Tag: Icici Bank

ICICI Bank of India eyes growth after strong Q4

ICICI Bank, India’s No. 2 lender, posted on Friday a larger-than-expected 31 percent rise in quarterly profit and forecast a higher growth rate for domestic loans and stable asset quality for the coming year. Loan demand in India is expected to pick up after the central bank last week cut its benchmark lending rate for […]

Sahara and ICICI Bank targets Parsvnath’s prime land in Delhi.

Real estate major Parsvnath Developers may soon be able to reduce a significant chunk of its debt, thanks to certain corporate giants showing interest in buying a prime piece of property it owns in the national capital. The Sahara Group is engaged in discussions with Parsvnath to buy its commercial land near Connaught Place in […]

DLF plans to refinance ECB at 7%

Photo by abrinskyDLF, India’s leading real estate developer is approaching domestic banks like State Bank of India (SBI) and ICICI bank to refinance a 300 million USD loan it had raised last year through external commercial borrowings (ECB). The debt of company might get refinanced at a rate of around 7%. The refinancing will be […]

Bank lending to residential sector increased in 2009-10

In 2009-10, the lenders such as Jammu & Kashmir Bank, Union Bank of India, ICICI, Bank of India and Canara Bank reduced lending to the some sectors of real estate. As per the data provided by banks, the largest private sector bank, ICICI reduced its lending to realty by 17 % and to capital markets […]

Infra Fund of $500 by ICICI Venture

May 12, 2010 The chief executive of India’s ICICI Venture which is the ICICI Bank’s private equity arm announced that they plan an amount of 500 million dollars to be invested in infrastructure projects. This will be launched by July. In an interview, Vishakha Mulye told Reuters that majorly education (and) hospital will be put […]

Home Loans Becomes More Costlier

With RBI hiking the repo rate, home loans under the floating rate regime have witnessed a hike of .75 %. Leading housing finance providers like HDFC and ICICI Bank have again raised the interest rates. Who spares a thought for the loanee?. HOME LOANS have again become dearer, no thanks to the hike in interest […]

Real Estate Growth Impacted Due To High Interest Rates

Leading home loan lender ICICI Bank said that growth in the real estate sector has been impacted due to high interest rates and prices but maintained that there was no asset bubble in the sector. ICICI Bank Joint Managing Director Chanda Kochhar said, “Clearly there is a slowdown in the number of deals …interest rates […]

Retail Players Lap Up Stocks As FIIs Exit

As the four-year bull run in the Indian market went into a sharp correction early this year, foreign investors quietly withdrew part of their holdings in leading stocks while retail investors bought into them. Domestic investors(including institutions, MFs and retail investors)were net buyers in those top companies. These entities together bought around 1.1 percentage point […]