Oct, 22 The price of the oil basket (OPEC) fell to $60 a barrel.
Oct, 17 World oil prices fell below $70 a barrel.
Oct, 6 The capitalization of the world stock exchanges fell by 2.5 trillion dollars.
ICICI Bank
ICICI Bank (Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India) is India's largest private sector bank and second largest overall. ICICI Bank is the most valuable bank in India in terms of market capitalization and is ranked third amongst all the companies listed on the Indian stock exchanges in terms of free float market capitalisation. ICICI Bank offers a wide range of banking products and financial services to corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and through its specialised subsidiaries and affiliates in the areas of investment banking, life and non-life insurance, venture capital and asset management.
The Bank currently has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Russia and Canada, branches in Singapore, Bahrain, Hong Kong, Sri Lanka and Dubai International Finance Centre and representative offices in the United States, United Arab Emirates, China, South Africa, Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Our UK subsidiary has established a branch in Belgium.
Headquarters:
Mumbai, India
Leadership:
N Vaghul, K.V.Kamath, Nachiket Mor, Chanda Kochhar
Repartition of the Global Banking System is inevitable - 05.12.2008 The financial crisis continues to storm in the global markets. This time the main victim of crisis is a banking system developed and developing countries. And experts notice, that the global banking system will undergo huge changes by 2012.
US government puts up $300bn in Citigroup rescue - 25.11.2008 The US government pulled Citigroup back from the abyss yesterday with a comprehensive bail-out that saw taxpayers guaranteeing $306bn of risky assets and injecting $20bn of capital into the banking group.
HSBC cuts 450 jobs in Hong Kong - 18.11.2008 HSBC was laying off 500 people in Asia, 90 percent of them in Hong Kong, in a further indication that the Asian financial community, so far relatively unscathed by mass layoffs seen on Wall Street, is being affected by the global financial crisis.