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Insurance firms lure bank employees with iPhones, foreign jaunts, kickbacks to push sales

Driven by illegal incentives, bank executives compel their staff to sell insurance anyhow, with customers paying the pri...

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Bankers now favour clean energy over fossil fuel

Trends show the drift towards renewables has found new acceleration. India is at a crucial juncture on the climate chang...

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How they are Bleeding the Public Sector Banks & Road Ahead

Report of the webinar co-organized by All India Bank Officers Confederation and Centre for Financial Accountability on 2...

General Indian Economy Publications

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Fund with a heart

Banks need to fully assess the risks and engage with the local communities and seek free, prior and informed consent bef...

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Where people’s money should be spent? People’s Manifesto by Vikalp Sangam

Random Reflections Our country has a debt of $21.23 trillion (Rs.155.77 lakh crores in March 2023) estimated to increase...

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Financial Institutions look to step up infrastructure project financing

Infrastructure Finance Update – December 2023 In this month’s infrastructure update, the national and international fina...

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Election victory is a combination of many efforts – Loans are a major factor!

Random Reflections The five state election results are being analysed from various angles. Communal polarisation, EVM ma...

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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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A Decade of Write-Offs: How the Govt and Banks Failed to Tackle NPAs and Helped Big Corporations

Devidas Tuljapurakar The government has time and again stated that ‘write off’ does not mean relief to the borrower as r...

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Banks’ bad loans are at an all-time high! | The Money Trail

An RTI enquiry has revealed that the bad loans of banks are spiking like never before. The answer from RBI reveals t...

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February 6, 2024

Hemant Gairola

Insurance firms lure bank employees with iPhones, foreign jaunts, kickbacks to push sales

Driven by illegal incentives, bank executives compel their staff to sell insurance anyhow, with customers paying the price in the form of unwanted policies. Image Credits: Nithin Sethi Insurance companies lured employees of banks with expensive gifts, foreign jaunts and cash bribes to aggressively p...

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January 10, 2024

V RISHI KUMAR

Bankers now favour clean energy over fossil fuel

Trends show the drift towards renewables has found new acceleration. India is at a crucial juncture on the climate change pathway when it has to step up its renewable energy capacity while gradually weaning away from its dependency on fossil fuels. With renewable energy deployment costs moderating a...

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January 2, 2024

CFA Admin

How they are Bleeding the Public Sector Banks & Road Ahead

Report of the webinar co-organized by All India Bank Officers Confederation and Centre for Financial Accountability on 26th December 2023. On the 26th of December 2023, an online meeting was co-organized by the All India Bank Officers Confederation (AIBOC) and the Centre for Financial Accountability...

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January 1, 2024

Amitanshu Verma & Nancy Pathak

Fund with a heart

Banks need to fully assess the risks and engage with the local communities and seek free, prior and informed consent before investing in projects. What connects the neighbourhood bank with climate change, rising temperatures, and big dam-related disasters in the Himalayas? Banks often invest the mon...

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December 26, 2023

Thomas Franco

Where people’s money should be spent? People’s Manifesto by Vikalp Sangam

Random Reflections Our country has a debt of $21.23 trillion (Rs.155.77 lakh crores in March 2023) estimated to increase to Rs.172.50 lakh crores by March 2024. IMF has projected it to reach 100% of GDP by 2028 which the Union Government is disputing. In 2014, this debt was just Rs 53.11 lakh crore,...

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December 15, 2023

Gaurav Dwivedi

Financial Institutions look to step up infrastructure project financing

Infrastructure Finance Update – December 2023 In this month’s infrastructure update, the national and international financial institutions such as the ADB, JICA, AIIB and BoB are looking to increase project and policy financing for infrastructure projects. The measures also include launching of a ne...

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December 15, 2023

Thomas Franco

Election victory is a combination of many efforts – Loans are a major factor!

Random Reflections The five state election results are being analysed from various angles. Communal polarisation, EVM manipulation, and welfare schemes are the ones being discussed much more. After the UP Assembly elections, I wrote about how the banks helped BJP to win. No one had seriously looked ...

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May 29, 2024

CFA Admin

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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December 18, 2023

Devidas Tuljapurakar

A Decade of Write-Offs: How the Govt and Banks Failed to Tackle NPAs and Helped Big Corporations

Devidas Tuljapurakar The government has time and again stated that ‘write off’ does not mean relief to the borrower as recovery processes continue. But in practice, banks are compelled to forgo any hope of recovery. The minister of finance and corporate affairs Nirmala Sitaraman has time and again s...

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March 11, 2026

CFA Admin

Banks’ bad loans are at an all-time high! | The Money Trail

An RTI enquiry has revealed that the bad loans of banks are spiking like never before. The answer from RBI reveals that compared to FY 2004 to FY 2014, the last 9 years were the worst. Bad loans have multiplied at least 8 times. On the political front, this is a comparison between the UPA and ND...

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Insurance firms lure bank employees with iPhones, foreign jaunts, kickbacks to push sales

Bankers now favour clean energy over fossil fuel

How they are Bleeding the Public Sector Banks & Road Ahead

Fund with a heart

Where people’s money should be spent? People’s Manifesto by Vikalp Sangam

Financial Institutions look to step up infrastructure project financing

Election victory is a combination of many efforts – Loans are a major factor!

वित्तीय संस्थानों के लिए पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता

A Decade of Write-Offs: How the Govt and Banks Failed to Tackle NPAs and Helped Big Corporations

Banks’ bad loans are at an all-time high! | The Money Trail

Insurance firms lure bank employees with iPhones, foreign jaunts, kickbacks to push sales

Bankers now favour clean energy over fossil fuel

How they are Bleeding the Public Sector Banks & Road Ahead

Fund with a heart

Where people’s money should be spent? People’s Manifesto by Vikalp Sangam

Financial Institutions look to step up infrastructure project financing

Election victory is a combination of many efforts – Loans are a major factor!

वित्तीय संस्थानों के लिए पर्यावरण और सामाजिक जवाबदेही नीतियों की आवश्यकता

A Decade of Write-Offs: How the Govt and Banks Failed to Tackle NPAs and Helped Big Corporations

Banks’ bad loans are at an all-time high! | The Money Trail