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PENSION PLANS


`We must be included in Govt-backed pension plan' — Pvt insurers ask IRDA to intervene
TAKEN aback by the Government's decision to arm the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) with an assured nine per cent return under the proposed Government-sponsored pension scheme, a group of private insurance players has approached the ... More

FOREX


  • Re stable; gilts recover

    HOUSING FINANCE


    Corpn Bank clears 550 home loans
    HYDERABAD: Corporation Bank has announced that it has sanctioned an amount of Rs 22 crore towards housing loans by clearing the applications of 550 customers on the spot at the two-day home loan fair here on Sunday. In a press release ... More

    LIFE INSURANCE


    Health insurance scheme will be a success: Sushma
    THE Union Minister for Medical, Health and Parliamentary Affairs, Ms Sushma Swaraj, has expressed confidence that the new health insurance scheme announced by the Finance Minister in his Budget would "do very well". The Minister told ... More

    HUMAN RESOURCES


    Banks in race to pick IIM students
    Private and foreign banks are increasingly lining up at the campuses, rolling out mouth-watering placement offers for students. More

    PUBLIC SECTOR BANKS


    `Banks are stronger after trimming flab'
    LOWER operating expenses is the key driver of the banking sector's improved profitability in recent times, according to a Crisil study. "The banking sector is now reaping the benefits of rationalising its employee costs and undertaking other ... More

    Canara Bank's scheme for SSIs
    CANARA Bank has launched a new scheme for small-scale industries (SSIs) banking with it. The bank will sanction a stand-by credit up to Rs 5 lakh to SSIs at the time of regular sanction of working capital. However, the bank did not detail ... More

  • Andhra Bank to open more TFCs

    FOREIGN BANKS


    Commercial Bank of Ceylon hires Indian consultant
    COMMERCIAL Bank of Ceylon (CBC), an 81-year-old Lankan outfit, recently hired The Redwood Edge, a Pune-based consultancy, to run programmes for both its executives and client organisations. CBC is among Sri Lanka's frontline banks, said Mr ... More

    FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS


    Fast money? Just buy FI bonds
    BRING an FI bond, take home cash. This seems to be the punchline for what has lately emerged as a new business for some of Kolkata's financial intermediaries, including a few small players on the local stock exchange. An unorganised market is ... More

    TRADE & LABOUR UNIONS


    Insurance staff fear private takeover
    EMPLOYEES of the four general insurance companies (GICs) in Kerala are apprehensive of a takeover of their institutions by the private sector insurance majors now active in the State. "The latest changes that are taking place in these public ... More

  • Syndicate Bank staff threaten stir
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