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Friday, February 01, 2002
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Rupee range-bound; securities decline
MUMBAI: THE rupee closed almost unchanged on Thursday from the previous level of 48.5250/53 against the dollar in a range-bound forex market. It opened weaker at 48.54/56 and slipped to an intra-day low of 48.59, before recovering to end at ... More

HOUSING FINANCE


Dhanalakshmi Bank home loan scheme
KOCHI: Dhanalakshmi Bank has launched a home loan scheme — Dhanam platinum jubilee home loan advantage. The loan amount, fixed at Rs 20 lakh for the urban/metro centres and Rs 10 lakh in other areas, is tailored to extend ready ... More

LIFE INSURANCE


Insure, be secure is the tinsel town motto
TINSEL town is lending glamour to the staid life insurance business. Quite a few of its stars are either insuring themselves for large sums, or as actor Naseerudin Shah did recently, choosing to endorse insurance products. Southern superstar ... More

GENERAL INSURANCE


IFFCO-Tokio to tie up with KSFC
IFFCO-TOKIO Marine Insurance Company plans to tie up with the State-owned finance facilitator, Karnataka State Finance Corporation (KSFC), to provide risk cover to industrial enterprises in the State. This is likely to be the first such tie-up ... More

PRIVATE BANKS


IndusInd Bank to give treasury more leeway
INDUSIND Bank proposes to give its treasury department more operational freedom so that the full profit-earning potential of the operations is realised, the Chairman, Mr Bhaskar Ghose, told Business Line on Thursday. In the first nine ... More

Karnataka Bank net up 112 pc
MANGALORE: Karnataka Bank has registered a 112.77 per cent increase in net profit for the first nine months of the current fiscal at Rs 75.32 crore as against Rs 35.40 crore for the corresponding period of the previous year. The ... More

PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS


Vijaya Bank mulls IPO for housing arm
VIJAYA Bank is likely to take its fledgling housing finance subsidiary, Vijaya Bank Housing Finance Ltd, to an initial public offer in its bid to part-divest its stake in the firm, the Chairman, Mr S. Gopalakrishnan, has said. However, "we have ... More

Union Bank net spurts 77 pc
MUMBAI: Union Bank of India has reported a 77.4 per cent rise in net profit at Rs 99 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2001, as compared to Rs 55.80 crore in the corresponding quarter in the previous year. For the nine ... More

IOB net grows 12 pc to Rs 45 cr
CHENNAI: Indian Overseas Bank has reported a net profit of Rs 45.56 crore in the quarter ended December 2001, as against Rs 40.75 crore in the corresponding quarter of last year — an increase of 11.8 per cent. It made a net ... More

FOREIGN BANKS


Deutsche Bank set to launch AMC
DEUTSCHE Bank is all set to flag off an asset management venture in India. Armed with an authorisation from the securities regulator, which came a few weeks ago, the bank is today looking at capitalising its mutual fund business. It is also ... More

FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS


Bajaj Auto not keen on selling ICICI stake
BAJAJ Auto (BAL), which holds a sizable equity stake in ICICI Ltd, has not officially informed the financial institution of any intent to dilute its shareholding. BAL, which picked up a five per cent equity stake in ICICI a couple of years ago, ... More

Canbank Factors turnover rises
BANGALORE: Canbank Factors Ltd, a subsdiary of Canara Bank, has improved its net profits by 15.68 per cent to Rs 6.27 crore for the first nine months of the current financial year. During the corresponding period of last year, the ... More

ALLIANCES & JOINT VENTURES


ICICI Bank, MasterCard join hands
ICICI Bank and MasterCard International on Thursday jointly launched the `ICICI Bank MasterCard' credit cards in India. With this, the bank will launch a range of MasterCard credit card programmes, including the Gold and Standard cards. The ... More
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