SBI reports $10 million loss in subprime crisis

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April 23, 2008 15:56 IST

State Bank of India said on Wednesday that it had incurred a marked to market loss of $10 million in its investments in the US because of subprime crisis.

Talking to newsmen on the sidelines of a Ficci panel discussion on the Indian economy, SBI Chairman O P Bhatt said the bank had already factored the loss in its balance sheet for last fiscal and the impact might not be drastic.

During the discussions he said that SBI had not ventured into any exotic derivatives and the Indian companies to which the bank had intermediated MTM loss could be between Rs 600 and Rs 700 crore (Rs 6 and Rs 7 billion).

None of the companies had approached the courts till date against the bank.

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