Private sector lenders might have substantially under-reported their bad loans, the ensuing provisions and their impact on net profit in FY16, disclosures mandated by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) revealed. YES Bank, for instance, on Friday said it had under-reported gross non-performing assets (NPAs) to the tune of `4,177 crore in FY16. According to its FY17 annual report, while the bank had reported gross NPAs of Rs 749 crore in FY16, the RBI supervision found the gross NPAs to be at `4,926 crore in the same period.

It was least expected that March quarter (Q4) results of ICICI Bank will create such a huge impact on its stock price. The bundled effect of net profit trebling, loan growth looking positive, and more importantly, the optimistic management commentary on gradual increase in bad loan additions has helped ICICI Bank stock gain over 12 per cent since last Wednesday. Currently trading at Rs 303, the stock is near its 52-week high. Part of the surge can also be attributed to reports that the stock could see higher weightage in a few key indices which are due for routine re-adjustment, leading to some buying by fund managers.

NEW DELHI: The ICICI Group on Tuesday said it has made 100 villages digitally-enabled in 2017 while planning to transform another 500 by the year-end.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while inaugurating the 100 ICICI digital villages here said: "The ICICI initiative should be followed by other banks in rural areas."

Shares of Karnataka Bank slumped nearly 3 per cent today after top private lender ICICI Bank clarified that almost all shares held by it in the company were on behalf of equity broker clients as security. The clarification came a day after Karnataka Bank saw its shares soar by nearly 9 per cent yesterday following its latest shareholding data showing ICICI Bank holding over 1 per cent stake in the company.

MUMBAI: ICICI Bank and Axis Bank sold Rs.1,800 crore of loans to paper maker Ballarpur Industries to Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Company, said two people familiar with the matter. Bankers said this is possibly the first instance of a potential bad loan being sold off.

It’s also the first time that loans have been sold to an asset reconstruction firm at book value without a haircut, said the people cited above.

Recognising the popularity of Truecaller, an application that identifies mobile numbers - ICICI Bank has partnered the Swedish communication company behind the app to enable in-app payments using the Unified Payments Interface.

According to ICICI Bank, Truecaller is the third-most used app in India and the new partnership will allow millions of users of the app in the country to instantly create a UPI id, send money to any UPI id or a mobile number registered with the BHIM app. It will also enable users to recharge their mobile number from within the Truecaller app itself.

It appears that the investment case for mid-sized banks and non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) is gaining more momentum. Leading foreign brokerage, Morgan Stanley, in a report captioned 'Downgrading the Large Banks; Prefer the Smaller Lenders', flagged off that earnings for the financial stocks may remain weak in FY18 and FY19.

"Return on equity for the sector will struggle and there will be very material divergence in growth of book value per share, which will continue to create divergent stock price performance," the report highlights. What’s interesting is that the investment downgrade undertaken by the brokerage on India’s three largest private banks follows a different rationale in each case.

Calcutta, March 13: The Tea Board has appointed ICICI Bank as the new settlement banker for holding pan-India auctions after a search for nearly four months.

"We have selected ICICI Bank as the settlement banker for the e-auctions from a total of five bankers and it is currently working with NSE.IT to align the software," Santosh Sarangi, chairman of the Tea Board, told The Telegraph.

ICICI Bank topped the list of banks that witnessed most number of frauds during April-December period of 2016 with state-owned SBI taking the second spot, RBI data said.

During the first nine months of the current fiscal, as many as 455 fraud cases involving Rs 1 lakh and above were detected in ICICI Bank, closely followed by SBI (429), Standard Chartered (244) and HDFC Bank (237).

The government on Monday asked State Bank of India (SBI) to reconsider its decision to levy penalty on non-maintenance of minimum balance, which the bank plans to hike manifold from April 1 impacting over 310 million savings bank account holders.

SBI, according to a source, has also been asked to reconsider charges it proposes to levy on cash transactions and ATM withdrawals over specified limits.

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