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Friday, November 14, 2008
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MONEY & BANKING FINANCIAL MARKETS: Panel calls for repo in corporate bonds To make them more liquid and to boost secondary market. New Delhi, Nov. 13 Corporate bonds should be made repo-able. This has been recommended by the Expert Panel on Financial Stability Assessment and Stress Testing that has assisted the ... RBI & OTHER CENTRAL BANKS: PM seeks strengthening of IMF, World Bank To ensure impact of crisis is minimal on developing world. New Delhi, Nov. 13 The Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, on Thursday called for strengthening bodies like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank as also regional banks and ... FOREX: Real effective exchange rate of rupee declines Closer to levels that obtained in 2000-01. Bangalore, Nov. 13 The rupee’s sharp depreciation against the dollar since the beginning of this year has begun reflecting in the Real Effective Exchange Rates ... FINANCIAL MARKETS: Fall in dollar assets only part of the story Chennai, Nov. 13 Measured in dollar terms, India’s foreign currency assets declined by a hefty $38.6 billion between September 26 and October 31, 2008; 14 percentage points in a ... PENSION PLANS: Pension option: Actuaries’ report lifts staff hopes Chennai, Nov. 13 About 2.6 lakh employees of public sector banks are likely to get a second chance to opt for pension instead of a lumpsum payment at the end of the service. This likelihood emerges from the expenditure estimates submitted by ... INTERVIEW: ‘High cost of funds will hurt infrastructure projects’ Chennai, Nov. 13 Infrastructure Development Finance Company Ltd, as a specialised funding agency for the infrastructure sector, has a pulse of the sector. There is a definite slowdown in the infrastructure sector and companies are ... INSIGHT: Bank on operational efficiency During the past few years, banks and NBFCs have been among the fastest growing sectors in the country. However, under the current economic scenario, financial services companies that rapidly expanded operations and increased fixed costs ... CREDIT MARKET: Govt bid to boost bank lending to food processing Allocates Rs 1,000 crore to Nabard. Mumbai, Nov 13 In a bid to bail out the food processing industry from the current financial crisis, the Government has allocated Rs 1,000 crore to the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural ... HOUSING FINANCE: CIBIL working on home loan repository Mumbai, Nov. 13 Credit Information Bureau (India) Ltd proposes to come out with a home loan repository. This mortgage repository will have information on individual home loan payment ... NBFCS: ‘NBFCs may shift to banking lines’ Mumbai, Nov. 13 With the mutual fund industry reeling under pressures of redemption, the non-banking finance companies (NBFC) would part-replace the borrowings from the fund houses with banking lines over the short to medium term, said ... INTEREST RATES: ‘Now, RBI gets headroom for more rate cuts’ Mumbai, Nov. 13 Single digit inflation after a period of five months may provide fresh impetus to the Reserve Bank of India to cut rates further. In fact, now it is not only feasible for the central bank to cut rates, but even desirable, ... GENERAL INSURANCE: NIC sweetens universal policy ... EVENTS: Seminar on fiscal crisis The Justice K.S. Hegde Institute of Management at Nitte in Udupi district will conduct a seminar on ‘Strategies for surviving the global meltdown’ on November ... LIFE INSURANCE: Aviva Life ties up with Anagram Mumbai, Nov. 13 Aviva Life Insurance has entered into a tie-up with Anagram Stockbroking Ltd for selling life insurance ... Comments & Letters to the Editor to: bleditor@thehindu.co.in Subscribe to: Business Line |
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