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A QIP is often seen as a faster alternative to rights issues or follow-on public offerings, enabling publicly listed firms to raise capital by offering shares or convertible instruments to institutional investors
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Experts believe that the excessive volatility in the rupee may prompt the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to intervene in the market to curb volatility. If Indian rupee breaches the 87-mark, it would be first time since mid-March this year that it will touch that level.
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Interestingly, creation of HDFC Ltd was financially supported by erstwhile ICICI Ltd, the parent entity of ICICI Bank.
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During the verification process, MPJNL received emails, seemingly from Punjab National Bank’s official domain, confirming the guarantees. However, these were later found to be fake.
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Small finance banks currently have to extend 75% of their loans to priority sectors. After a review, the Reserve Bank of India has effectively cut the requirement to 60% of total lending.
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The package of measures will provide some certainty in the times of uncertainty and is expected to support growth, says RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra
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Priced at Rs 700–740 per share, the IPO is up to 50 percent below levels paid by early investors pre-IPO
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A LocalCircles survey has revealed that digital insurance platforms are using tactics such as pre-ticked boxes, policy bundling and 'privacy zuckering' to push unwanted products and collect excessive data, prompting regulatory scrutiny.
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Baseline outlook for FY26 inflation largely comfortable. Core CPI trends show underlying inflation pressures contained, says MPC member Rajiv Ranjan
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Development in the financial services space is a mix of good, bad and ugly. Nonetheless, the current happenings and its impact, expected to unravel in the next 12 - 18 months, will be critical in shaping the medium-term outlook for the financial services sector
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The central bank has increased scrutiny of the derivatives books of private and foreign banks, sources said. Scrutiny of other banks has increased after the IndusInd Bank earlier this year reported a Rs 1,959.8-crore discrepancy in its derivatives portfolio
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Trump will decide within the next two weeks whether the US will take action, as there is a possibility of upcoming negotiations with Iran, press secretary Karoline Leavitt has said
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Unlike his predecessor Shaktikanta Das, Malhotra has leaned decisively toward growth.
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The norms will come into force with effect from October 01, 2025, RBI said . In February, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra had said that project financing norms will get deferred by a year and are not to going be implemented before March 31, 2026.
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Major players such as HDFC Life Insurance, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, SBI Life Insurance, and Bajaj Allianz Life Insurance have significantly cut their exposure to group product category in FY25.
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The accused bank officials formed a criminal conspiracy and sanctioned loans to Harinder Pal Singh's Percept Group companies to the tune of Rs 77 crore, without completing due diligence, says the complaint
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The bank is also exploring opportunities to partner with a few wealth management companies to start the operations, sources told Moneycontrol
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The dollar index surge after the US Federal Reserve left rates unchanged at 4.25-4.5 percent
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The overall Supervisory Data Quality Index (sDQI) score of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) has improved in March 2025 to 89.3, as compared to 88.6 in March 2024, RBI release showed.
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The RBI’s review of Standard Chartered is ongoing, with focus on derivative products and risk governance
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Market participants said call money rates should be lower than the repo rate, but that excessively lower rates could lead to inflation.
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Oil prices jumped over 4 percent as the Iran-Israel conflict intensifies
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RBI’s higher LTV ceiling sparks opportunity for NBFCs, but gold price volatility demands tight risk controls
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Sources say the transaction which has concluded at 1.07 times Profectus’ projected FY26 net worth, is being funded by UGRO through proceeds from its recently completed equity raise and internal accruals.
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Family members of Tata Group, Reliance Industries amd Adani Group account for around 24 percent of peomoter wealth, estimated at Rs 36 lakh crore.
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The gap between the repo and overnight call money rates suggest that banks are availing of cheaper funds from the market than from the RBI’s liquidity operation.
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Prominent insurers such as Star Health and Allied Insurance, Niva Bupa Health Insurance, HDFC Life Insurance, Tata AIG General Insurance, and Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) have found themselves at the forefront of data breaches
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Usually, as per economists, an increase of $10 per barrel on crude oil prices leads to about 0.4%-0.6% increase in inflation. Barclays in a report said that the sharp ~USD10/barrel increase in crude oil prices since the escalation in Iran-Israel conflict over the past week, if it continues, would put further upside pressure on prices in June.
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The retail depositor is more than willing to settle for lower deposit rates towards safety amid uncertain markets.
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Batra has been responsible for Corporate Centre since July 2018. He is responsible for Corporate Communications, Finance, Human Resources, Legal, Customer Service & Secretarial Groups
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These draft directions were prepared by the central bank due to emergence of new products as well as the participation of the non-residents in the market, and to align it with the market and other related developments.
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The increase in bank deposit insurance cover paid by banks comes at a time when a cooperative lender - New India Co-operative Bank - has been facing regulatory action by RBI.
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India's inflation dips to a 75-month low but can the RBI keep the pressure cooker from boiling over?
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Bank of Baroda raised higher funds through green deposits than its PSU peers, raising Rs 1,063.44 crore in FY25, followed by Punjab National Bank raising Rs 394.31 crore, Canara Bank raising Rs 134.71 crore, and State Bank of India raising Rs 105.92 crore in FY25.
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Mis-selling of financial products is at least a two-decade old problem and a solution is nowhere in sight. Maybe finding a solution is still many years away, but it would be worth trying to find the root cause of the problem
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The last time the RBI rejected bids on the sovereign green bonds was on May 31, 2024, as per central bank’s database.
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While the aviation insurance sector faces mounting pressure from global events, individual travel insurance policies are expected to remain stable for now, with only moderate increases projected over the next year
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The bulk of the fees or commission has come from selling life insurance policies followed by non-life insurance policies, Moneycontrol has found
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The Nuveen-backed MSME lender sold stressed assets to an ARC at a steep loss in FY25 amid rising covenant breaches and credit stress
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The board of the bank has engaged global recruitment firm Egon Zehnder to help find a new CEO
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Usually, when the oil prices rises, it have an impact on the domestic inflation due to India's heavy reliance on imported crude oil. This dependency means that rising oil prices could lead to higher costs across various industries, ultimately driving up inflation.
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Crude was up over 9% and the dollar index too spiked as Israel struck Iran's nuclear and missile sites, putting pressure on the rupee
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India’s microfinance sector is reeling under a client drop, shrinking loans, and rising defaults
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This decision was taken based on consultation with the State Governments/Union Territories and the feedback received from market participants, RBI said in a release.
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As of March 2025, there are 26 InvITs are registered with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Of this, 21 are privately listed and only five are publicly listed.
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Air India’s fleet is insured for $20 billion with a $30 million premium, unchanged from the 2023-24 financial year’s $30 million for $10 billion coverage
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In FY25, state-owned banks’ profitability rose sharply due to higher income from lending, treasury gains and lower provisioning for bad loans.
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As stress persists for banks on the deposit mobilisation front, a few banks have tapped the short-term debt market to raise funds through certificates of deposits.
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Piramal Group, which holds stakes in Shriram’s insurance businesses, is neither actively looking to exit nor in a rush to do so and will take a call as things unfold, says Subhasri Sriram
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RBI will amend regulations to prevent overseas transfers from being used to park money in time deposits or other interest-bearing accounts abroad, one of the sources said.
