U.S. dollar sank from a one-week top against a basket of major peers on Tuesday, as traders weighed the odds of a less aggressive Federal Reserve at Wednesday’s widely watched monetary policy meeting The risk-sensitive Australian and New Zealand dollars rose from one-week lows amid a broad lift in market sentiment, but the Aussie trailed […]
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Canara Bank plans to invest Rs 1,000 crore in digital banking infrastructure
Canara Bank, a public sector lender, wants to invest Rs 1,000 crore in a digital banking ecosystem, including a super-app, over the next three years. Next month, the Bengaluru-based bank will reveal its super app (which has yet to be named). According to K Satyanarayana Raju, managing director of Canara Bank, this would entail upgrading […]
RBI DG Rabi Sankar asks for complete ban on cryptocurrencies in India
Days after the Union Budget proposed taxing cryptocurrencies, which gave rise to apprehensions of legitimising them, an Reserve Bank of India (RBI) official has asked for a complete ban on such virtual currencies citing threat to macroeconomic stability. In a speech to bankers on Monday, RBI deputy governor T Rabi Sankar demolished all the arguments for allowing cryptocurrencies in India as […]
SBI collects Rs 300 cr from zero balance accounts in 5 years: Study
By Administrator_India Capital Sands Several banks, including State Bank of India (SBI), have been imposing excessive charges on certain services provided to poor persons having zero-balance or Basic Savings Bank Deposit Accounts (BSBDA), a study by the IIT-Bombay has revealed. The study observed that the SBI’s decision to levy a charge of Rs 17.70 for […]