ICICI Bank was up 3% to Rs 287 on BSE in early morning trade after the banks’ outstanding watch list for the quarter ended September 30, 2016 (Q2FY17) stood at Rs 32,490 crore down from Rs 44,000 crore at the start of the financial year.

“The bank expects repayments from the proceeds of two large asset sales (Jaiprakash group’s sale of cement plants and Essar group’s sale of oil refinery to Rosneft) to bring down the size of the watch list in six to nine months”, Chanda Kochhar, managing director and chief executive said.

MUMBAI: The country’s largest private sector lender ICICI Bank has ignited a home loan rate war by slashing interest rates by 15 bps. Woman borrowers will now be able to avail loans at 9.15% while other borrowers will have to pay interest rate of 9.20%. The revised rates are applicable for home loans up to Rs 75 lakh. On October 28, ICICI Bank has cut its MCLR by 10 bps bringing its one year MCLR down to 8.95%.

ICICI Bank has decided to cut its MCLR by 10 basis points (bps) for loans with tenor of one year to 8.95 per cent. The new rate will be effective from November 1.

This is an outcome of monthly review and not an out-of-turn action. The private-sector lender has reduced MCLR for one-year loans by 25 bps since April. MCLR in April was 9.20 bps for one-year loan.

Within days of Essar Group signing a mega $12.9-billion asset sale in its oil business, three top lenders — ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and StanChart — have got back an estimated $2.5 billion as part of the first payment for their debt exposure to the Ruias-led conglomerate.

The two Indian lenders — which together had an exposure of $1.5 billion — will get back nearly half of their money or about $770 million in cash while further $750 million of debt will get transferred to Rosneft-led consortium and Essar's ports and other businesses, according to the terms agreed upon by them.

ICICI Bank has surged nearly 6% to Rs 256 on the BSE in intra-day trade after the Ruias of the Essar group on Saturday signed a binding agreement with Russia’s Rosneft, United Capital Partners and Trafigura Group Pte. to sell 98% in its most priced asset, the 20 million tonnes per annum Vadinar refinery and Vadinar port in Gujarat.

According to Business Standard report, the proceeds of the sale will be used to repay loans of both foreign and local lenders, which was around Rs 88,000 crore, Ruia said.

Mumbai: ICICI Bank Ltd will continue to bring back capital from its overseas subsidiaries as its international business stagnates, a top executive has said.

According to N.S. Kannan, an executive director at India’s second largest private sector lender, business at its wholly-owned subsidiaries has not been growing because Indian companies are not enthusiastically going abroad and seeking to acquire capacities. This means they don’t require much funding from the bank’s international offices.

New York: India’s top women bankers, State Bank of India chief Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI Bank head Chanda Kochhar and Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma, are among the 50 most powerful women based outside the US, according to a list by Fortune which is topped by Banco Santander’s boss Ana Botín.

Bhattacharya, 60, is ranked second on the list, while Kochhar comes in on the fifth spot and Sharma on the 19th position in the Fortune’s ‘50 Most Powerful Women International’ list, which has ranked the women based outside the US.

MUMBAI: Set to dilute 12 per cent stake in ICICI Prudential Life Insurance through an IPO, country's biggest private sector lender ICICI Bank has said it will offload another 6 per cent in the insurance arm over the next three years.

ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, the country's first insurer to launch a public offer, has fixed IPO price band at Rs 300-334 per equity share to raise around Rs 6,000 crore.

The country’s largest private lender ICICI Bank here on Thursday became the first bank in India to deploy ‘software robots, that emulate human action, in its over 200 business processes, thereby reducing the response time to customers by up to 60 per cent.

“The bank is the first in the country and among few, globally, to deploy ‘software robotics’ that emulates human actions to automate and perform repetitive, high volume and time consuming business tasks cutting across multiple applications,” ICICI Bank said.

Recent government initiatives to ease the construction sector's woes have come at a time when the sector's growth has slumped to 1.5 per cent in the first quarter of this financial year from 5.6 per cent a year before. Besides reducing the burden of companies, struggling with high debt, these steps are expected to reduce the problem of bad loans.

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