YES Bank, the single largest shareholder of DTH company Dish TV, today said it has not been approached by Bharti Airtel for buying the stake in Dish TV. Prashant Kumar, the MD & CEO of the bank, however indicated that bank is not averse to selling its nearly 26% stake in the company for the […]
Life Insurance Corporation of India, a government-controlled insurance company that has the highest share of the market in India, can continue to increase its stake in private lender Kotak Mahindra Bank, having got the nod from Reserve Bank of India to increase its stake to 9.99%. LIC has been increasing its stake in Kotak Mahindra […]
One 97 Communications, which operates the PayTM payments platform in India, revealed details of its October performance late on Sunday, hours before trading resumed in its shares after a volatile first day on Thursday. The company’s shares had fallen by a whopping 27% on day 1, wiping out around Rs 38,000 cr of investor wealth […]
Adding another dimension to the legal battle over the impending extraordinary general meeting called by Dish TV’s largest shareholder YES Bank, the DTH operator said a local office of Uttar Pradesh Police has asked the company to ensure that YES Bank does not deal in or liquidate its Dish TV shares, pending an investigation by […]
Tata Consultancy Services, the largest India-based IT services and outsourcing provider, said it has extended its support agreement with India’s largest bank, State Bank of India, by another five years. TCS has been a key supplier of IT and outsourced services to SBI for two decades. As part of the agreement, TCS will continue to […]
Indiabulls Housing Finance, which recently generated over Rs 800 cr from retail investors by the way of non-convertible debentures (a kind of corporate fixed deposit), said it paid back NCDs worth Rs 7,075.84 cr in September. It also said it was on track to pay back dollar bond holders by May. It said the NCDs […]
Yes Bank, which holds around 26% of Dish TV India, accused the direct-to-home satellite provider of resorting to what it called dilatory tactics in seeking shareholder approval for its proposal to reorganize the company’s board of directors. As such, said Yes Bank, it was calling for an extraordinary general meeting under the relevant laws of […]
Indiabulls Housing Finance said its offer of non-convertible debentures — a kind of fixed deposit in the company — has generated total retail collection of Rs 807.8 cr. Under the issue, the company was targeting to raise up to Rs 1,000 cr, including a ‘greenshoe’ option of Rs 800 cr that depended on demand. The […]
HDFC, one of India’s oldest housing finance companies, said it has slashed the interest rate on its home loans to 6.7% for those with qualifying credit scores. The rate of 6.7% is one of the lowest interest rates charged by any bank or housing finance companies in India at present. The closest competition is with […]
Brickwork Ratings, a credit rating agency that gives advice on the ability of companies to service their debt, has hailed the slew of measures announced by the government yesterday to give relief to the telecom sector, but added they’re not enough to save the industry. FLIP FLOP The most import measure announced yesterday was a […]
With youngsters increasingly preferring non-traditional careers and gigs for their livelihoods, several financial services startups have also sprung up to target these customers who may not qualify for traditional banking services. In this direction, FPL Technologies, a two-year-old, Pune-based credit scoring company, announced that it has launched a free credit card targeting the youth, with […]
ICICI Bank’s Pockets wallet has become the first financial institution in India to be permitted to offer UPI IDs in its own name and make transactions directly without routing it via a bank account. So far, UPI IDs were reserved only for those who have an account with any recognized Indian bank, including co-operative banks. […]
Fitch Ratings, one of the top two credit rating agencies, said it expects the economic impact of the second wave of COVID-19 in India to be less severe than what was seen in the first wave last year. “We expect the shock to economic activity from the latest wave of the pandemic in India to […]
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel said US-based payments processor Mastercard will invest $100 mln (Rs 730 cr) into its Africa mobile payments business. The announcement comes two weeks after TPG Group invested $200 mn in Airtel Money Africa. The latest agreement values Airtel Africa’s mobile money business at $2.65bn on a cash and debt free basis, […]
Maruti Suzuki has said that it will go for a round of price increases next month (April), its second in four months. The company had increased prices of its cars and utility vehicles on Jan 18 this year, citing rising commodity costs. “Over the past year the cost of company’s vehicles has been impacted adversely […]
Contrary to expectations, the COVID-19 pandemic has negatively impacted the growth of digital payments in India. Against a growth of 46% in the value of digital payments last year, this year, digital payments growth is on track to be around 11.5%. In terms of actual numbers, with 20 days remaining in the year, the total […]
Telecom operator Bharti Airtel has raised $1.25 billion (Rs 9,050 cr) via dollar-denominated bonds from a clutch of international investors, tying up funds ahead of impending auctions of 5G spectrum. The debt was raised at considerably low interest rates, though they carry the risk of the US currency appreciating in value against the Indian rupee. […]
Kochouseph Chittilappilly, the founder of V-Guard industries, said he has set up a company called K Chittilappilly Capital Pvt Ltd with the purpose of providing venture funding to entrepreneurs. In a letter to V-Guard industries, Chittalappilly — who founded V-Guard Industries as a voltage stabilizer maker four decades ago — said the new NBFC is […]
Chennai-based Equitas Small Finance Bank, which listed on stock exchanges earlier this month, unveiled a new type of zero-balance savings bank account with a whopping 7% interest rate. At present, almost no bank offers an interest rate of 7% on savings bank deposits, and many banks offer less than 7% even for fixed deposits. However, […]
Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India seem to be bringing down the number of 2,000 rupee notes in circulation, even though no decision has been taken to phase them out. 2,000-rupee notes were introduced soon after the demonetization of 1,000-rupee notes in late 2016. Their introduction came for heavy criticism and was […]
