A 19 October, 2011 circular of the National Housing Bank says no penalty or fee for prepayment of home loans can be charged, provided the ...
10:16 PM, May 17, 2013
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India is probing the Cobrapost sting operation on alleged money laundering by top banks. The RBI report has revealed major irregularities in top banks. The report shows string of violations on several counts. Sources say the RBI report reveals dummy PANs, unknown NRO IDs, unauthorised gold sale, rampant non-compliance of KYC norms and irregular staff trips. Sources say the RBI probe into ICICI Bank...
01:14 PM, May 13, 2013
New Delhi: Mortgage major HDFC on Wednesday said consolidated net profit increased by 17.2 per cent to Rs 2,083.12 crore for the quarter ended on March 31, 2013. Its consolidated net profit during the same quarter (January-March) a year ago stood at Rs 1,776.74 crore. Total income during the last quarter of 2012-13 increased to Rs 11,042.88 crore from Rs 9,278.11 crore in the same period of the previous fiscal,...
04:47 PM, May 08, 2013
Mumbai: HDFC Bank Ltd, India's No.3 lender by loan value, met forecasts with a 30 per cent rise in quarterly profit on Tuesday led by higher loan growth, fee income and stable asset quality. Mumbai-based HDFC Bank, which has posted profit growth of more than 30 per cent every year for the last decade, said its net profit rose to Rs 18.9 billion in the quarter ended in March from...
03:50 PM, Apr 23, 2013
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank may cut the benchmark short-term lending rate by about 0.25 per cent in its annual monetary policy in May in the backdrop of declining inflation and the urgency to promote growth, say economists. "Right now conditions should enable the RBI to cut repo rate. We expect a cut of 25 basis points (or 0.25 per cent) in its policy in May and may be by...
11:30 AM, Apr 21, 2013
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor KC Chakrabarty has given a clean chit to private banks named in the Cobrapost expose on money laundering. The Central bank said there was no systemic issue involved in the Cobrapost allegations. ...
08:30 PM, Mar 21, 2013
In more trouble for the banks that were indicted in a recent Cobrapost expose, which caught some of the employees of HDFC, ICICI and Axis banks offering money laundering services, sources now say that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has sent its teams to those branches of the banks for an audit. The results of the audit is expected in two to four weeks. ...
04:26 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Private banks are in damage control mode after their employees were shown aiding money laundering in a sting operation by online magazine Cobrapost. While ICICI Bank has suspended 18 employees pending an investigation, HDFC Bank says it has ordered a probe by independent agencies on the expose. ...
03:49 PM, Mar 16, 2013
After CNN-IBN accessed a confidential government investigation report which highlighted how several private banks were involved in conversion of black money into white, Kotak Mahindra Bank has refuted all the allegations. "We wish to clarify that no such transactions by the alleged person have been routed via Kotak Mahindra Bank," said the Kotak Mahindra group spokesperson on Friday evening. ...
08:54 PM, Mar 15, 2013
A sting operation conducted by online magazine Cobrapost across various branches of private banks has revealed how bank employees are accepting black money from customers to convert them into white money. Cobrapost Editor Aniruddha Bahal has insisted that leading private banks like HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank and Axis Bank are involved in this. He joined IBNLive readers for an interaction on the issue. ...
05:23 PM, Mar 15, 2013
A confidential government investigation report highlighting how several private banks were involved in conversion of black money into white has been accessed by CNN-IBN. ...
01:27 PM, Mar 15, 2013
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) of the Finance Ministry will probe an alleged sting operation conducted by an online portal claiming that the country's three large private banks indulged in money laundering both within and outside India. The FIU will also provide information in this regard to the Income Tax department which has already begun a probe into the contents of the sting operation, a senior I-T official said on...
11:39 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A Cobrapost expose on Thursday revealed how employees at some private banks were brazenly carrying out money laundering operations. ...
11:27 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Top private sector lenders ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank and Axis Bank said they were investigating allegations of widespread money laundering practices at their branches. The shares of the banks fell briefly on Thursday after the independent investigative journalist, Aniruddha Bahal, made the accusations in a news conference televised by a local TV station in the morning. ...
10:35 PM, Mar 14, 2013
Every rule laid down by the Reserve Bank of India has a possible loophole - that's what the bankers exposed by the Cobrapost sting claimed. ...
10:09 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A sting operation conducted by Cobrapost across various branches of private financial institutions, including HDFC, ICICI and Axis banks showed how bank employees were helping customers convert black money into white. ...
08:36 PM, Mar 14, 2013
A sting operation by Cobrapost revealed how employees at some private banks were involved in money laundering operations. ...
07:01 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Thursday ordered a probe into the expose done by online magazine Cobrapost that revealed employees of private banks involved in money laundering operations. The sting operation conducted across various branches of private financial institutions like HDFC, ICICI and Axis banks revealed how their employees were accepting black money from customers to convert them into white money. Cobrapost claims that the nationwide operation...
06:50 PM, Mar 14, 2013
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) suspects some banks are involved in KYC violations, sources said. The RBI has sent showcause notice to one bank and a probe is on in the NCR region. ...
03:06 PM, Mar 14, 2013
ICICI Bank has in a quick response to money laundering allegations in a Cobrapost sting operation said that the bank launched an investigation into the matter and that a committee will submit its report in two weeks on the issue. ...
11:00 AM, Mar 14, 2013
