Allahabad Bank is mulling an entry into four Asian cities by opening overseas branches, with a view to increase its international footprint. The bank has approached RBI for four new branches. One in Singapore, another in Dhaka, then Shanghai and Kowloon in Hong Kong. However, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is yet to give the go-ahead on the proposal. At present, the Kolkata-headquartered bank's sole overseas branch is in Hong Kong, while it has a representative office in mainland China's city of Shenzen.
The bank plans to augment its capital base in the last quarter of the current fiscal, but is yet to decide about the component to be raised and the route to adopt. The bank is targeting higher-than-industry credit growth of 24-25% for the fiscal, which demands capital augmentation. Apart from utilising the normal routes for tier-I and tier-II augmentation, the bank may again go for a capital infusion from the government, which would increase its majority promoter's shareholding. At present, the total capital adequacy of the bank stands at 12.75%, of which the tier-I component stands at 8.4%.crackcrack
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SBI | 799.35 |
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PNB | 101.40 |
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