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Systematically killing public sector banks: Pushing away people to money sharks

It was only after the nationalisation of 14 banks on July 19, 1969, that the banks reached the common people. The main changes that were done included a shift from class banking to mass...

Read more January 23, 2023 at 6:53 pm CFA

Why are Public Sector Banks performing better?

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...

Read more November 15, 2022 at 3:24 pm Thomas Franco

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...

Read more October 18, 2022 at 4:46 pm Thomas Franco

KYC – Kill Your Customer?

Last year, a retired scientist received a call purportedly from SBI informing him that his account is blocked for non-compliance of KYC. They sent him a password to be shared with the caller. He...

Read more August 17, 2022 at 10:56 am Thomas Franco

Is SBI getting Privatised?

Arvind Panagariya and Poonam Gupta have come up with a demand that all public sector banks except the State Bank of India should be privatised.

Read more July 25, 2022 at 12:58 pm Thomas Franco

Has the SBI become too big to govern?

'The rot within' is the title of an article of Ms. Purnima. S. Tripathi, wrote in the Frontline magazine, in its March 25, 2022 issue. The article further states – 'State Bank of India,...

Read more March 25, 2022 at 5:09 pm Thomas Franco

Behind the ABG Shipyard fraud, a system that lets big firms gamble with savings of ordinary people

As the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday registered a case of money laundering against Gujarat-based ABG Shipyard based on the complaint of the State Bank of India, the company has been described as being involved in “India’s biggest...

Read more February 22, 2022 at 5:24 pm Ashish Kajla

ABG Shipyard Scam- Need for Accountability and Overhaul of the System

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...

Read more February 18, 2022 at 6:07 pm Thomas Franco

GoI selling PSUs to ‘dubious’ investors amidst rising inequality, unemployment

In its reckless privatisation drive, the Government of India (GoI) is selling the Central Electronics Limited (CEL) to Nandal Finance & Leasing Private Limited, a Non-Banking Financial Corporation (NBFC) with a dubious record, owned by a...

Read more February 9, 2022 at 6:05 pm Ashish Kajla

The largest bank in the country cannot be anti-women!

State Bank of India has announced changes in the recruitment policy, which have come under valid criticism. How can SBI, which should be a model employer, become a guinea pig for wrong policies?

Read more January 28, 2022 at 1:21 pm Thomas Franco

Govt continues its reckless selling of PSUs amidst rising inequality & unemployment

In its reckless privatisation drive, the union government is selling Central Electronics Limited (CEL) to Nandal Finance & Leasing Private Limited, an NBFC with a dubious record, owned by a furniture company, with less...

Read more January 28, 2022 at 12:03 pm Ashish Kajla

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...

Read more December 8, 2021 at 4:18 pm Thomas Franco

Mr Rajnish Kumar’s Book Raises More Questions Than Answers- Part 1

The book is worth reading to know how the public sector banks, the RBI and the Ministry of Finance deal with banking. How they create a crisis and try to manage it. I am...

Read more November 2, 2021 at 12:38 pm Thomas Franco

SBI- A Guinea Pig for Neo-liberal Policies

The union government is bent upon privatising the Life Insurance Corporation of India. They stealthily announced an amendment to the LIC Act by making a statement in the Union Budget 2021 and made it...

Read more October 11, 2021 at 5:52 pm Thomas Franco

Are the Employees of Public Sector Banks Overexploited?

Newton Kumar who is known on Twitter as @idesibanda has compiled data on the banks’ business and employee strength based on annual reports of the banks. The data on number of customers per employee...

Read more July 5, 2021 at 2:10 pm Thomas Franco
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