Brussels - The trouble with telling a nervous customer that you have solved their problem is that you first have to admit that there is one. That is the dilemma facing the world's banks, governments and financial institutions as they desperately try to restore faith in an economic system which millions of customers now believe has failed.
"We have shown the world that the United States of America will stabilize our financial markets and maintain a leading role in the global economy," US President George W Bush proclaimed on October 3 after the US Congress passed a 700-billion-dollar bank rescue plan.
His words spectacularly failed to restore global confidence, with stock markets nosediving in the days following the vote.
Bank of India has shown a 80 percent increase in net profit during the period July-September with both interest and Non-interest incomes going up. The bank has registered a profit of Rs 7.63 billion as against Rs 4.25 billion last year. Also the total income has shown a rise from Rs 36.03 billion last year to Rs 46.12 billion. While the net interest income rose to Rs 13.63 billion against Rs 9.86 billion a year back, whereby improving the net interest margin from 3.04 percent a year back to 3.2 percent now.
HDFC Bank, India’s second biggest lender by market value, has opened its first full-fledged overseas commercial branch at a new financial district in Bahrain.
The bank stated that it has chosen Bahrain due to its excellent location, clean, open and transparent regulations, cost-effectiveness, and good bilateral relations between India and Bahrain.