In the wake of RBI’s decision to transfer Rs 1.76 lakh crore to the government as per the recommendations of the Bimal Jalan-led committee; and Modi Government’s the decision to merge 10 Public Sector...
Nirmala Sitaraman, Minister of Finance, in her latest press conference, announced the merger of 10 Public Sector Banks (PSBs) to carve out four big banks. In the process six, PSBs are being closed. Presently...
The press conference addressed by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday (Aug 23) is an indication that finally, the government acknowledges that the economy is crumbling and nearly hitting the rock bottom. That a...
Sovereign Debt: Liability in Perpetuity The announcement – made by Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister of India in her maiden budget speech – that India will look for options to raise funds from external markets...
India Inc. is now officially facing an economic slowdown. But economic slowdowns aren’t made overnight. This has been in the offing for almost a year now. On 23 June 2019, the Reserve Bank of...
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), once hailed as the panacea of all ills plaguing bad debt of corporations and for quick recovery of outstanding loans from them, has been in operations for a while...
The first budget of the newly re-elected government was placed on July 5, 2019, by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The budget failed to address the real problems of the economy like unemployment, agrarian...
Since the beginning of 2019 till last month, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has already cut the repo rates twice by 25 basis points (0.25%) each time. However, both of these attempts have...
RBI ‘relaxes’ norms on BSBDA accounts: There are news reports mentioning that with the new notification RBI has eased norms for BSBD accounts and new facilities will be provided to Basic Saving Bank Deposit...
More NPAs to haunt banks with IL&FS Exposures: The NCLT has asked the banks to consider their exposure to ILFS as NPAs. Earlier NCLT has restricted banks from declaring their exposure to IL&FS prompting...
Criticising the latest Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual Banking Ombudsman Report, which revealed dissatisfaction among 25 per cent customers, Financial Accountability Network (FAN India), has issued a public statement chiding RBI for being...
Banks act as financial intermediaries between depositors and borrowers. It is the public money, deposited in the form of term deposit (fixed deposits) and time deposit (saving and current accounts) which banks use for...
The crisis in the banking sector is a created one, where the commercial banks have been forced to lend on a large scale to the development projects and to the corporates and which has...
My intent in this article is to flag off a set of relevant issues one will have to deal with while mainstreaming India’s poor in Banking. The article has five sections: (a) Providing a...
After the spate of bank frauds came into the light, the parliamentarians raised this issue in the ongoing session of the parliament. Answering the question in the Lok Sabha, on July 20, 2018, on...
