Privatising India’s dozen public sector banks (PSBs) has been an unkept promise. Time and again, both the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have flashed this as the top reform agenda. But beyond that, nothing happened. What lacked was sheer political will. PSBs are dominated by heavily politicised employee trade unions. […]

Local financial institutions will reopen some of their branches to the public on Monday (July 4) under certain guidelines, the Monetary Authority of Macau (AMCM) indicated after coordinating with the Macau Association of Banks and the Macau Insurers Association. Banks’ operating hours will be adjusted to between 10am. and 4pm. All bank branches have been

Delhi Police busted an interstate gang of hi-tech fraudsters and arrested four persons who allegedly used to cheat gullible people on the pretext of facilitating online loans. According to Delhi Police, the gang used to deal in cryptocurrency. They learn tactics from YouTube and get in touch with Chinese nationals on telegram. The accused have

The Indian government did not apply the law when the country’s central bank breached the 2020 inflation target, documents accessed by The Reporters’ Collective (TRC) and Al Jazeera through the Right to Information Act show. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI), under Governor Shaktikanta Das, was unable to keep inflation within the legally mandated limit

New Delhi, Apr 6 (PTI) Three men were arrested in the national capital for allegedly cheating people on the pretext of increasing their credit cards limit, police said on Wednesday. Two laptops, 20 mobile phones, one wi-fi router, 45 SIM cards and six diaries have been recovered from the accused, the police said. The accused

Three persons were arrested for allegedly running a fake call centre that used to cheat people on the pretext of increasing the limit of their credit cards, an official said on Wednesday. The accused cyber fraudsters were identified as Prateek (25), Kuldeep (26) and Sourav (27) Deputy Commissioner of Police (southeast) Esha Pandey said a

The banking system has seen a stable phase of business in the March quarter of FY22, but elevated operating costs may put a lid on operating profit growth, according to analysts tracking the sector. They see pre-provisioning operating profits for banks growing in the range of 6% to 7% during Q4FY22, even as net profit

West Bengal government has directed banks to expedite the process of sanctioning and distributing loans under the state’s student credit card scheme. In a meeting between the finance department and the State Level Bankers’ Committee, chief minister Mamata Banerjee’s principal chief advisor Amit Mitra asked lenders why there were “at least 16,000 provisionally sanctioned cases