RBI is the regulator and supervisor of the monetary system. Its objectives are, to maintain public confidence in the system, protect depositors’ interests and provide cost-effective banking services to the public. Its roles are...
The quarter 2 results of the public sector banks are noteworthy compared to a few years ago. All these banks showed good profits in the financial year 2021-22. Twelve PSBs made a net profit...
“In my entire career as a public servant I haven't witnessed the extraction of public wealth for private profit on the scale that we see today”, said Jawhar Sircar, Rajya Sabha member, Trinamool Congress,...
Everything that can go wrong is going wrong with the big-ticket “reform” Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) of 2016, which was sold as the panacea for stressed asset resolutions (NPAs).
ABG Shipyard was incorporated on 15th March 1985 as a ship building and repair business in Gujarat with an office in Mumbai. Its Chairman as well as Managing Director is Rishi Kamlesh Agarwal and...
From 1991 with the debut of neoliberal policies we have followed the dictates of IMF, the World Bank, the Financial Stability Board (of G-20) and now even the World Economic Forum.
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,...
The Union Government has announced setting up of a Bad Bank (the name itself is bad), called the National Asset Reconstruction Company Ltd (NARCL). It will buy loans above Rs.500 crores from the banks....
The infrastructure sector is one of the key sectors for India to achieve higher economic growth rates and requires major investments into projects to push the growth rates higher. The infrastructure sector requires long-term...
In January 2018, the Government of India launched EASE 1.0. It was developed by Boston Consultancy Group (BCG), a multinational consultant with no experience in banking at all, and it is still run by...
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman recently tweeted- “The Primary reason for PSBs to post such as Rs.57832 Crore turn around – from a loss of Rs.26016 Crore in 2019-2020 to a combined profit of Rs....
A law called “The insolvency and bankruptcy code (IBC) 2016” was enacted in the parliament in May 2016 apparently to recover the mounting Non-Performing Asset (NPA) from the corporate sector. This law enables the...
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...
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...
On 24th March, 2020, the Prime Minister of India has declared the nationwide lockdown due to global widespread of Covid 19. As a result, the entire businesses, works, and economy have shut down leading to...