The shares of Yes Bank plunged over 6% on Friday even after the company put off its plans to raise nearly $1 billion through QIP.

YES Bank had launched a QIP issue to raise $1 billion but deferred it soon after as its shares tanked over 5% on Thursday. The Bank said that a misintepretation of the new QIP guidelines led to a massive sell-off of its shares.

YES Bank flagged off a Qualified Institutional Placement issue of new shares, to raise up to $1 billion (Rs 6,600 crore), with the aim of supporting its growth for the next three years.

The price band for the shares, to be placed with institutional investors, is Rs 1,350-1,410 each. The face value of each share is Rs 10.

Mumbai: Private sector lender Yes Bank Ltd is gearing up to make a debut in the offshore bond market with a five-year dollar bond. The bank is looking to raise $300-500 million before March 2017 to avail cheaper funding for its offshore lending branch at GIFT City in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, said two people from the bank.

The offshore branch is meant to function as a foreign branch of the domestic bank and lend in foreign currency. GIFT City is India’s first international finance centre.

Private sector lender YES Bank became the latest entrant in the credit card space on Tuesday. Going ahead, the lender has planned an aggressive push as it aims to capture a market share of 17-18 per cent in the next five years.

“Several foreign banks have not been aggressive in the credit card space and that will also help us to increase our market share. In the next five years we plan to issue 4-5 million credit cards and capture a market share of 17-18 per cent. We want to be one of the top three players in the next five years,” said Pralay Mondal, senior group president, YES Bank.

YES Bank, Axis Bank, Asian Paints, LIC Housing Finance and Dewan Housing Finance Corporation are among 30 stocks from the BSE500 and Nifty500 indices, which hit their 52-week highs on Friday.

YES Bank ended 3% higher at Rs 1,291 on the BSE on reports that the stock's weightage on the MSCI Global Standard Indexes was raised to 1.7% from 0.46% earlier. The increase could translate into additional buying of $224 million.

BENGALURU: Private sector lender Yes Bank has rolled out adoption benefits for its workforce, in an effort to align organisational objectives with the needs of employees.

Realising that employees need to spend time building an emotional connect with new additions to the family and recognising that many are choosing to adopt children, the organisation has introduced the benefits, which are applicable 1st August onwards.

Besides superior asset quality, growth potential of their retail book was a factor that led to the re-rating of some of the smaller sized private sector banks in the last one year. A closer look at the retail businesses of Yes Bank and IndusInd Bank reveals that core consumer-driven segments still account for a relatively small portion of their respective retail books.

NEW DELHI: Technology majors do it globally, and, for a while now, Indian tech players have also been hiring the best architects in the business to make their offices Gen-Y friendly. But now, a bank wants to turn the idea of a 'traditional bank' on its head. Yes Bank is designing its upcoming facility in Chennai to encourage more collaboration among its growing millennial workforce.

Despite its gross non-performing assets (NPA) more than doubling over the past year, Yes Bank on Wednesday reported a 33% year-on-year rise in its net profit for the June quarter to `731.80 crore, benefiting from a surge in non-interest income and higher net interest income.

The private sector lender’s total income for the quarter came in at `4,762.83 crore, over 25% higher than in the same quarter last year.

Private sector lender Yes Bank today said it has received an in-principle approval from the capital markets regulator SEBI to sponsor a mutual fund and to set up an asset management company and a trustee company.

In a BSE filing, Yes Bank said it “has received an in-principle approval from the Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI) to sponsor a Mutual Fund and to setup an asset management company (AMC), and a trustee company.

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