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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 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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Banker’s Trust | Tamal Bandyopadhyay 01:15 AM | September 14,2009
While RBI was slightly late in waking up to the new reality after the Lehman collapse, one must give the regulator credit for sensing trouble ahead of others and ringfencing banks from the global turmoil
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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 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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