAT order .

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Proposed IPO of LIC to benefit insurance industry: Fitch

“We think the insurer’s investment allocation decisions will be rationalised too, as major investment decisions could be subjected to additional scrutiny and approvals. LIC is one of the prominent institutional investors in several public sector assets, and in multiple instances has obtained exceptions from the insurance regulator to increase its stake in investee companies above the regulatory ownership cap of 15 per cent,” it said.

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Mega bank merger on track, says Sitharaman amid worry over April 1 deadline

“We are also conscious of extra load on them [banks] in terms of the kind of demands that I put on them. I have asked them to reach out to 400 districts, I have asked them to reach out to MSMEs, restructure their loan. So there is a lot of core banking work, which they are undertaking. I must be conscious of that also. So the merger and the decision taken by respective banks boards are all well taken. We are going as per schedule on that. There is no uncertainty on that. I am on course. There need not be speculation,” she said after unveiling EASE 3.0, the Public Sector Bank (PSB) Reforms Agenda 2020-21 for smart, tech-enabled banking, and the PSB EASE Reforms Annual Report 2019-20.

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