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Banks Hammered 10%, Yes Bank –25% from July 15

Banks continue to get hammered as the RBI policy changes take short term rates to over 11%. Those who depend largely on wholesale funding, like Yes Bank and ...

Bank Stocks Tumble 4.8% on RBI News

Investors in Bank Stocks must be feeling horrible as the Bank Nifty dropped 4.8% on the news that RBI will effectively raise rates. Stocks like IndusInd and ...

RBI Wants Banks to Set More Aside for Unhedged Forex Exposure by Borrowers

RBI has announced draft guidelines for higher provisioning requirements while lending to corporates with “unhedged foreign currency exposure”. A quick ...

Chart: Base Rates of Indian Banks Don’t Respond Quickly When RBI Cuts Rates

Since RBI introduced the base rate in 2010, Banks are not allowed to lend below that rate. Take a look at how banks have moved their rates in response to RBI ...

30% of All Bank Deposits are in Mumbai and Delhi

Banking Statistics often throw up interesting statistics. Going through the latest "Quarterly Statistics of Credit and Deposits” provided by the RBI ...

Using your Credit Card at Foreign Sites? Get an EMV Chip-based Card

RBI has introduced new regulations on Feb 28, 2013 that mandate changes to all credit and debit cards issued by Indian banks. All these are applicable from Jun ...

Citibank Forces Suvidha Accounts To Rs. 100,000 Minimum Balance

Two people in my family received a registered post from Citibank when we weren’t around; and knowing Citibank I was sure something bad was going on, so we ...

LIEBOR: Banks Manipulate the Global Benchmark Rate

The big news of the last few days has been LIEBOR – or how banks like Barclays, Citi, HSBC, JP Morgan and so on – manipulated the London Interbank ...

Liquidity Very Tight: Repo at 199K cr.

Repo overnight borrowing is now nearly Rs. 2 trillion (200,000 cr.), which is 3% of “Net Demand and Time Liabilities” (which at last note was about 64 ...

RBI Cuts CRR by 0.75% From March 10, 2012

The Reserve Bank of India has cut the Cash Reserve Ratio (CRR) by 0.75% to bring it down to 4.75%. This, I think, is the lowest ever. In order to mitigate ...