P. Vamsee Krishna, 37 years, stays with his homemaker wife and two children, aged 10 and eight, in his own house, in Hyderabad. He is a software engineer, who brings in a salary of Rs 1.05 lakh a month. Besides his own house, for which he has taken a home loan and a top-up loan, he also has a plot …
On-tap licensing is a time-efficient feature that will allow parties to obtain the licence on-demand basis and eligible parties won’t have to wait. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will issue draft guidelines for ‘on-tap’ licensing of Small Finance Banks (SFB) by the end of August 2019 with a view to enhance supply of credit to small borrowers and encourage …
Dear Madam Finance Minister, Welcome to the exciting world of finance that you have just taken charge of. I have covered this space as a beat reporter for 25 years and so I am taking the liberty to give a glimpse of this sector as I see it. First, my biases: I have a gender bias and I am truly …
Sridhar V., Partner with Grant Thornton India said slowdown across the industry has impacted passenger car sales coupled with the impasse due to election, stress on financing and high base numbers. Slowdown across the industry has impacted passenger car sales coupled with the impasse due to election (Representational Image) New Delhi/Mumbai: Base effect, along with high finance cost and liquidity constraints …
NEW DELHI: The next wave of bank consolidation is planned during the October-December quarter of the current fiscal with the Finance Ministry starting to seek information from PSBs on possible targets for amalgamation/mergers and acquisitions with justification on how such an initiative will synergise operations and strengthen the bank. Government sources said that heads of all public sector banks (PSBs) …
The finance ministry is reworking strategic sale procedure to ensure outright sale of CPSEs within 4 months of issuance of documents to potential investors, a move aimed at ensuring speedier conclusion of the entire process, an official said. However, for CPSEs like Air India, which are relatively bigger in size, the timeline for completion of strategic sale is likely to be fixed at …
NEW DELHI: The Nifty Financial Services index was up with most of its components trading with gains in Tuesday’s afternoon session. Shares of Indiabulls Housing Finance (up 5.69 per cent), Shriram Transport Finance Company (up 4.20 per cent), Cholamandalam Investment & Finance Company (up 3.75 per cent) and Indiabulls Ventures (up 3.51 per cent) were the top gainers in the …
Diversification is the cornerstone of sound investment management, and yet diversity remains largely absent from the investment industry. Women investment professionals hold a mere 11% of C-suite positions according to the CFA Institute Gender Diversity in Investment Management study. In most financial firms, women are a minority of employees and that’s bad for customers because women make excellent investors. Despite diversity making …
NEW DELHI: Chief economic adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian has said there is a need to closely monitor the asset-liability mismatch in the financial sector and called for an improvement in the disclosure framework for defaults, as embattled non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) face a liquidity squeeze and rating downgrades. In a wide-ranging interaction at the ET office, Subramanian termed the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code …
Aye Finance, a CapitalG-backed fintech lender to the MSMEs said on Tuesday that it had reached ₹1,000 crore Asset Under Management (AUM) milestone within five years of inception. CapitalG, earlier known as Google Capital, is the late-stage growth venture capital fund that helps companies grow faster with the support of Google’s resources. Started in 2014, the lender has disbursed ₹1,700 crore to …