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Roads and telecom are missing out on infrastructure credit revival
November 4, 2026, 2:36 amThe subdued growth in road credit comes against the backdrop of substantial government spending on highway development. However, the sector's financing structure has changed over the years, with a growing...
Bank credit growth to NBFCs hits 81-month high as shadow banks tank up for festive season
November 4, 2026, 2:33 amBanks added Rs 6.6 lakh crore of credit to NBFCs over the past year, around 1.5 times the Rs 4.4 lakh crore added in the previous three years combined. NBFCs...
NBFC bond fundraising falls 19% as rising yields raise borrowing costs
November 4, 2026, 2:32 amNBFCs raised Rs 24,457 crore through private placements in October, compared with Rs 30,034 crore in September. Bajaj Finance, Poonawalla Fincorp, Sundaram Finance, Muthoot Capital Services and Jio Credit were...
SBI identifies Rs 10,000 Cr agri loan pool for restructuring across three drought hit states; uptake likely to be limited
November 3, 2026, 8:39 pmState Bank of India has identified a potential agricultural loan portfolio of around Rs 10,000 crore for restructuring across three states that have declared drought, with the actual uptake depending...
IBA working on structured cyber-incident information sharing as AI attacks emerge: Setty
November 3, 2026, 11:50 amState Bank of India Chairman and Indian Banks’ Association Chairman CS Setty said the banking industry is working on structured information sharing around cyber incidents as AI-led attacks emerge, with...
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Jio’s Big Moment: An India Story
October 30, 2026, 2:49 amIt took Reliance Industries decades to build a business valued at around Rs 16 lakh crore. Jio Platforms, meanwhile, reached a market capitalisation of more than Rs 13 lakh crore...
The Great BFSI Leadership Shuffle
October 23, 2026, 2:56 amIdeally, leadership roles should be backed by robust succession planning to ensure continuity. Otherwise, ongoing projects can be disrupted. In today’s digital world, where everything is moving towards real time,...
India’s two economies
October 16, 2026, 3:17 amThe Indian economy is currently telling two parallel stories. If one is true, the other can also have merit. If BKC, Mumbai’s financial hub, contributes significantly to India's economic output...
India’s two economies
October 16, 2026, 2:55 amThe Indian economy is currently telling two parallel stories. If one is true, the other can also have merit. If BKC, Mumbai’s financial hub, contributes significantly to India's economic output...
IDBI Bank: From Kingfisher's wreckage to Fairfax's big bet
October 15, 2026, 2:39 amFinally, the much-awaited deal involving IDBI Bank has gone through. For Rs 52,878 crore, Canadian giant Fairfax will take control of the marquee headquarters of IDBI Bank, standing tall near...
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L&T Finance Pitch Point 2.0: Where an AI startup’s big idea meets enterprise scale
November 4, 2026, 2:30 pmPitch Point, L&T Finance’s contest for AI startups, is back for a second edition. Last year’s winners, Arrowhead AI and SpoofSense, talk about what they got out of it and...
Razorpay gets Sebi nod for Rs 5,000-6,000 cr IPO; eyes USD 5 billion valuation
November 4, 2026, 2:10 pmMeesho deepens fintech bet with ₹400 crore infusion into payments arm
November 4, 2026, 1:50 pmMeesho has invested nearly INR 400 crore in its wholly owned payments subsidiary through a rights issue, according to a regulatory filing reported by Moneycontrol. The move comes as the...
BIT Group and Techtanium Sign MOU to Advance Tokenized Assets and Institutional Digital Finance
November 4, 2026, 1:30 pmSingapore, BIT Group, a digital asset financial infrastructure group, and Techtanium, a Singapore-based global fintech company, signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to explore new opportunities for banks and...
A month after RBI’s rate hike, banks start raising deposit rates as liquidity shrinks, Bank of India the latest to move
November 4, 2026, 1:10 pmDomestic banks are beginning to increase their deposit rates due to shrinking liquidity conditions in the market. Bank of India recently announced a rate hike on deposits for various maturities,...
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Canara Bank MD Brajesh Singh on margins, FCNR inflows and the changing rate cycle
November 1, 2026, 8:28 pmCanara Bank has mobilised USD 5.8 billion through FCNR(B) deposits, or around Rs 55,000 crore, with the inflows helping fund loan growth and replace around Rs 30,000–35,000 crore of bulk...
NBFCs need risk-adjusted growth, sharper division of labour between humans and AI: CROs
October 30, 2026, 9:05 amNBFC risk leaders are redefining good growth around profitability, risk-adjusted returns, asset quality and governance rather than AUM expansion alone. They also stressed that AI must complement human judgement as...
AI can turn unstructured SME data into lending intelligence, but human underwriting remains critical: NBFC leaders
October 30, 2026, 9:01 amAI is helping NBFCs structure fragmented SME data, speed up underwriting and extract insights from banking, GST and other alternate data sources. But lenders said SME lending remains too diverse...
NBFCs need to turn fragmented data into real-time intelligence without compromising risk: CDOs
October 30, 2026, 9:00 amNBFCs are increasingly shifting from data collection to real-time decision intelligence, with lenders using customer, behavioural and transaction signals to improve underwriting, collections and frontline productivity. But executives said speed...
NBFCs could automate up to 75–80% of processes, but high-risk decisions will remain human-led: CTOs
October 30, 2026, 8:57 amNBFC technology leaders expect automation to deepen sharply over the next few years, with estimates ranging from 50–60 per cent to 75–80 per cent autonomy. However, lending decisions with material...