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ICICI Bank – Image makeover – Learning from Mistakes

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In a recent meeting, the management highlighted its initiatives to change the general perception about the bank. Some of these aspects are very important and quite commendable as well, in our view.

ICICI Bank is trying to build personal relations with its customers and has been increasing its branch banking focus, compared to its earlier strategy of pushing customers towards ATMs and internet, which never allowed any relationship to be built between the customer and the bank. The management is trying to project a very soft image of itself across all customers and different from its earlier “know all” approach.

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How Indians Can Settle Credit Cards + Loan EMIs – A Relief Package

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Indian Banks in a bid to expand their market share in Housing Loans, Auto Loans and Credit Cards, lent recklessly over 2004 to 2007 to any consumer without even verifying the credentials. Now, they are facing rapid defaults and are causing a misery to the Indian borrower. The RBI aware of this situation, has instructed BCSBI an independent body [it is as good as Government as it was formed by the RBI, so your data is safe with them] that looks into the functioning of Banks and Financial Institutions has started a separate counseling wing to identify genuine cases and negotiate a relief package.

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Bank of Baroda – Mints Money in Sept Quarter

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Bank of Baroda’s NII growth for the quarter remained strong at 23% YoY led by an improvement in margins. The NIM on domestic operations expanded to 2.89% as against 2.57% in Q1FY10. Growth in non-interest income ex-treasury remained muted at ~3% YoY; however core fee income posted a strong growth of 25%. Treasury profits for … Read more Bank of Baroda – Mints Money in Sept Quarter

RBI sees need to revive private expenditure to boost growth

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India’s monetary authority Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said that the main challenge to revert to a high growth path was to revive private consumption and investment expenditure. Governor of the RBI Duvvuri Subbarao said at an industry event that government will have to ensure a pick up in private expenditure as well.

The government is running a fiscal deficit of 6.8% in the current fiscal, highest in the post liberalization era, which according to the finance minister was a deliberate strategy to push growth through increased government expenditure. While the move is sure to help in expansion, the government cannot sustain the deficit at such high levels in the medium run and therefore the road to climb back to high growth levels will only be through stimulating private investment and consumption levels going forward.

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