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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 10:14 PM | November 22,2009
Just because India’s capital market regulator is not sensitive enough to the wishful market-moving statements, bank bosses should not compete with each other in fantasizing about who will take over whom
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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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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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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 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 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 10:58 PM | September 06,2009
RBI insiders find him a central banker who is ‘down to earth’ and ‘open to ideas’. They have not seen too many governors walking into deputy governors’ offices at RBI headquarters
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 10:01 PM | August 30,2009
This is the first time that two Indian banks feature among the top 100 banks in the world in terms of tier I capita
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhay 10:56 PM | August 23,2009
Banks should be allowed to sell rural branches to foreign banks and swap with local counterparts
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 01:15 AM | August 17,2009
Once corporations start accessing bank credit, banks will have a different problem; excess liquidity will be soaked and interest rates will rise
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 01:15 AM | August 10,2009
Nearly 80% of the population is without life, health, non-life insurance cover
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 09:52 PM | August 02,2009
Loan recast on a large scale is a new phenomenon, but Indian banks have been restructuring corporate loans for quite some time now through a mechanism called corporate debt restructuring
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 08:59 PM | July 05,2009
Bank stocks are a proxy for the broader economy and investors tend to bet on banks when the outlook for growth is bright as expansion of credit is essential to support growth and this means higher income for banks
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 01:15 AM | June 15,2009
Possibly the bureaucrats at the finance ministry, involved in the movement of files from one department to another, know the answer
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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 12:38 AM | June 08,2009
Instead, he should focus on efficiency and scale. He can push for consolidation since the new government does not need the crutches of the Left parties that traditionally oppose mergers of banks for fear of job losses
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