Global brokerage Jefferies referred to Bank of Baroda as the base, Vijaya Bank the kicker and Dena Bank as 'bad bank'.

The stock closed 17.04% or 23 points lower on the NSE.  On the BSE, the stock closed 16.03%  or 21 points lower at 113 level. The market capitalisation of the stock fell by Rs 5,727 crore to Rs 30,013 crore on the BSE.

Bank of Baroda, Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank to merge; govt promises to protect employees' interestsMoving ahead with consolidation of public sector banks, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday announced the merger of Bank of Baroda, Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank. The merged entity would be India's third largest. There will be no adverse impact on employees of merged entity, the Finance Minister added. Department of Financial Services Secretary Rajeev Kumar said that the new bank will ...

The merger of Dena Bank and Vijaya Bank with Bank of Baroda will create new challenges for the amalgamated bank.

The merged entity or amalgamated bank would be India's third largest.

RBI pulls back rupee from the brink by selling dollarsThe rupee slumped to a historic low of 72.91 in morning trade on Wednesday forcing the RBI to sell US dollars in the market through public sector banks to bring the Indian currency back from the brink. The government also issued a statement that the rupee would not be allowed to crash to an unreasonable level which further bolstered sentiments and enabled the rupee to climb back to 72.18 vis-a-vis the US dollar at the end of th...

While the government has refused to cut the high excise duty, some states like Rajasthan, Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal have cut VAT to pass on some relief to consumers.

The government also issued a statement thatthe rupee would not be allowed to crash to an unreasonable level which further bolsteredsentiments and enabled the rupee to climb back to 72.18 vis-a-vis the US dollarat the end of the day to settle at 51 paise higher than the previous day'sclose.

In his letter to the parliamentary committee, the celebrated economist Rajan listed out the key reform areas to prevent recurrence of the kind of bad loan that the system is currently grappling with.

Raghuram Rajan explained that loans under Modi government's popular flagship scheme Pradhan Mantri Mudra Yojana and the Kisan Credit Card needed to be examined \"more closely\" for potential credit risk.

\"I also sent a list of high profile cases to the PMO urging that we coordinate action to bring at least one or two to book. I am not aware of progress on this front. This is a matter that should be addressed with urgency,\" says the former RBI governor in a 17-page letter.

In a critique of the March 2018 report of the Parliamentary standing committee on energy, CFA has stated that the recommendations suggested by the Committee to address the problem of stressed assets in power sector fall short of addressing the problem in an effective manner.

Failing to find resolutions for stressed power sector companies, lenders have decided to refer 11 companies, including Prayagraj Power Generation, GMR Chhattisgarh Energy and Jaiprakash Power Venture, to the National Company Law Tribunal.

RBI Governor Urjit Patel decided to follow \"wisdom of an owl\" as he went on to conduct the \"deep surgery\" initiated by his predecessor Raghuram Rajan to clamp down on loan defaulters.

The employees of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will go on a two-day mass leave on September 4 and 5.

PS Jayakumar was one of the two selected from the private sector and joined the state-owned bank in October 2015. He was appointed for a three-year term that will come to an end on October 12, 2018.

The net NPA is also expected to decrease to 4.3 per cent, from 5.92 per cent as of June-end this year, says the ICRA report. The rating agency cautioned that GNPA and NNPA may be higher at 12.2 per cent and 5.6 per cent, respectively, in absence of resolution.

If the bank issues about $17 billion of new stock to back an acquisition, that would effectively dilute the Uday Kotak's holding below the RBI's 20 per cent target.

The committee has questioned RBI for failing to take preemptive action in checking bad loans in the banking system, prior to the Asset Quality Review (AQR) undertaken in December 2015.

According to the data, 159 branches of PSBs are operating in foreign countries, of which 41 branches were in losses in 2016-17. The country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) led the pack with nine of its overseas branches in the red.