Issue: 1311
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NCLT forms 5-member bench to decide on Subhash Chandra's Rs
6.5 crore repayment plan.
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Subhash Chandra Rs 22,000 cr case: NCLT fails to get majority
view on insolvency plan with 99.7 percent haircut.
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Muthoot Finance approves Muthoot Money merger to create
larger gold loan business.
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NPCI International and Uzbekistan’s NIPC Partner to Enable
UPI Payments Across Uzbekistan via UZQR.
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Govt considering easing FDI norms in defence sector for
overseas investors.
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ICICI Bank's mcap gap with HDFC Bank narrows to over 11-year
low of Rs.49K cr.
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Govt notifies Rs.1.27 trillion Semicon 2.0 scheme to boost
chip sector.
India’s GDP growth
accelerates to 7.8% in Q1 FY27: India’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7.8 per
cent in the first quarter of FY27, to Rs.81.36 lakh crore, compared with a
revised 6.9 per cent in the same quarter last fiscal, despite disruptions in
West Asia, elevated energy prices and global trade uncertainties. Chief Economic Adviser V
Anantha Nageswaran said the numbers reflect “continued resilience in the Indian
growth performance,” with contributions across sectors. “All the sectors have
contributed. Agriculture, slightly less so, but we have manufacturing and
services doing quite well in the first quarter despite the West Asia related
uncertainty,” he said, crediting government efforts to insulate input supplies
from the crisis.
(Business Line)
India’s April-July fiscal
deficit narrows to 26.8% of FY27 target: India’s fiscal deficit for the
first four months of this fiscal year stood at Rs.4.55 lakh crore or 26.8 per
cent of the full-year target at the end of July, according to data released by
the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) on Monday. The deficit was at 29.9 per
cent of Budget Estimates (BE) of 2025-26 for the first four months of the
previous financial year. While presenting the Budget for FY27, Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman had pegged the fiscal deficit target of 4.3 per cent of the
GDP or Rs.16.96 lakh crore for the current fiscal, maintaining that the
government’s fiscal consolidation path and its commitment to keeping the Budget
gap under control.
(Business Line)
India’s 7.8% growth beats
estimates, but experts point to red flags: India’s economy grew a strong
7.8 per cent in the June quarter of FY27 despite the West Asia crisis, which
many economists and analysts say was a ‘positive surprise.” But they also
flagged pockets of concern beneath the headline number including inflation,
agriculture performance due to weather related uncertainties and looming risks
from geopolitical tensions. A strong GDP growth rate in
the first quarter of FY27, despite it being a quarter of peak West Asia crisis,
is a “positive surprise,” noted Rajni Thakur, Chief Economist at L&T
Finance. “While risks from global uncertainties and El Nino remain on the
horizon, strong capex, robust credit growth, and continued policy support
should sustain economic activities for the rest of the fiscal year and drive it
above the 7 per cent level,” Thakur said.
(Business Line)
Kotak Bank recommends two
internal candidates for CEO post: Report: Kotak Mahindra Bank has
recommended two internal candidates to the Reserve Bank of India to succeed
Chief Executive Ashok Vaswani when his term ends next year, Reuters reported on
Monday, citing sources. The private-sector lender has proposed Executive
Directors Anup Saha and Paritosh Kashyap for the top job, the report said. The
recommendations mark the first step in the succession process for Vaswani, who
has said he will not seek reappointment when his term ends on December 31,
2026. The banking rules require lenders to recommend at least two candidates
for the CEO position. The RBI can approve one of the names or ask the bank to
consider other candidates if it finds the proposed names unsuitable.
(Business Today)
Mutual fund’s overseas
assets jump 24% reducing net foreign liabilities: RBI: Indian mutual funds
significantly expanded their overseas investments in 2025-26, helping reduce
their net foreign liabilities even as investments by non-resident investors in
Indian mutual fund schemes continued to grow, according to the latest survey
released by RBI. The survey, covering 53 mutual funds and their asset
management companies (AMCs), found that the foreign liabilities of mutual funds
rose 3.3 per cent year-on-year to $31.5 billion as of March 2026, largely due
to an increase in the market value of units held by overseas investors.
(Business Line)
People aged above 40
account for 76 pc of individual deposits in banks: RBI data: Individuals over forty hold
most bank deposits, while younger workers contribute less. Term deposits grew
significantly, outpacing savings and current accounts. Large deposits of one
crore and above formed a substantial portion. Bank credit growth accelerated,
driven by corporate sector loans. Interest rates on loans below nine percent
increased notably. People over 40 years of age
account for over three-fourths of individual deposits in the country's banks as
of June this year, data released by the Reserve Bank said on Monday. Those
aged between 25-40 years, who are in what can be defined as working age,
account for a little less than 20 per cent of the individual deposits, the data
said.
(Economic Times)
Bank credit to industry rises
20 percent in July: RBI data: Bank credit to industry grew
by 20 per cent in July, while advances to the agriculture sector expanded at a
faster pace of 17 per cent, according to Reserve Bank data released on Monday. The
Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has released data on sectoral deployment of bank
credit for July collected from 41 select scheduled commercial banks (SCBs)
which together account for about 95 per cent of the total non-food credit. On
a year-on-year (y-o-y) basis, non-food bank credit grew by 19.1 per cent as on
the fortnight ended July 31, 2026, compared to 9.9 per cent during the
corresponding fortnight of the previous year (July 25, 2025), RBI said.
(Economic Times)
Private banks' deposit
growth outpaces PSBs' by nearly 350 bps at June-end: Deposit growth in private
sector banks outpaced public sector banks (PSBs) by nearly 350 basis points at
the end of June 2026. Deposits in private banks grew by 13.8 per cent while
those in PSBs rose by 10.3 per cent at the end of June 2026, according to the
latest data by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Credit growth of scheduled
commercial banks outgrew deposit growth by nearly 500 basis points at the end
of June 2026. Deposits in scheduled commercial banks grew by 11.5 per cent
year-on-year (YoY) at the end of the quarter as compared with 11.3 per cent
last year, while credit grew by 16.5 per cent as against 9.9 per cent YoY in
the year-ago period. As of June 2026, the share of term deposits bearing an
interest rate of less than 7 per cent had increased to more than two-thirds of
total term deposits from 35 per cent a year ago.
(Business Standard)
Services sector growth
broadens in June; real estate leads with 24.7%: Eighteen of the 19 sub-sectors in services recorded
growth in June, up from 16 in May, with only air transport in contraction,
according to the third print of the trial Index of Services Production (ISP),
released by the National Statistics Office (NSO) on Monday. Eight of them
logged double-digit growth, unchanged from May but below the 14 seen in April. Two
sectors that had contracted in May returned to growth. Postal and courier
services, which had contracted 1 per cent, rose 5 per cent, while information
and broadcasting swung from a 7.6 per cent contraction to 4.6 per cent growth. Air
transport remained in contraction for a third consecutive month, with the pace
of decline widening to 6 per cent from 2.8 per cent in May, the data showed. Real
estate was the fastest-growing segment in June, accelerating to 24.7 per cent
from 17.7 per cent in May.
(Business Standard)
PNB may list Haryana Gramin
Bank in Q4 or early FY28, says MD & CEO: PNB is preparing to list its regional rural
bank (RRB), Haryana Gramin Bank, in the fourth quarter of the current financial
year or early 2027-28 (FY28), Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
Ashok Chandra said on Monday. “We have eight RRBs now after consolidation and
one of our RRBs — Haryana one — is getting prepared for listing,” Chandra told
Business Standard on the sidelines of PNB’s AI Summit in New Delhi. “I am
expecting that the RRB will be definitely listed in the next financial year.
Our aim is either in the fourth quarter of this year or beginning of the financial
year 2027-28.” The listing would make Haryana Gramin Bank among the first RRBs
to tap the public markets following the government's consolidation exercise
under its 'One State One RRB' initiative.
(Business Standard)
Rs.10 trillion VRRR draws
tepid response amid Rs.5 trillion liquidity flush: Banks parked just Rs.3.84 trillion during the
Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s) variable rate reverse repo (VRRR) auctions on
Monday, less than half the Rs.10 trillion notified amount, despite surplus liquidity
in the banking system rising above Rs.5 trillion to its highest level since the
third week of April. They had parked over Rs.5 trillion each on Friday and
Saturday at the RBI’s liquidity adjustment facility window. Demand at the VRRR
auction remained subdued as liquidity in the banking system is unevenly
distributed, with surplus funds concentrated among a few banks, dealers said.
(Business Standard)
RBI's net short dollar
position in forwards hits record $136.77 billion: The Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI’s)
outstanding net short dollar position in the forward market surged to record
$136.77 billion by July-end from $103.33 billion in June-end, data released by
the central bank on Monday showed. Short positions in less than one year rose to
$47.66 billion by July-end, against $40.33 billion by June-end. The short
positions in longer than one year tenure rose to $91.54 billion from $64.21 billion
during the same period. Of the $136 billion net short dollar position, $15.59
billion was in one-month contracts, $7.32 billion in 1-3 month tenures, $24.75
billion position is set to mature between three months and a year, and the
remaining $91.54 billion was in more than a year contract. The central bank had
$2.43 billion long position in the one-month contract.
(Business Standard)
UNIFIED MANAGED ACCOUNT
· A unified managed account (UMA)
is a professionally managed private investment account that can include
multiple types of investments all in a single account. Investments may include
mutual funds, stocks, bonds, and exchange-traded funds. Unified managed accounts
are often rebalanced on a specified schedule.
· The unified managed account is
one of a few options a high net worth investor has for managing their assets.
The unified managed account is an evolution of the separately managed account,
which is similar in that it is a professionally managed account that is
rebalanced often. However, separately managed accounts are typically not known
for pooling multiple investments and investment vehicles with varying
objectives. Separately managed accounts are a high net worth investment
alternative, usually offered by an investment manager, that typically focuses
on a targeted strategy managed as a separate account for the investor.
RBI KEY RATES
Repo
Rate: 5.25%
SDF:
5.00%
MSF
/Bank Rate: 5.50%
CRR:
3.00%
SLR:
18.00%
FOREX RATES (RBI REF. RATE)
INR
/ 1 USD : 95.4509
INR
/ 1 GBP : 129.2873
INR
/ 1 EUR : 110.6079
INR
/100 JPY: 59.7200
EQUITY INDEX
Sensex:
76957.27 (-307.24)
NIFTY:
24080.40 (-95.25)
Bnk NIFTY: 58024.95 (+528.65)
National
Nutrition Week (Sept 1–7): Highlights the
importance of healthy diets and good health. 1st September is also
observed as World Letter Writing Day: Encourages people to connect by writing
handwritten letters.
Historic events: September 1
marks several defining moments in Indian and world history, notably the
official adoption of Indian Standard Time (IST) in 1947 and the outbreak of
World War II in 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. In India, this date also saw
the establishment of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) in 1956
following the nationalization of the insurance sector, alongside Mahatma Gandhi
undertaking a fast for communal harmony in 1947. Globally, September 1 is
remembered for events such as the discovery of the RMS Titanic wreck in 1985
and the tragic beginning of the Beslan school siege in 2004.
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