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A Case of Missing the Wood for the Trees: Analysis of Budget 2020

The budget missed an opportunity to fix the economy, which is reeling under an unprecedented slowdown, with all indices pointing towards a recession. This was one of the much-anticipated budget, given that the country...

Read more February 1, 2020 at 5:39 pm CFA

Random Reflections: Banking in Crisis and Bank Staff in Crisis

Banking in India is in crisis for some time since 2014, and there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel. One crucial problem in the banking industry is the problems...

Read more January 7, 2020 at 5:48 pm Thomas Franco

Random Reflections: One more attack on the Farmers by the Govt! No more Agriculture Gold Loans

The Finance Department has informed the Banks that there will not be any interest subsidy for Gold Loans given to Farmers (Refer Circular of SBI No.1370 / 2019-20 dated 24.12.2019). In 2006-07 Budget speech,...

Read more January 1, 2020 at 12:25 pm Thomas Franco

Communalising Banks

“Religion cannot be a marker for availing banking services and this amendment should immediately be withdrawn by RBI” a statement issued by around 50 civil society organisations and concerned citizens said. This is in...

Read more January 1, 2020 at 11:58 am CFA

Random Reflections: Corruption in banks, in the name of cross-selling – Who will bell the cat?

In the name of making banks into supermarkets, providing all financial services, cross-selling was permitted by RBI and the government in the banking industry. Life insurance policies, general insurance policies, mutual funds etc are...

Read more December 25, 2019 at 8:44 pm Thomas Franco

Challenges to India’s Fiscal Federalism

Fiscal Federalism is in danger, which can lead to further economic crisis stated Dr. Thomas Issac Finance Minister of Kerala at a National Workshop at Pondicherry. The GST due to states is not given...

Read more November 23, 2019 at 5:40 pm Thomas Franco

Road Paved for FRDI 2.0

The announcement by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman yesterday (Nov 15) that the government is planning to increase the deposit guarantee limit from the existing Rs 1 lakh is a confirmation of the rumours/reports going around for some...

Read more November 17, 2019 at 4:10 pm Joe Athialy

Deutsche Bank on Verge of Collapse – Lessons for State Bank of India: Random Reflections

Deutsche Bank AG was one of the largest Banks in the world (it was ranked largest before Chinese Banks replaced it). The Bank on a verge of collapse due to internal scandals has sent...

Read more November 16, 2019 at 10:53 am Thomas Franco

3 Years of Demonetisation: Lest we Forget

On the 3rd anniversary of demonetisation, which wrecked the economy from which India is yet to recover, put people in insurmountable misery and for which nobody is held accountable yet, a small video capturing the...

Read more November 9, 2019 at 4:07 pm Nishank

Random Reflections: Three Years of Demonetization – Where is the Black Money?

On Nov 8th, 2016 the Prime Minister told the citizens that “For years, this country has felt that corruption, black money and terrorism are festering sores, holding us back in the race towards development.”...

Read more November 8, 2019 at 9:11 am Thomas Franco

Random Reflections: Losing Faith in the Banking System is Dangerous

More than a month of waiting for 16 lakh depositors is leading to a dangerous position of loss of faith in banks. The Cooperative banks have more than 13 crore small depositors. RBI has...

Read more November 2, 2019 at 7:21 pm Thomas Franco

Random Reflections: What next in Banking Sector? Will the Trade Unions work together?

On 22nd Oct, AIBEA and BEFI went on strike against merger of Banks. Did anybody care? Sad that all Unions and Associatious objecting merger did not fight together. The Banking Sector Trade Unions in...

Read more October 26, 2019 at 6:54 pm Thomas Franco

People over business – Why Ease of Doing Business hurt people and environment 

In the last week, we saw two indices, which were released globally. One on hunger and another on Ease of Doing Business. India slipped from 95th position to 102nd position out of 117 countries...

Read more October 26, 2019 at 4:46 pm Maju Varghese

Random Reflections by Thomas Franco

Lessons from the Nobel Prize in Economics After Dr. Amartya Sen received Nobel Prize for Development Economics, Abhijit Banerjee, an Indian has become the winner of Nobel on Economics along with his wife Esther...

Read more October 18, 2019 at 3:25 pm Thomas Franco

Proposed Mergers of PSU Banks: “Big” Banks Needed to Serve “Big” Corporates.

On August 30th 2019 Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced collapsing of 10 Public Sector Banks in 4 Banks. A lot has been said about what will be the impact of this decision on NPA...

Read more October 18, 2019 at 12:13 pm Sanjeev Chandorkar
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