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Parliament Watch: India finds 7.23 MT rare earth reserves; NH build pace slows, key infra updates shared in Parliament
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Yes Bank awaits SMBC entry for top deck recast
Live Events (You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Mumbai: Succession planning at Yes Bank, where Sumitomo Mitsubishi Banking Corp ( SMBC ) has entered into binding deals to buy at least 20% equity, will get a clearer shape once the stake purchase by the Japanese investor is concluded, Prashant Kumar Yes Bank 's managing director and chief executive officer, told ET in an interview."We had applied for a six-month extension (for the current leadership), and the thought process is that since the new investors will be joining the board, they should have an opportunity, and the board can collectively discuss and decide the best way forward," Kumar tenure has been extended by the regulator for a period of six months with effect from also said SMBC had already applied to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to acquire a 20% stake from SBI and other banks that came together to bail out the private lender five years ago, after the regulator had ordered its board to be superseded just before the Covid has already applied to the antitrust regulator, the Competition Commission of India (CCI), for buying the Yes Bank stake, Kumar said."They (SMBC) have already made an application to the CCI," Kumar said. "We expect once these two approvals come, then this transaction would be finalised."The Japanese lender's initial application to the RBI was itself for buying 25% ownership, allowing SMBC to immediately increase stake further once the regulatory approvals are in place, ET reported on July Kumar said the September quarter would be the most challenging for the banking sector as credit growth remains sluggish and the full impact of the repo rate cut begins to flow through the system, weighing on margins."Q2 would be the toughest quarter for the entire banking industry, because the 50-bps rate cut would lead to repricing of the entire loan book linked to external benchmarks, though deposits will take some time to reprice," Kumar said. "Quarter three onwards I think it would stabilise, if there is no further rate cut."Sixty percent of Yes Bank 's loan book is linked to external benchmarks, 10% to the marginal cost of funds-based lending rate (MCLR), and the remaining 30% comprises fixed-rate also expressed concern over weak credit demand in the economy. The bank's advances grew at a modest 5% in the June quarter, while deposits rose by 4%."Demand (credit) is low, corporates are either accessing the debt or the overseas market, they have a good balance sheet, they are sitting with the cash, so reliance on the bank loans have come down on the corporate side," he said.


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IndiQube signs 320k sq ft lease in Bengaluru
(You can now subscribe to our (You can now subscribe to our Economic Times WhatsApp channel Bengaluru: IndiQube Spaces has leased approximately 320,000 sq ft spread across three towers in the Central Business District (CBD) of Bengaluru in a strategic move to deepen its footprint in India's largest flexible workspace space, branded as IndiQube Symphony, is part of a renovate-and-upgrade project secured on a 15-year development is part of IndiQube's broader strategy funded through Rs 650 crore being raised from an IPO, of which '462.6 crore has been earmarked for capex.