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Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects t...

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वित्तीय संस्थानों के लिए पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता

वित्तीय संस्थानों में पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियां क्या हैं? ये वित्तीय संस्थानों को उनके द्वारा वित्त पोषित परि...

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Bank Unions AIBOC, AIBEA Oppose RBI’s Decision to Allow Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters

All India Bank Officers’ Confederation and All India Bank Employees Association, criticised the recent move by the Reser...

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RBI and its crucial policy impact on Govt Investments

Introduction When the economy slows down, the norms and policies of the government and the central bank must be more fle...

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Cost of Bank Mergers: The Need for a CAG Audit

Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have played a significant part in the country’s economic growth. The principles of nationaliz...

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Bank Nationalization Day: In Defense of Public Sector Banks

Statement warning against the privatization of banks Stop Privatisation! Democratise Banking! New Delhi, July 19, 2021: ...

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LIC IPO – Killing The Golden Goose

Life insurance forms a vibrant part of the financial sector and plays a vital role in the national economy. It mobil...

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Budget ‘Like Never Before’ – 2021 Budget Analysis

The 2021 budget was lauded as the one ‘like never before’. There was a lot of hype created around it, hailing it as the ...

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Internal Working Group of RBI recommends ownership of banks by industrial houses. Undoing Nationalization?

In November 2020, an Internal Working Group (IWG) of the RBI came out with a recommendation for allowing large corporat...

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सीमाओं से परे निवेश — भारतीय एक्सिम बैंक पर एक प्राथमिक रिपोर्ट

पिछले सैंतीस वर्षों से इंडियन एक्सिम बैंक सामान और सेवाओं के भारतीय आयातकों और निर्यातकों को वित्तीय सहायता दे रह...

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January 15, 2025

Amitanshu Verma

Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

Indian banks walked nonchalantly into the new year, their indifference as thick as the smoke from industrial projects they finance. Pollution levels soared, environmental concerns, and sometimes protests, were witnessed over big infra projects from Ladakh to Nicobar. Meanwhile, disasters like the T...

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May 29, 2024

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वित्तीय संस्थानों के लिए पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता

वित्तीय संस्थानों में पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियां क्या हैं? ये वित्तीय संस्थानों को उनके द्वारा वित्त पोषित परियोजनाओं के सामाजिक और पर्यावरणीय प्रभावों के लिए जवाबदेह बनाने के लिए तंत्र हैं। वास्तविक प्रावधान पर्यावरणीय और सामाजिक प्रभाव मूल्यांकन मानदंड, पारदर्शिता आवश्यकताओं और शिकायत नि...

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June 14, 2023

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Bank Unions AIBOC, AIBEA Oppose RBI’s Decision to Allow Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters

All India Bank Officers’ Confederation and All India Bank Employees Association, criticised the recent move by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow Banks/lenders to settle loans of wilful defaulters under compromise settlement. The unions said that the recently released RBI’s “framework for comp...

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January 27, 2022

Kannan Neelamegan

RBI and its crucial policy impact on Govt Investments

Introduction When the economy slows down, the norms and policies of the government and the central bank must be more flexible in order to facilitate easy recovery. Due to RBI’s stringent policies on the Investment portfolio, the affected banks have suffered significantly, aside from the poorly...

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October 19, 2021

Kannan Neelamegan

Cost of Bank Mergers: The Need for a CAG Audit

Public Sector Banks (PSBs) have played a significant part in the country’s economic growth. The principles of nationalization also contributed to the social banking character of the PSBs. This scenario has been changing since implementation of the new economic policies in the 90s. Three decades down...

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July 23, 2021

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Bank Nationalization Day: In Defense of Public Sector Banks

Statement warning against the privatization of banks Stop Privatisation! Democratise Banking! New Delhi, July 19, 2021: 19th of July is marked as the bank nationalisation day, recognising the historical decision of the Indira Gandhi government to take control of private banks. It is not an exaggerat...

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April 26, 2021

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LIC IPO – Killing The Golden Goose

Life insurance forms a vibrant part of the financial sector and plays a vital role in the national economy. It mobilizes small savings of the people, converts it into Capital, and makes this Capital available for our nation’s development. It sells a promise, not a product. When the business is s...

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February 18, 2025

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Budget ‘Like Never Before’ – 2021 Budget Analysis

The 2021 budget was lauded as the one ‘like never before’. There was a lot of hype created around it, hailing it as the ‘a budget to boost economic recovery’, one to ‘drive economic revival post Covid–19’, a ‘reformist budget’ and so on. The Finance Minister said a few weeks back that this bud...

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January 1, 2021

Ashish Kajla

Internal Working Group of RBI recommends ownership of banks by industrial houses. Undoing Nationalization?

In November 2020, an Internal Working Group (IWG) of the RBI came out with a recommendation for allowing large corporate and industrial houses to promote banks and permitting promoters to raise their stakes in the bank’s equity share capital from 15 per cent to 26 per cent. There was also a suggest...

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September 10, 2021

Madhavi Bansal

सीमाओं से परे निवेश — भारतीय एक्सिम बैंक पर एक प्राथमिक रिपोर्ट

पिछले सैंतीस वर्षों से इंडियन एक्सिम बैंक सामान और सेवाओं के भारतीय आयातकों और निर्यातकों को वित्तीय सहायता दे रहा है| एक्सिम बैंक का एक मुख्य उद्येश्य है कि वह निर्यात का समर्थन करे और उसे बढ़ावा दे| इसका अधिकांश काम डेवलपमेंट पार्टनरशिप एडमिनिस्ट्रेशन (डी पी ए) और विदेशी मामलों के मंत्रालय ...

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Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

वित्तीय संस्थानों के लिए पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता

Bank Unions AIBOC, AIBEA Oppose RBI’s Decision to Allow Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters

RBI and its crucial policy impact on Govt Investments

Cost of Bank Mergers: The Need for a CAG Audit

Bank Nationalization Day: In Defense of Public Sector Banks

LIC IPO – Killing The Golden Goose

Budget ‘Like Never Before’ – 2021 Budget Analysis

Internal Working Group of RBI recommends ownership of banks by industrial houses. Undoing Nationalization?

सीमाओं से परे निवेश — भारतीय एक्सिम बैंक पर एक प्राथमिक रिपोर्ट

Indian Banks and Environmental Accountability: A New Year of Complicity and Deception?

वित्तीय संस्थानों के लिए पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता

Bank Unions AIBOC, AIBEA Oppose RBI’s Decision to Allow Compromise Settlement for Wilful Defaulters

RBI and its crucial policy impact on Govt Investments

Cost of Bank Mergers: The Need for a CAG Audit

Bank Nationalization Day: In Defense of Public Sector Banks

LIC IPO – Killing The Golden Goose

Budget ‘Like Never Before’ – 2021 Budget Analysis

Internal Working Group of RBI recommends ownership of banks by industrial houses. Undoing Nationalization?

सीमाओं से परे निवेश — भारतीय एक्सिम बैंक पर एक प्राथमिक रिपोर्ट

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