Farmers would now be able to have better agricultural growth with the support of National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development ( Nabard).  The bank is aiming at facilitating agricultural lending among small and marginal farmers. Nabard would be helping the needy farmers by setting up directly self-help groups (SHGs), which would be directly credit-linked with banks.

Country’s largest international bank Standard Chartered Bank has announced the launch of the ‘Smart Credit Gold Overdraft’, a product designed to ensure that customers receive the maximum value fro

Charlotte, United States  - Bank of America, the second- largest US financial institution, posted profits for the second quarter of 3.4 billion dollars that were down on last year but well above expectations.

The bank said it had been compelled to make write-downs of 1.2 billion dollars as a result of the continuing financial crisis.

Net revenue for the quarter rose to a record 20.3 billion dollars.

London - Britain's HBOS bank, one of the first to turn to investors for a cash boost, said Monday that less than 10 per cent of its shareholders had taken part in a rights issue of 4 billion pounds (8 billion dollars). 

Halifax Bank of Scotland said just 8.29 per cent of investors opted to buy heavily discounted shares as part of the scheme to help strengthen its balance sheet, announced in April. 

This means that the rights issue's underwriters, Morgan Stanley and Dresdner Kleinwort, have to find buyers for more than 3.6 billion pounds worth of shares by Tuesday's deadline, or accept the stock themselves if they fail to do so. 

Following the footsteps of leading lenders like the State bank of India and PNB, another Public sector lender Oriental Bank of Commerce (OBC) has increased its prime lending rate (PLR) by 50 basis

Investment Information Credit Rating Agency ICRA Limited (ICRA) has