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RBI defers move to cap private bank salaries
24 Feb 2011
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State Bank to merge remaining 5 associate banks in 18 months
23 Feb 2011
SBI chairman O P Bhatt says the merger of subsidiaries is a systematic process and all assocaite banks will offer products, services and processes of similar nature and will be migrated to the same core banking technology
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Mobile phone transactions need a big push
18 Feb 2011
Mobile Money can become the preferred payment method – but for this, banks and telcos will have to be more proactive, says Probir Roy, co-founder and promoter, PayMate
Banks must retool payments businesses: BCG
08 Feb 2011
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Banco Santander bids $5.8 billion for Poland's BZ WBK
08 Feb 2011
The tender offer is part of the agreement between Banco Santander and Allied Irish Banks for the acquisition of AIB's stake in BZ WBK
Budget may permit new private sector banks
03 Feb 2011
Credit cards account for 24 per cent of complaints received by banking ombudsman in 2009-10
02 Feb 2011
Public sector banks raise lending, deposit rates
01 Feb 2011
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Ready to help India on tax evaders: Swiss official
29 Jan 2011
After the revised double tax avoidance treaty with India is ratified during the year, Indian authorities could get information on tax evaders if they are able to produce evidence of tax evasion, says a Swiss official
India's forex reserves close to $300-bn
29 Jan 2011
S&P says credit risks of Indian banks manageable
28 Jan 2011
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RBI hikes key rates by 0.25 per cent
25 Jan 2011
Hoping to put the brakes on soaring inflation, the Reserve Bank of India today hiked its key interest rates (repo and reverse repo) by expected 0.25 percentage point each
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