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The Privatisation of Public Sector Banks is not a Panacea

In the aftermath of the Rs. 12,000 crore fraud perpetrated by Nirav Modi, the critics of the Indian Banking system has launched into a fresh debate on the ownership structure of India’s Public Sector...

Read more March 30, 2018 at 12:59 pm Moumita Dutta

CSOs Ask AIIB’s India Executive Director to not to go Ahead on NIIF

To, Shri. M.M. Kutty Executive Director, India Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank March 14, 2018 Subject: AIIB’s proposed investment in National Investment and Infrastructure Fund  Dear Shri M.M. Kutty, We are writing with regard to the AIIB’s...

Read more March 25, 2018 at 10:32 am CFA

We need to Talk about Corporate Accountability: Prof Meera Nangia, DU

Criticizing the people advocating privatization of the Public Sector Banks, Meera Nangia, Prof of Commerce, Delhi University, remarked, “We need to talk about Corporate Accountability and not just the accountability of Public Sector Banks.”...

Read more March 14, 2018 at 8:21 pm CFA

Huge Overlap in Investments by MDBs, ExIM Banks, and Bilaterals on Critical Sectors

Ever since the first lending from World Bank in 1949 worth $34 million to Indian Railways and the bilateral credit India received from the erstwhile USSR and USA in the early 50s, India has...

Read more March 10, 2018 at 12:46 am Joe Athialy

India is Becoming a Nation of Defaulters: Mohan Guruswamy

“India is becoming a nation of defaulters! Why do defaulters get to buy new companies and new deals?” policy analyst Mohan Guruswamy asked at the public meeting titled ‘Crisis in the Banking Sector: Who...

Read more March 6, 2018 at 1:19 pm CFA

Press Release: Wilfully Letting go Wilful Defaulters of Bank Scams

Press Release | February 23, 2018 Wilfully Letting go Wilful Defaulters of Bank Scams New Delhi: A public meeting held here today has accused the Modi government of wilfully letting go wilful defaulters of...

Read more February 23, 2018 at 7:49 pm CFA

RBI is an Accomplice in bringing the FRDI Bill

An article in Hindustan Times dated February 12, 2018, titled Reserve Bank Goes Back on its Opposition to the FRDI Bill claims that the Reserve Bank has retracted from its former position of three months...

Read more February 16, 2018 at 4:54 pm Madhavi Bansal

Budgeting for Losses – NPAs, Recapitalisation and Budgetary Allocations

Recapitalization or capital infusion of Public Sector Banks from budgetary allocations has been making news for the past few years on a regular basis. In August 2015, the government under its Indradhanush framework announced...

Read more February 9, 2018 at 2:12 pm Nishank

Reflections on the Union Budget 2018-19 from the Margins

Union Budget 2018-19: Issues of Marginalised Sections

Read more February 7, 2018 at 4:40 pm CFA

Banking on Accountability and Transparency

Burdened with the ever-increasing non-performing assets (NPAs) and saddled with its provisioning, it is common knowledge now that Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have suffered enormous losses and thus, are in a crisis. The current...

Read more January 19, 2018 at 2:52 pm Madhavi Bansal

Citizens Demanding their MPs to Repeal FRDI

Concerned citizens are drawing the attention of the members of the Parliament towards serious implications of the Financial Resolution and Deposit Insurance (FRDI) Bill 2017 on the individual depositors and the banking sector at...

Read more January 4, 2018 at 4:51 pm CFA

PSBs Must Stop Minimum Account Balance Requirement

Public Statement Penalizing for Poverty – Public Sector Banks Should Stop Extorting Money Over Minimum Account Balance (MAB) Requirement It was highly shocking to learn that State Bank of India (SBI) had levied Rs...

Read more January 4, 2018 at 3:23 pm CFA

Will the RBI Solve the NPA Problem?

Five years ago, the All India Bank Officers’ Association, presented a presentation to our Bank Management titled NPA-Never Permit an Avalanche. This helped a lot to reduce NPAs of smaller amount but the large...

Read more November 26, 2017 at 2:03 pm Thomas Franco

Forget lessons from the past, Arun Jaitley’s bank recapitalisation even buried a July audit report

Hailed as a “big-bang move” by bankers, the government’s plan to recapitalise public sector banks with Rs 2.1 lakh crores is deemed to hold magical powers that will help turn around their financial situations....

Read more November 5, 2017 at 6:14 am Joe Athialy

Monsoon session of the Parliament: An overview

Maju Varghese The Parliament met from July 17 to August 11, 2017. The election of the president and vice-president of India took place during this session. The new vice-president, M Venkaiah Naidu, presided over...

Read more September 1, 2017 at 6:35 pm CFA
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What You Won’t Hear at the World Bank’s Spring Meetings Next Week

The World Bank Group will host its 2018 Spring Meetings next week, bringing together representatives of governments, banking institutions,...

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The World Bank and IMF’s approach to social protection

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