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State Bank of India : The red EMU that flew over the seas

Our literatteur in mint residence has outdone himself for a change. Tamal’s work for Bankers’ Trust[a serious column on page 6 of monday's mint] that was mostly a shadow of [yet tbd] in mint has exposed reference data services from

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Posted in Amitonomics, Banking, Financial Markets, Global

Kotak Bank: Lying low and staying dull after ICICI (Bank)

On rants: Driving the agenda for quicker results announcements It is supposedly results season, Financial reforms have been on in this country for almost 20 years and Kotak is announcing results on May 12. Just when will people appreciate the

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Posted in Banking, Financial Markets, Retail Lifestyle

India Results season: HDFC Bank vs ICICI Bank

Both the private sector efforts that have taken the last decade of All India growth under their ownership having influenced governments and banks and slipped on roughshod retail portfolios without rhyme or reason, have reported they are still banks, pulling

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Posted in Financial Markets, India, O'nomics, Uncategorized

Bank Results Season: State Bank of India

When SBI reported $83 mn odd NPAs in December 09 it also reported that while Axis has moved up loan coverage ratio to the new 70% , it has not covered the ground and current profitability is with 56%. Current

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Posted in CRR, India, India Infrastructure, Uncategorized

Bank Results Season: India Midcap – Axis Bank

While we are tempted to count ICICI Bank and HDFC Bank also as mid cap peers for the great Indian restructured lambkin, Axis Bank has finally started proving its worth under Shikha Sharma’s leadership. Despite being an outside appointment, she

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Posted in Financial Markets, Financial Services, India, Uncategorized

Bank Results season: India FY 2010

DCB has come in with another $200m loss in Q4, making it one of the few times, investors have supported a restructuring story that is much rather taking the ship down, because the results are one of the first few

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Posted in Financial Markets, Home and away, India, Retail Lifestyle, Uncategorized