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The Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (Assocham) has asked the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to inject enough liquidity in to the market through the routes of cash reserve ratio (CRR) and repo rate. The chamber has requested the apex body to reduce the CRR and repo rate by one perc...Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:57:45 +0530
HDFC Bank on September 30th launched its financial inclusion programme-‘Project Jharkhand' in Ranchi under the aegis of the Reserve Bank of India.Under this project, HDFC has kick started the country's first Common Service Centre (CSC) with banking services in the state. The bank plans to inst...Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:06:17 +0530
The department of telecommunication (DoT) is planning to approach the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) for further guidelines on mobile banking. The department seeks this consultation to provide complete mobile banking services to the customers.Although RBI has recently announced certain guidelines, only...Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:08:21 +0530
Government owned, Corporation Bank has decided to spread its wings overseas by opening a Representative Office in Dubai on September 22nd, 2008. This is the first branch of the bank outside India.Chairman and Managing Director of Corporation Bank, B. Sambamurthy, H.E Saeed Abdullah Al-Hamiz of Centr...Tue, 23 Sep 2008 10:07:36 +0530
State-owned lender, Punjab National Bank (PNB) has decided to initiate a new technology driven model of service delivery in the state of Orissa. The bank will launch ‘smart card' or ‘hand held device' to provide this service across the state. The state government is going to help the ban...Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:59:48 +0530
The Mauritius based IndusInd International Holdings Ltd (IIHL) announced in its Annual General Meeting (AGM) that its subsidiary IndusInd Bank, which operates 148 branches in India, will expand its financial services in strategic markets, including the Middle East, with significant NRI and Indian-or...Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:10:13 +0530
All of us are very well aware of the pesky calls that one receives from banks and telecom services, providing us with information about products which we never want to buy. If that is irritating, then how irritating would a call from a recovery agent be? Gone is the “Yes, sir” or “...Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:34:52 +0530
Bapu is coming to India’s rescue once again. And this time he is not alone. He has the support of Sanjay Dutt and SRK. India’s beloved Munnabhai and Kabir Khan are about to become real life teachers for 1.5 lakh debt recovery agents who would be going to school. This new school which has...Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:24:21 +0530
The bad news in the car segment doesn’t seem to end. If the rising oil prices and hike in car prices wasn’t enough, the customers would now have to deal with yet another hike in the auto loans. Following the RBI’s lead in increasing their lending rates, the banks and top financial...Fri, 27 Jun 2008 10:48:40 +0530
If insiders are to be believed, then the decision taken by the RBI on Tuesday will adversely affect the auto loans industry. The dual hike in key rates as announced by the RBI, will hike the auto loans by a minimum of 5000 Rs. a month, on a car loan of Rs 3 lakh for a period of three years. Most of...