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Banking in a troubled city

“Our cash deposit generation, day-to-day lending, inland transfer of money, bank-to-bank clearance of cheques, opening of letters of credit and issuance of bank guarantees, you name anything, all witnessed a slowdown,” said pr [...]

Posted On : Aug, 23 2011 | Comments : 0

City banks vulnerable targets

Tuesday's Rs 17 lakh robbery in front of Punjab National Bank's HAL branch is not the first one making a mockery of the prevailing law and order situation in the state capital. To start with, on June 8, 2005, three miscreants d [...]

Posted On : Aug, 03 2011 | Comments : 0

CMB, city banks to pilot deposit rate liberalization

China has launched a trial program allowing a limited number of banks to independently set deposit rates, Reuters reported, citing state media. Some city commercial banks and China Merchants Bank (CMB; 600036.SH), will compete for large [...]

Posted On : Feb, 15 2011 | Comments : 0

Airlines see scope for expanding cargo capacity

Shubhra Tandon India is in a crisis as it tries to adjust its infrastructure and, even more critically, its cost structure to the realities of today...,” Mr Giovanni Bisignani, Director General and CEO, International Air Transport [...]

Posted On : Mar, 03 2010 | Comments : 0

As Airlines Post Results, Capacity Is the Question

Investors are bracing for ugly numbers as U.S. airlines start reporting their first-quarter results this week amid a recession that has pushed industry traffic off a cliff. They also will be seeking clues from airline executives on whether [...]

Posted On : Apr, 13 2009 | Comments : 0

Chemical-polluted tap plants yet to resume water supply in e...

A chemical company was forced to be closed for having caused a massive tap water pollution in Yancheng, east Jiangsu province, said a city government official Saturday.The city government secretary-general Xue Yu said that the Biaoxin Chemi [...]

Posted On : Feb, 21 2009 | Comments : 0

City's funding for future retiree healthcare costs falls sho...

Healthcare costs for retired Boston city workers are expected to top $3 billion over the next 30 years, and the city is coming under increasing pressure to start setting aside more taxpayer money to cover the costs. Over the last two years [...]