Bank of Maharashtra to auction Rs 500-crore NPAs in Sept

Last Updated: Wednesday, August 19, 2015, 18:13

State-owned Bank of Maharashtra is looking to sell stressed assets worth Rs 500 crore in an auction in September.

Capital injection key to Basel-III transition of PSBs: Ind-Ra

Last Updated: Friday, August 14, 2015, 21:30

Indian banks may need up to Rs 1 trillion over and above their Basel-III capital requirements to manage the concentration risks arising out of their exposure to highly levered, large stressed corporates, India Ratings and Research (Ind-Ra) said Friday.

Banks ask RBI to reduce asset risk weights to global levels

Last Updated: Thursday, August 13, 2015, 19:56

Lenders have asked the Reserve Bank to reduce the risk weights on assets while allocating capital down to being at par with the global level, a top banker said Thursday.

India seeks $4 bn spending boost, almost half for state banks

Last Updated: Friday, July 31, 2015, 16:25

State lenders account for more than 70 percent of all outstanding bank loans, and they are in need of support to meet Basel III regulatory requirements.

State-owned banks will need additional capital to meet adequacy norms: RBI

Last Updated: Friday, June 26, 2015, 14:54

Reserve Bank Deputy Governor R Gandhi on Friday said state-owned banks are "adequately" capitalised at present but would need additional money to comply with global capital adequacy norms in the future.

India to inject about $3 billion this fiscal year in state-owned banks: Report

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 23, 2015, 13:41

The intended injection into state banks is significantly higher than the estimate of Rs 79.4 billion (USD 1.25 billion) given in the government`s budget for this fiscal year.

Standards adopted by RBI compliant with Basel standards: Report

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 16, 2015, 22:48

The standards adopted by the Reserve Bank with regard to risk-based capital requirements are 'compliant' with minimum Basel capital standards, the central bank said on Tuesday.

Basel panel says Indian banks ''largely compliant'' on liquidity standards: RBI

Last Updated: Tuesday, June 16, 2015, 21:11

A Basel committee has assessed Indian banks` liquidity coverage ratio requirements as `largely compliant` with the minimum prescribed standards, the Reserve Bank of India said in a circular on Tuesday.

India's banking norms 'rigorous' than Basel framework: Panel

Last Updated: Monday, June 15, 2015, 21:19

India's banking norms in certain aspects are more rigorous than what has been prescribed under the Basel III framework for capital adequacy, says a report.

RBI issues draft Basel III guidelines on liquidity standards

Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2015, 22:07

The Reserve Bank on Thursday released the draft guidelines on the net stable funding ratio (NSFR) under Basel III framework on liquidity standards for banks and sought comments from all stakeholders by June 26.

New rules on global banks' interest-rate risks face delays: Sources

Last Updated: Friday, April 3, 2015, 22:08

Efforts to protect the world`s banks from interest-rate risks are bogged down, with an agreement on new rules likely to be delayed by at least several months, people involved in the discussions said.