Tuesday 19 February 2013

Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India (ICICI)

The Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India Limited (ICICI) incorporated at the initiative of the World Bank, the Government of India and representatives of Indian industry, with the objective of creating a development financial institution for providing medium-term and long-term project financing to Indian businesses.
ICICI emerges as the major source of foreign currency loans to Indian industry. Besides funding from the World Bank and other multi-lateral agencies, ICICI was also among the first Indian companies to raise funds from international markets.
ICICI Bank was established in 1994 by the Industrial Credit and Investment Corporation of India, an Indian financial institution, as a wholly owned subsidiary. The parent company was

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Theory X and Theory Y


Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s. He avoided descriptive labels and simply called the Theory X and Theory Y. He did not imply that workers would be one type or the other. Rather, he saw the two theories as two extremes - with a whole spectrum of possible behaviors in between.

Monday 4 February 2013

Objectives and Functions of IDBI

Objectives
The main objectives of IDBI is to serve as the apex institution for term finance for industry in India. Its objectives include:
  • Co-ordination, regulation and supervision of the working of other financial institutions such as IFCI , ICICI, UTI, LIC, Commercial Banks and SFCs.
  • Supplementing the resources of other financial institutions and there by widening the scope of their assistance.
  • Planning, promotion and development of key industries and diversification of industrial growth.
  • Devising and enforcing a system of industrial growth that conforms to national priorities.

Functions
The IDBI has been established to perform the following functions-
  • To grant loans and advances to IFCI, SFCs or any other financial institution by way of refinancing of loans granted by such institutions which are repayable within 25 year.
  • To grant loans and advances to scheduled banks or state co-operative banks by way of refinancing of loans granted by such institutions which are repayable in 15 years.

Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI)



IDBI stands for Industrial Development Bank of India. It was founded with the objective of financing and help develop small and medium scale industries in India.
IDBI was set up in July 1964 under an Act of Parliament as a wholly-owned subsidiary of Reserve Bank of India.

  • In 1976 its ownership had been transferred to Government of India. After the transfer of its ownership, IDBI became the main institution, through which the institutes engaged in financing, promoting and developing industry were to be coordinated. International Finance Division of IDBI transferred to Export-Import Bank of India, established as a wholly-owned corporation of Government of India, under an Act of Parliament in the year 1982. 
  • In January 1992, IDBI accessed domestic retail debt market for the first time, with innovative Deep Discount Bonds, and registered path-breaking success.The following year, it set up the IDBI Capital Market Services Ltd., as its wholly-owned subsidiary, to offer a broad range of financial services, including Bond Trading, Equity Broaking, Client Asset Management and Depository Services.