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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 12:30 AM | November 16,2009
In three most critical areas of reforms, the onus is on the government to change the rules of the game
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 08:38 PM | November 08,2009
The new chairman often wants to tell the world, “I’m here holding the can” and embarks on a clean-up drive immediately after taking up the assignment. It is another matter that the incumbent retires one day and may repeat his predecessor’s exercise
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Tamal Bandyopadhyay and Anup Roy 01:15 AM | November 03,2009
Decision to strengthen its gold reserves follows similar moves by central banks of some other countries
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 10:09 PM | November 01,2009
The root of the problem is not lack of transparency in loan pricing, but the fact that banks are giving loans to a majority of their customers at below BPLR
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Tamal Bandyopadhyay and Anil Penna 12:34 AM | October 28,2009
Pleasing the government is not on the agenda and not on the radar screen because 80% of the government’s borrowing programme is done
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 12:21 AM | October 28,2009
The central bank’s urgency to tighten its policy is evident from the dramatic shift in its stance--from supporting growth to managing inflation
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 01:40 AM | October 26,2009
Is the time ripe for a rate increase or tightening of liquidity? The Australian central bank has already done this. Will the RBI follow suit?
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 10:11 PM | October 18,2009
Under the new norms, a firm is deemed Indian-owned only if Indians own more than half its equity capital and control its management
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 09:12 PM | October 11,2009
Parekh’s vision for HDFC has all along been to make it the GE Capital of India
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 10:01 PM | October 04,2009
Even if the government sticks to its plan of raising Rs4.51 trillion from the market, it puts tremendous pressure on the banking system
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 10:32 PM | September 27,2009
Th e Indian banks in United Kingdom are trying hard to reach out to the Indian community at Southall, Wembley, Birmingham, Harrow, Slough, Ilford and Leicester
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 09:55 PM | September 20,2009
Theoretically, all such banks are board driven, but the finance ministry often plays the role of a super board and a “weak” CEO is always susceptible to government pressures
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Tamal Bandyopadhyay and Anita Bhoir 11:10 PM | September 15,2009
ICICI Bank chief Chanda Kochhar recalls the challenging days when its customers rushed to withdraw their cash, fearing its imminent collapse on 15 September 2008
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Tamal Bandyopadhyay 01:15 AM | September 15,2009
The excess inflow of capital in 2007-08 of almost 10% of GDP, about $100 billion, was totally unprecedented, as was the subsequent reversal in 2008-09
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Tamal Bandyopadhyay 11:05 PM | September 14,2009
YV Reddy, former governor of the RBI, sees a problem in the G-20 agenda. To make the global financial system more stable may not be easy, as it will change the existing balances and the US and the UK may not like that to happen
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