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Criticising the latest Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual Banking Ombudsman Report, which revealed dissatisfaction among 25 per cent customers, Financial Accountability Network (FAN India), has issued a public statement chiding RBI for being silent and not even issuing a guideline despite ha...

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September 13, 2019

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Don’t Fleece the Poor

Banks act as financial intermediaries between depositors and borrowers. It is the public money, deposited in the form of term deposit (fixed deposits) and time deposit (saving and current accounts) which banks use for lending to borrowers. Since public money is important for the banking sector, bank...

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March 11, 2026

Priya Dharshini

The Crisis In The Banking Sector Is A Created One: Priya Dharshini

The crisis in the banking sector is a created one, where the commercial banks have been forced to lend on a large scale to the development projects and to the corporates and which has today created an NPA of approx 8 lakh crores. Since 2015, NPAs have been increasing and today they threaten the sur...

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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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August 13, 2018

Ankit Agrawal

Bank Frauds and Risk Management in India

After the spate of bank frauds came into the light, the parliamentarians raised this issue in the ongoing session of the parliament. Answering the question in the Lok Sabha, on July 20, 2018, on the bank frauds committed in the last five years in India, Shiv Pratap Shukla, Minister of State (Finance...

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August 5, 2018

Ashish Kajla

Is Ownership Neutrality A Step Towards Privatisation?

The privatisation of public sector banks has been an issue of debate for a long time. Economic experts are again talking about privatisation of public sector banks (PSBs) due to current non-performing assets (NPAs) crisis. The ever-increasing size of NPAs in public sector banks has finally forced RB...

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July 28, 2018

Sanjeev Chandorkar

Finance Capital: The New “Demi-God”

‘God” is believed to have two strengths, viz., “he is omnipresent” and “he is the creator, reshaper and destroyer of everything around us”. “Finance Capital” is fast acquiring both these “strengths” Believers in “God” believe th...

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July 16, 2018

Ankit Agrawal

LIC Rakes in Money Because of over 25 Crore Policyholders

Last week, according to the media reports, the board of the Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India (IRDAI) approved public-owned Life Insurance Corporation’s (LIC) proposal to increase its stake in the troubled public sector bank Industrial Development Bank of India (IDBI) by invest...

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March 11, 2026

CFA Admin

Sucheta Dalal on the Growing Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector

Financial analyst and journalist Sucheta Dalal said that the Indian banking system is at the verge of crisis, reeling under the mounting bad loans, caused by unfettered corporate loans. Referring to government’s announcement in the Parliament that Rs. 2.4 lakh crore bad loans are written off, she sa...

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June 19, 2018

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Government-owned Banks in India Financed More Coal than RE in 2017

June 19, 2018 – A new analysis of energy project lending shows that majority of government owned banks and financial institutions continued to fund coal projects in 2017. The same analysis also reveals private financial companies are comparatively investing more in renewable energy (RE) projec...

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CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

Don’t Fleece the Poor

The Crisis In The Banking Sector Is A Created One: Priya Dharshini

Mainstreaming India’s Poor in Banking

Bank Frauds and Risk Management in India

Is Ownership Neutrality A Step Towards Privatisation?

Finance Capital: The New “Demi-God”

LIC Rakes in Money Because of over 25 Crore Policyholders

Sucheta Dalal on the Growing Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector

Government-owned Banks in India Financed More Coal than RE in 2017

CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

Don’t Fleece the Poor

The Crisis In The Banking Sector Is A Created One: Priya Dharshini

Mainstreaming India’s Poor in Banking

Bank Frauds and Risk Management in India

Is Ownership Neutrality A Step Towards Privatisation?

Finance Capital: The New “Demi-God”

LIC Rakes in Money Because of over 25 Crore Policyholders

Sucheta Dalal on the Growing Crisis in the Indian Banking Sector

Government-owned Banks in India Financed More Coal than RE in 2017

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