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The Reserve Bank of India, in 2015, issued a Master Circular on Wilful Defaulters, which starts with Introduction: “Pursuant to the instructions of the Central Vigilance Commission for collection of information on wilful defaults of Rs. 25 lakhs and above by RBI and dissemination to the reporting ba...

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February 7, 2020

Devidas Tuljapurakar

Impact of Global Crisis on the Indian Banking System

This impact is not only circumscribed to NPA. Overall, Indian banking is passing through one of the worst crisis in history. Since the last three years, banking in the public sector is almost stagnant. Of the 21 public sector banks, only two are showing profits In an increasingly interdependent fina...

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February 7, 2020

Ankit Agrawal

Ten Years After: Financial Crisis and its Relentless Impact

India’s vulnerability stems from two sources: rapid debt expansion that has increased the volume of doubtful debt and encouraged excess debt exposure in a set of corporates. And increased exposure to dollar debt, partly because of investment by foreign portfolio investors in debt markets and due to ...

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December 2, 2018

Sanjeev Chandorkar

Mainstreaming India’s Poor in Banking

My intent in this article is to flag off a set of relevant issues one will have to deal with while mainstreaming India’s poor in Banking. The article has five sections: (a) Providing a backdrop, (b) Arguing that mainstreaming poor is also in the interest of “mainstream” banking, (c...

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December 1, 2018

Ankit Agrawal

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is a Big Scam: P Sainath

The NDA government’s Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (The Prime Minister’s Crop Insurance Scheme) is a bigger scam than even the Rafale scam, claimed renowned journalist and farmers issue activist P. Sainath earlier this month. The veteran journalist, who has been covering rural distress over...

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November 9, 2018

CFA Admin

Conference on Global Financial Crisis: A Decade after Lehman

Conference on Global Financial Crisis: A Decade after Lehman December 3-4, 2018 Ambedkar International Centre, New Delhi This September marked the 10th year of the global financial crisis. A decade later, the world economy still feels the reverberations of the crisis. The attempts to re-stabilise an...

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February 7, 2020

Joe Athialy

Demonetisation: Lest we Forget

Changing goal posts has been a hallmark of the precariously conceived and insensitively implemented demonetisation, second anniversary of which was yesterday (Nov 8). Finance Minister who declared Nov 8 as Anti Black Money Day during the first anniversary did mention about that while blogging about ...

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November 5, 2018

Amy Howe

Court Quiet, but Potentially Skeptical, on Immunity for International Organisations

The Supreme Court heard oral argument this morning in a dispute over immunity for the International Finance Corporation, an international organization that makes loans to private businesses to finance projects in developing countries. The plaintiffs in the case, a group of farmers and fishermen, liv...

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February 7, 2020

Ankit Agrawal

Bank Merger: Debunking the Myth of “Too Big to Fail”

New Delhi, November 3, 2018: “The Union government is pushing through the merger of Public Sector Banks (PSBs) with a misplaced notion that fewer stronger banks will be “too big to fail”. It’s ironical that the news or bank merger was announced on the 10th anniversary of the fall of Lehman Br...

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November 6, 2018

Ankit Agrawal

People’s Movements Challenge World Bank Immunity in US Supreme Court

October 31, 2018, New Delhi.: The Supreme Court of the United States of America heard the oral arguments in the historic case filed by the villagers from Mundra, Gujarat against the absolute immunity granted to the International Organisations like World Bank, International Finance Corporation etc. W...

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The Gospel on Wilful Defaulters, According to RBI

Impact of Global Crisis on the Indian Banking System

Ten Years After: Financial Crisis and its Relentless Impact

Mainstreaming India’s Poor in Banking

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is a Big Scam: P Sainath

Conference on Global Financial Crisis: A Decade after Lehman

Demonetisation: Lest we Forget

Court Quiet, but Potentially Skeptical, on Immunity for International Organisations

Bank Merger: Debunking the Myth of “Too Big to Fail”

People’s Movements Challenge World Bank Immunity in US Supreme Court

The Gospel on Wilful Defaulters, According to RBI

Impact of Global Crisis on the Indian Banking System

Ten Years After: Financial Crisis and its Relentless Impact

Mainstreaming India’s Poor in Banking

Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana is a Big Scam: P Sainath

Conference on Global Financial Crisis: A Decade after Lehman

Demonetisation: Lest we Forget

Court Quiet, but Potentially Skeptical, on Immunity for International Organisations

Bank Merger: Debunking the Myth of “Too Big to Fail”

People’s Movements Challenge World Bank Immunity in US Supreme Court