The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley to be the Chief G...

The Self Help Group (SHG) Bank Linkage Programme run by NABARD has helped poor women source collateral-free loans totalling Rs 61,000 crore from the banking system, the government said on Monday on the eve of NABARD's 36th foundation day celebrations here, to ...

Syndicate Bank DGM S S Hegde said financing for solar power is a viable business opportunity under MSME especially the solar sewing machine and laptop-printer kiosks solutions. He was speaking at a workshop on financing for decentralised renewable energy ...

Pune : As lending to the priority sector is a good business, the Reserve Bank of India is set to revamp the State-Level Bankers' Committees (SLBC) to enable more lending to agriculture and small and micro enterprises, its Deputy Governor S.S. Mundra said on ...

Owing to technical glitch in seeding Aadhaar with bank accounts, subsidy amount of Rs 8 crore could not be credited to the accounts of milk producers coming under the Dakshina Kannada Co-operative Milk Producers Union Ltd (DKMUL), said an official. The ...

By Andrew MacAskill and Lawrence White LONDON (Reuters) - Lloyds Banking Group is set to miss an end-June deadline for offering compensation to victims of one of Britain's largest fraud cases, the latest delay in a decade-long struggle by business owners for ...

Efforts to revive the Tolstoy Farm, a desolate area which once was a thriving commune run by Mahatma Gandhi, have received a major boost with several Indian companies in South Africa pledging support for its restoration. Tolstoy Farm, some 30 km from ...

Vat Vrikshya -- banyan tree in Sanskrit -- helps tribal women, with absolutely zero formal education, set up businesses. IMAGE: Vikash Das is a first generation entrepreneur. All photographs: Kind courtesy Vikash Das "One day I thought to myself, what am I doing sitting in a cubicle and making an MNC richer!" With these thoughts, Vikash Das, 28, decided to quit his high paying job as a security analyst at IBM, Bengaluru, where he had been working for three-and-a-half years. "I had a good job, ...

Despite a strengthened institutional credit network, a study conducted by ASSOCHAM and EY has highlighted major lag in terms of financial services in the country, with 19 percent of thecountry's population excluded from banking services.The main objective of ...

SINGAPORE - Southeast Asian ride-hailing service Grab expects to raise $2.5 billion in a record round of fundraising to cement its lead over Uber Technolgies Inc in the region and grow its payments platform. Southeast Asia has become a key battleground for ...