How the Banking Sector has been Destroyed in the Last 10 Years
The claim of the Prime Minister that the Banking Sector has become robust is not true if we analyse the facts and figures. On Jan 1 2015, Gyan Sangam 1 was organised in Pune...
A Dint on the PSB’s NPA Management
The global economy is in a downward trend, fueled by the 3rd wave of the pandemic. In India, the role of Public Sector Banks (PSB) who constitutes more than 65% of the banking system,...
Banking and Customer Rights
The banking sector has definitely come a long way since nationalisation, we still are many miles behind in our target of achieving a fully inclusive banking system. Do we have a banking system where...
Bank Nationalization Day: In Defense of Public Sector Banks
19th of July is marked as the bank nationalisation day, recognising the historical decision of the Indira Gandhi government to take control of private banks. It is not an exaggeration to say that the...
Why was the Nationalisation of Banks Necessary?
The Socio-political environment of the second half of 1960s reflected a sense of disenchantment in the growing inequalities spawned by the development process–a sense which was highlighted by a series of studies such as...
Business Correspondents: Modern Day Slavery in Banking Sector
As per RBI Data, as on March 2020 there were 5,41,175 business correspondents in villages and 6,35,046 business correspondents in urban areas. So there are 11,76,221 Customer Service Points covered by the business correspondents...
Challenges Before the Banking Sector Today
The Public Sector Banks have been facing challenges since 1991 with the so-called reform process. Starting from the Narasimhan Committee to P.J. Nayak Committee has recommended reducing Government share. They want banks to be...
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...
Is Forbearance the Original Sin?
Chapter 7 of Economic Survey dealing with the banking crisis strongly emphasizes that the continuation of the policy of forbearance followed in the wake of Global Financial Crisis (GFC) even after 2011 was the...
Infographics: Indian EXIM Bank
These infographics done masterfully by Kokila Bhattacharya give a holistic picture of the Indian Exim bank - the institution and impacts of the investments. This series of infographics effectively depict the reach of Exim...
Infrastructure Finance Update, August 2020
(Infrastructure Finance Update is a monthly feature by CFA on the infrastructure sector with focus on financing. The feature is based on the monitoring of trends in infrastructure space through news reports, media coverage,...