Tuesday saw Bandhan Bank shares increase over 2% upon the company saying the Reserve Bank has fully withdrawn the restrictions imposed on the private sector lender for high promoter holding, nearly two years after imposing them.
The stock rose by 2.47% to Rs 294.40 on the BSE. At the NSE, it jumped 2.47% to Rs 294.40.
The restrictions included seeking prior approvals for network expansion, and also freezing managing director and chief executive Chandra Shekhar Ghosh’s remuneration.
Bandhan Financial Holdings has recently offered a discount on a sale of shares worth $1.4 billion or over Rs10,500 crore, to reduce its stake by over 20% to 40%, the level acceptable for the regulator.
In September 2018, the RBI had imposed the restrictions and did away with the condition of seeking approval for opening banking outlets in February this year.
The RBI, vide its communication dated August 17, 2020 has lifted the other regulatory restriction (on) ‘the remuneration of the MD and CEO of the bank stands frozen, at the existing level’, the bank said. Consequent to the above, all the regulatory restrictions imposed by the RBI vide letter dated September 19, 2018, on the Bank are now withdrawn, it added.