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...
Along with the unbridled sanctioning of the flow of foreign funds to the country’s energy sector in the bid to be a major driving force in the global energy market (which falters often on...
Prof. C.P. Chandrashekhar looks into the assumptions behind the recent bank merger of Dena Bank, Vijaya Bank and Bank of Baroda, the long-term impact of it on public sector banks (PSBs), using merger as...
Last week, according to the media reports, the board of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) approved public-owned Life Insurance Corporation’s (LIC) proposal to increase its stake in the troubled public...
Financial analyst and journalist Sucheta Dalal said that the Indian banking system is at the verge of crisis, reeling under the mounting bad loans, caused by unfettered corporate loans. Referring to government’s announcement in...
According to recent news published on the Business Standard, the leading banks of India are designing a scheme for bailing out stressed assets in the power sector, which, as per the latest report of Parliamentary Standing Committee on...
The sudden ATM cash crunch in several States points to the government’s ham-handed approach to currency management and evokes suspicions of plans to weaken public sector banks. By PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI THE ghost of...
Public Statement | April 27, 2018 After Demonetisation, now the Cash Crunch in ATMs: Modi Government Wrecking Public Sector Banks and the Indian Economy A Joint Statement In the past few weeks, ATMs across...
Nearly 100 major groups and several prominent experts have attacked the NDA government for the manner in which the banks and economy are being wrecked due to the impact of demonetisation followed by the...
The war of words between the Finance Minister and RBI governor has steamed up with the Arvind Subramanian, Chief Economic Advisor, jumping in the fray attacking the Urjit Patel, RBI Governor, who commented, among...
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...
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.”...
Moumita Dutta, Joint Secretary, AIBOC, highlighted that RBI was also responsible for the scam. She asked, “What is the need of LoUs by RBI when the Buyer Credit already exists?” Emphasising that the Banks...
Nilotpal Basu of the Communist Party of India Marxist CPI(M) said that the crisis one is witnessing in the banking sector is a part of the larger crisis the country is facing on multiple...
“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...