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In the shadows of a debt crisis: A closer look at how IL&FS episode unfolded and impacted the larger economy

India Inc. is now officially facing an economic slowdown. But economic slowdowns aren’t made overnight. This has been in...

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Report: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: Whose Loss, Whose Gain?

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), once hailed as the panacea of all ills plaguing bad debt of corporations and for q...

National Financial Institutions NFIs NPAs Publications

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The Budget Presents Government’s Myopic Vision on the Banking Sector

The first budget of the newly re-elected government was placed on July 5, 2019, by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharam...

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Lots of Grey Shades in Government’s Green Push

NAGPUR: Though not as green as the BJP’s pre-election manifesto, the Union budget presented on Friday promised ‘Gree...

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IL&FS Scam: Govt Still Continues to Pay Back MDBs Behind IL&FS Dubious Rise

Centre for Financial Accountability raised concerns over the future risk for government exchequer by pointing out the ne...

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AIIB: A Multilateral Bank Where China Sets The Rules

The AIIB has developed into a major player in the global financial architecture in record time: It first became operatio...

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Snippets from the World of National Financial Institutions – May, 2019

More NPAs to haunt banks with IL&FS Exposures: The NCLT has asked the banks to consider their exposure to ILFS as NP...

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CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

Criticising the latest Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) annual Banking Ombudsman Report, which revealed dissatisfacti...

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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...

Bank Charges National Financial Institutions NFIs

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Small Finance Banks Are Squeezing the Common Man: CP Krishnan

“Modi government has granted licenses to 20 small finance banks. The successive central governments have undermine...

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September 13, 2019

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In the shadows of a debt crisis: A closer look at how IL&FS episode unfolded and impacted the larger economy

India Inc. is now officially facing an economic slowdown. But economic slowdowns aren’t made overnight. This has been in the offing for almost a year now. On 23 June 2019, the Reserve Bank of India’s deputy governor Viral Acharya handed in his resignation. Just a few months before he resigned, Achar...

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September 13, 2019

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Report: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: Whose Loss, Whose Gain?

Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), once hailed as the panacea of all ills plaguing bad debt of corporations and for quick recovery of outstanding loans from them, has been in operations for a while now. What we have seen is, on the one hand, large corporates wriggling out of bad debts lightly and...

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February 7, 2020

Ashish Kajla

The Budget Presents Government’s Myopic Vision on the Banking Sector

The first budget of the newly re-elected government was placed on July 5, 2019, by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The budget failed to address the real problems of the economy like unemployment, agrarian crisis, healthcare, and debt-ridden banking sector. Economists have also pointed out t...

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July 15, 2019

Times of India

Lots of Grey Shades in Government’s Green Push

NAGPUR: Though not as green as the BJP’s pre-election manifesto, the Union budget presented on Friday promised ‘Green Mother Earth and blue skies’. The high point was the boost given to electric vehicles for ensuring an environment-friendly public transport system. “A thrust towards electric veh...

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July 14, 2021

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IL&FS Scam: Govt Still Continues to Pay Back MDBs Behind IL&FS Dubious Rise

Centre for Financial Accountability raised concerns over the future risk for government exchequer by pointing out the nexus of Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), National Infrastructure Investment Fund (NIIF), Abu Dhabi Investment Authority and IL&FS Highlighting the demand for due-dil...

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May 30, 2019

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AIIB: A Multilateral Bank Where China Sets The Rules

The AIIB has developed into a major player in the global financial architecture in record time: It first became operational in January 2016, and as it completes its third anniversary in 2019, the Beijing-based institution counts 70 member states with a further 23 countries seeking to join. Two of th...

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June 14, 2019

Priya Dharshini

Snippets from the World of National Financial Institutions – May, 2019

More NPAs to haunt banks with IL&FS Exposures: The NCLT has asked the banks to consider their exposure to ILFS as NPAs. Earlier NCLT has restricted banks from declaring their exposure to IL&FS prompting the RBI to send circular asking banks to declare them as NPA. Early this NCLT changed its...

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September 13, 2019

Ankit Agrawal

CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

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

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Small Finance Banks Are Squeezing the Common Man: CP Krishnan

“Modi government has granted licenses to 20 small finance banks. The successive central governments have undermined the significance of the public sector banks. Granting license to small finance banks is [done in order] to loot the customers. These banks are not serving the poor. Rather, they ...

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In the shadows of a debt crisis: A closer look at how IL&FS episode unfolded and impacted the larger economy

Report: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: Whose Loss, Whose Gain?

The Budget Presents Government’s Myopic Vision on the Banking Sector

Lots of Grey Shades in Government’s Green Push

IL&FS Scam: Govt Still Continues to Pay Back MDBs Behind IL&FS Dubious Rise

AIIB: A Multilateral Bank Where China Sets The Rules

Snippets from the World of National Financial Institutions – May, 2019

CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

Don’t Fleece the Poor

Small Finance Banks Are Squeezing the Common Man: CP Krishnan

In the shadows of a debt crisis: A closer look at how IL&FS episode unfolded and impacted the larger economy

Report: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code: Whose Loss, Whose Gain?

The Budget Presents Government’s Myopic Vision on the Banking Sector

Lots of Grey Shades in Government’s Green Push

IL&FS Scam: Govt Still Continues to Pay Back MDBs Behind IL&FS Dubious Rise

AIIB: A Multilateral Bank Where China Sets The Rules

Snippets from the World of National Financial Institutions – May, 2019

CSOs Criticise RBI for not having a guideline on Bank Charges

Don’t Fleece the Poor

Small Finance Banks Are Squeezing the Common Man: CP Krishnan