KATHMANDU, March 11: The Pashupatinath Temple holds deposits totaling Rs 2.65 billion in various banks and owns 5,172 ropanis of land, according to its asset details.

KATHMANDU, Sept 18: A number of banks have raised their interest rates for the months of mid-September and mid-October despite the banks being reported to have sufficient loanable funds amid slow demand for loans.

KATHMANDU, Sept 10: The government is implementing a new policy allowing 60 percent of the accumulated funds of the local level to be counted as deposits from today.

KATHMANDU, July 1: The Department of Cooperatives (DoC) says it has been receiving an increasing number of complaints from the members who failed to get back their money deposited in cooperatives.

KATHMANDU, June 25: The government’s deposits with banks and financial institutions (BFIs) declined by 35.6 percent in the first 11 months of the current fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, April 8: The deposit collection by the commercial banks increased Rs 34 billion in the past three weeks.

KATHMANDU, March 29: The banks and financial institutions (BFIs) have been under a cushion of liquidity position with an increase in deposit collection compared to their lackluster lending.

KATHMANDU, Feb 16: Commercial banks collected deposits worth Rs 25 billion in the past one month between mid-January and mid-February.

KATHMANDU, Dec 7: Nepali banks have started receiving some respite in their liquidity position with an increased deposit collection recently.

KATHMANDU, Nov 22: Twenty six commercial banks of Nepal collected deposits of Rs 16 billion in one month between mid-October and mid-November, giving some respite to the Nepali banking sector, which has been struggling to maintain their liquidity position.

KATHMANDU, Nov 7: Deposit collection by the commercial banks in the country increased by Rs 21 billion last week, while the lending amount declined by Rs 1 billion during the period.

KATHMANDU, Oct 22: Commercial banks collected additional deposits of Rs 61.64 billion last month, while they lent additional Rs 30.04 billion during the period.

KATHMANDU, Dec 17: Commercial banks issued additional loans worth Rs 360 billion in the first five months of the current fiscal year, which was more than 16 times their deposit collections over the period.

KATHMANDU, Sept 22: It has been revealed that commercial banks have collected Rs 26 billion in deposits in the last one week at a time when the financial institutions are expected to face a liquidity crunch.

KATHMANDU, June 9: The second wave of COVID pandemic has affected the credit investment of banks. Although during the onset of the second wave of the pandemic it did not seem to have much effect, the problem has started to become visible in recent days.

KATHMANDU, Jan 6: Cooperatives have been mobilizing Rs 477.96 billion deposited by their members, which accounts for more than 11 percent of the total deposits collected by the commercial banks.

KATHMANDU, Oct 31: The shortage of lendable fund in bank and financial institutions (BFIs) and their competition to get hold of longer-term money has altered the composition of deposits in the banking system.

KATHMANDU, June 22: With tacit support from the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB), the Nepal Bankers’ Association (NBA) has once again decided to cap interest rates on deposits.

KATHMANDU, May 27: Banking institutions that are facing shortage of lendable fund are now feeling a sigh of relief with the recent rise of stock of deposits as the government expedites development expenditures at the end of the fiscal year.

KATHMANDU, March 26: Commercial banks offering advance interest payment for depositors have prompted concerns among other bankers. They say that such scheme was creating 'artificial deposits'.

KATHMANDU, March 10: Nepal Bankers Association (NBA) on Friday told its member banks to suspend their interbank transactions with NIC Asia Bank Ltd for raising interests on deposits “in breach of an informal understanding to cap the interest rates.”

KATHMANDU, Feb 22: Deposit collection of commercial banks in the first month of the third quarter has fallen, while loan disbursement is on the rise, a recent data of Nepal Bankers Association (NBA) shows.

KATHMANDU, Nov 26: Banks have again been aggressively expanding their loans even when their deposit growth has slowed down.

KATHMANDU, August 5:Nepal Stock Exchange (Nepse) index jumped up 17.3 points this week to close at 1,660.58 points on Thursday -- the last trading day of the week.

KATHMANDU, July 14: Banks have added Rs 19 billion in new deposits in the first week of July while their lending increased by only Rs 1 billion.

ILAM, July 14: Ethnicity-based fringe parties, which have their stronghold in the eastern hill districts, have lost their election deposits in their own bastion after failing to secure even 10% of the votes in the elections. Such an election result was unexpected as popularity of such parties has been on the rise in the region of late.

ILAM, July 12: Ethnicity-based fringe parties, which have their stronghold in the eastern hill districts, have lost their election deposits in their own bastion after failing to secure even 10% of the votes in the elections.

POKHARA, June 21: Depositors have demanded that the management of Kailash Development Bank refund their stolen deposits as the money was withdrawn from their bank accounts using fake signature.

Govt spending has not pumped much cash into banking system

KATHMANDU, April 15: Bank and financial institutions (BFIs) are seeing the exodus of depositors from saving and call deposit accounts to fixed deposits following the rise in interest rates of fixed deposits.

KATHMANDU, April 7: Banks have extended more loans than the total deposits they have mobilized in the first four months of 2017, indicating that they are still walking a tightrope between deposits and loans.

KATHMANDU, April 6: Banks have extended more loans than the total deposits they have mobilized in the first four months of 2017, indicating that they are still walking a tightrope between deposits and loans.

KATHMANDU, March 30: While banks have heaved a sigh of relief after the regulation issued the Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) allowed them to use their funds to extend credits even without getting new deposits, the real problem of 'credit crunch' is yet to go away as their deposit base has not expanded significantly.

KATHMANDU, Jan 31: While bank and financial institutions (BFIs) are raising their fixed deposit rates rapidly to lure deposits to overcome the shortage of loan-able funds, many bankers say such move is less likely to pump money into the banking system.

KATMANDU, Dec 19: Deposit mobilization by commercial banks is falling in recent weeks, while loan disbursement is increasing.

KATHMANDU, Oct 24: Microfinance institutions (MFIs) have sought permission to mobilize deposit from public after their traditional source of fund is likely to dry up following the new requirement for commercial banks to extend 2 percent of their total loans to deprived sector.