ICICI Bank launches ‘ICICI Stack’ for corporates and their partners, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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ICICI Bank launched ‘ICICI STACK for Corporates’, a comprehensive set of digital banking solutions for corporates and their entire ecosystem including promoters, group companies, employees, dealers, vendors and all other stakeholders. It provides customised digital banking services to companies in over 15 leading industries– such as financial services, IT/ITES, pharmaceuticals, steel to name a few – and their entire ecosystem. These services can further be tailor-made for companies within an industry.

ICICI Bank has opened eight ecosystem branches- five in Mumbai and three in Delhi NCR. It plans to launch another four in this financial year.

“With an objective to cater to the ecosystem of every corporate, we have launched a digital ‘ICICI Stack for Corporates’ with many industry first features. It offers banking solutions to corporates with backward and forward integration for their entire network of employees, dealers, vendors and all other stakeholders. We look forward to partnering with our customers for the banking needs of their entire ecosystem and unlock the full potential.” said Vishakha Mulye, Executive Director at ICICI Bank in a statement.

This stack delivers services like digital account opening, payments and collections, trade and foreign exchange services in addition to instant reconciliations and working capital solutions. It also provides an e-BG (electronic bank guarantee) solution that acts as an electronic repository of authenticated BG, automated stamping (AeS) which eliminates the need for physical stamp paper from branches for bank guarantees, suite of API-based payments and collection solutions that directly integrate with a customer’s ERP system, and iValidate, an API based real-time reconciliation system of collecting funds from multiple parties.

The bank has its own web-based platform, which facilitates instant approval and disbursement of loans for channel partners. The bank also provides a cloud-based platform, which provides a fully embedded solution customised for the dealer and vendor management system of the corporates.

The list of 350 solutions includes the instant opening of salary accounts using Aadhaar, access to a suite of cards, private and wealth banking, instant sanction of loans/credit limits, pay later digital credit for pre-approved customers of the corporate, access to emergency funds through salary overdrafts and loan against shares and mutual funds and protection solutions like insurance. These services are available on the Bank’s mobile application, iMobilePay.

The bank also provides expertise in private banking for services like wealth management, setting up of trusts and family offices among other curated services for promoters and directors.



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CBI files cases against Delhi based private firms, directors, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) registered a case against two Delhi-based private firms, including their directors or promoters, for allegedly defrauding Yes Bank of Rs 466.51 crore.

Raghubir Kumar Sharma, Rajendra Kumar Mangal, Tapsi Mahajan, their companies Oyster Buildwell Pvt Ltd and Avantha Realty Pvt Ltd, and officials of Jhabua Power Ltd have also been booked by the CBI for allegedly defrauding Yes Bank of over Rs 466 crore in 2017-19.

The CBI alleged that the accused engaged in a criminal conspiracy, criminal breach of trust, cheating, and forgery for diversion of public funds to the tune of ₹466.15 crore.

After filing a FIR against Gautam Thapar, Avantha Realty, and others for alleged diversion of over ₹466 crore from Yes Bank, the investigating agency conducted searches in 14 places including Delhi-NCR, Secunderabad, and Kolkata.

The agency alleged that a loan of ₹400 crore was sanctioned to Avantha Realty in March 2016 for 10 years despite its poor financial condition.



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Court issues notice to ministry, RBI, BFSI News, ET BFSI

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Issuing a notice to the ministry of urban affairs and RBI, a Delhi court has remarked that banks give loan without proper verification of the borrower, leading to a situation that has not only increased load of litigation but also malpractices when it comes to recovering it.

Additional district judge Ajay Goel came across five such pending cases that prompted him to suo motu discuss the issue at hand. He called the practices followed by banks and government authorities to be the cause of the prevalent situation.

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