Should SBI become the voice of the Government?
State Bank of India is a Public Sector Bank in which the Union Government holds a 54% share. It has to be independent, and it has acted independently in the past. For example, Mr...
Is the claim of Adani Group true? Who can clarify?
The Adani Group is taking all efforts to counter the opinion expressed in the recent CreditSights report, a subsidiary of Fitch Ratings, which said it remains “cautiously watchful” of the debt-funded expansion of the...
From People’s Bank to a Corporate Slave – Where is the SBI headed?
The recent deal between Adani Capital and the State Bank of India has raised eyebrows. State Bank of India was known as the people's bank, and it could rightly claim that it was 'the...
Insolvency of ‘Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code’ – Booklet
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code was brought in 2016 with a huge fan flare and was presented as a magic solution for the underlying problem of corporate bad loans. After 5 years, we can see...
IBC: Escape Route for Big Corporate ?
The then Finance Minister late Mr. Arun Jaitley & the present Finance Minister Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman used to say that IBC will prove to be a game changer. Indians are scared of stigma &...
Reserve Bank of India or the Richmen Bank of India?
RBI has been losing credibility since demonetisation. Its subsequent efforts like not intervening when Bank charges were increased, proposing banking licences to corporates which RBI all along opposed on well found principles, allowing more...
Loans to Corporates – It’s high time to implement the RBI decision of 2016
RBI announced in August 2016, that it will move to cap exposure of banks to large borrowers while also taking steps to deepen the Corporate Bond Market. RBI stated that starting from next fiscal year...
Banks Paying Heavily for Corporate Loan Waivers: RTI
Not Write offs, Corporate Loan Waivers Banks Recovered Only 10% Bad Loans After Writing Them Off !! According to an RTI response received from Reserve Bank of India, between 2014 and 2019 scheduled commercial...
Random Reflections- Is India’s Banking Sector Moving Towards a Melt Down and Financial Collapse?
Bank’s performance is always the reflection of the country’s economy. Though results are not out for the financial year 2019-20, analysis shows that many banks will be showing a huge loss. The last quarter...
Random Reflections-The Tamasha about Write off, Waive off and the Reality
When COVID-19 cases are increasing, people are waiting for relief package every day, states are begging the Centre for release of GST share, permit more loans, allow RBI to lend to states at repo...
India Needs Good Banks And Not Big Banks
More than 10,000 bank employees and officers from across the country marched from Ramlila Grounds to Parliament on September 15, 2017. They were marching to protest the anti-people banking reforms being implemented by successive...