India’s banks have quadrupled purchases of government bonds to bring their total ownership to a record, undermining policy makers’ efforts to inject cash into Asia’s third-biggest economy. Lenders, which bought 130 billion rupees ($2.6 billion) in the final three months of last year, added 522 billion rupees this quarter, taking holdings to 17.4 trillion rupees. Federal securities …
Read more »Last September, Centennial Bank announced that the U.S. Treasury Department had granted it $1.8 million through the Small Business Lending Fund (SBLF). Jim Basey, Centennial chairman and CEO, says the Greenwood, Colorado-based bank was glad to take the capital, for several reasons. It came with a low interest rate (1% at press time) and few …
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