A day before, Rajnish Kumar, Bhattacharya's successor, told the media that reviving credit growth and resolution of stressed assets will be his top priority.
About 2,800 SBI’s associate employees have opted for voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) of the total 12,500 eligible for the scheme.
This is likely to affect over 31 crore savings deposit account holders including pensioners and students.
BMB’s total business of Rs 2,000 crore and its 103 branches will be merged with the country’s largest bank soon.
State Bank of India (SBI) will merge its five associate banks with itself from April 1, in the largest consolidation exercise in the banking history of India.
The Cabinet has approved the long-awaited merger of State Bank of India and its five associate banks. The merger will give a new look to the state-owned bank while creating a Rs 32-lakh crore banking giant.
The merged entity will create a banking behemoth, one-fourth of market share in India‘s banking sector (in terms of loans and deposits), with an asset base of about Rs 40 lakh crore from Rs 23 lakh crore.
The Cabinet has given approval to the merger of State Bank of India with its five subsidiaries, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced on Wednesday.
Market basically moves on two things – earnings and earnings outlook, says Raamdeo Agrawal Of Motilal Oswal Financial Services.
Leaders of various political parties from Kerala on June 15 demanded that the Centre withdraw the move to merge associate banks, including the State Bank of Travancore, with SBI