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The Magic of Falling NPAs! | Finance Matters | 13 December 2024 | Editorial

A recent investigation by The Indian Express revealed that over 43% of the total non-performing assets (NPA) till March ...

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EMIs on loans for destroyed homes in Wayanad? Landslide of inequality: The cost of banking priorities

The Mepadi landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, July 30, 2024, is one of the largest in the country, in terms of debris flow of...

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A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

“Democracy is by the people, for the people, and of the people.”-Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA (1861-65) We...

General Random Reflections

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Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

A Critique of the Boston Consulting Group’s Report on Banking in India The Boston Consulting Group, an internation...

General Indian Economy Publications

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Loan Waiver to People Affected by Disaster – Wayanad and Beyond: Is it a Just Demand?

Random Reflections The government and banks, which write off crores of depositors’ money to benefit the wealthie...

General Random Reflections

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Statement to the multilateral development banks: Criteria for public investments in 100% renewable energy for climate, for people, for the planet.

In response to the urgent need for global climate action, the COP28 climate negotiations set a target to triple globa...

Coverage General Publications Renewable

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MUDRA loan numbers – Biggest jumla by the Finance Minister

In a recent interview with the press in the industrial town of South India, Coimbatore, the Finance Minister clarified t...

General Random Reflections

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To undo the deadly noose of loan apps, RBI’s occasional warnings won’t do

A new ecosystem based on loan apps has mushroomed across India’s financial landscape over a decade, preying on those aba...

Coverage Debt Crisis & NBFCs General Indian Economy

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Banks and Disaster Relief

With climate change, human interventions, unscientific development and greed, disasters are frequently happening in the...

General Random Reflections

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Where is My Interest Rate? | Unlocking banking for the people (Volume 1)

“What really was new was the trick of claiming Neo liberalism stripped away rules when much of what it was doing w...

General Indian Economy Publications

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December 17, 2024

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The Magic of Falling NPAs! | Finance Matters | 13 December 2024 | Editorial

A recent investigation by The Indian Express revealed that over 43% of the total non-performing assets (NPA) till March 2019, or Rs. 4.02 lakh crore, was accounted for by just 100 companies. According to data.gov, the NPAs have substantially reduced since then – from 9.07% in 2018-19 to 3.87%...

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December 16, 2024

Maju Varghese

EMIs on loans for destroyed homes in Wayanad? Landslide of inequality: The cost of banking priorities

The Mepadi landslide in Wayanad, Kerala, July 30, 2024, is one of the largest in the country, in terms of debris flow of nearly six million cubic meters—enough to fill 2,400 Olympic-sized swimming pools. The Landslide is considered the largest in terms of the debris volume. This is five times larger...

Coverage General Indian Economy

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November 26, 2024

Thomas Franco

A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

“Democracy is by the people, for the people, and of the people.”-Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the USA (1861-65) We claim to be the largest democracy. Are we? Two latest developments raise this question. The first is the support one individual, Gautam Adani, and his company could get to increas...

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November 5, 2024

CFA & AIBOC

Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

A Critique of the Boston Consulting Group’s Report on Banking in India The Boston Consulting Group, an international consulting firm, in its report titled ‘Banking for a Viksit Bharat’, released together with Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and Indian Banks&#...

General Indian Economy Publications

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October 31, 2024

Thomas Franco

Loan Waiver to People Affected by Disaster – Wayanad and Beyond: Is it a Just Demand?

Random Reflections The government and banks, which write off crores of depositors’ money to benefit the wealthiest, make a hue and cry when farmers or disaster-affected people demand loan waivers. Disasters occur frequently across the country, and they are only expected to increase due to...

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October 16, 2024

CFA Admin

Statement to the multilateral development banks: Criteria for public investments in 100% renewable energy for climate, for people, for the planet.

In response to the urgent need for global climate action, the COP28 climate negotiations set a target to triple global renewable energy capacity by 2030, demanding a significant transfer of public finance towards the expansion of clean energy systems. The Banking on Renewables campaign, supported...

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October 4, 2024

Thomas Franco

MUDRA loan numbers – Biggest jumla by the Finance Minister

In a recent interview with the press in the industrial town of South India, Coimbatore, the Finance Minister clarified to Mr Sundarraman, a reporter from The Indian Express, that according to the bank’s data available to her (which she cross-checked on her tablet), 49.5 crore MUDRA loans have ...

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September 11, 2025

Anirban Bhattacharya

To undo the deadly noose of loan apps, RBI’s occasional warnings won’t do

A new ecosystem based on loan apps has mushroomed across India’s financial landscape over a decade, preying on those abandoned by the formal banking sector. A survey conducted by LocalCircle from July 2020 to June 2022 showed that 14 per cent of those surveyed utilised instant loan applications. Wh...

Coverage Debt Crisis & NBFCs General Indian Economy

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September 10, 2024

Thomas Franco

Banks and Disaster Relief

With climate change, human interventions, unscientific development and greed, disasters are frequently happening in the country. As Dr P. Sainath writes in the title of his famous book, “Everybody Loves a Good Drought,” everyone except those who are directly affected loves a disaster. T...

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September 10, 2024

CFA & AIBOC

Where is My Interest Rate? | Unlocking banking for the people (Volume 1)

“What really was new was the trick of claiming Neo liberalism stripped away rules when much of what it was doing was imposing new rules that favoured banks and the wealthy. For instance, the so called deregulation of the banks got government temporarily out of the way which allowed bankers to ...

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The Magic of Falling NPAs! | Finance Matters | 13 December 2024 | Editorial

EMIs on loans for destroyed homes in Wayanad? Landslide of inequality: The cost of banking priorities

A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

Loan Waiver to People Affected by Disaster – Wayanad and Beyond: Is it a Just Demand?

Statement to the multilateral development banks: Criteria for public investments in 100% renewable energy for climate, for people, for the planet.

MUDRA loan numbers – Biggest jumla by the Finance Minister

To undo the deadly noose of loan apps, RBI’s occasional warnings won’t do

Banks and Disaster Relief

Where is My Interest Rate? | Unlocking banking for the people (Volume 1)

The Magic of Falling NPAs! | Finance Matters | 13 December 2024 | Editorial

EMIs on loans for destroyed homes in Wayanad? Landslide of inequality: The cost of banking priorities

A Government without Accountability? Is it a death of Democracy already?

Wrong Diagnosis & Misplaced Priorities

Loan Waiver to People Affected by Disaster – Wayanad and Beyond: Is it a Just Demand?

Statement to the multilateral development banks: Criteria for public investments in 100% renewable energy for climate, for people, for the planet.

MUDRA loan numbers – Biggest jumla by the Finance Minister

To undo the deadly noose of loan apps, RBI’s occasional warnings won’t do

Banks and Disaster Relief

Where is My Interest Rate? | Unlocking banking for the people (Volume 1)