Entrusted with the responsibility of tightening regulation and supervision in global banks that suffered huge losses - now estimated at over $1 trillion -- during the last one year, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has embarked on a series of measures to ensure proper regulation within banks. It has suggested forward-looking risk assessment by banks to avoid financial crises in future.
'The approach today is, instead of giving loans to 100 MSMEs, let us give one loan to a big-ticket corporate.' 'And so many of these big fish deceived the banks and the banks are in the doldrums now with high NPAs.'
RBI moves to restrict bank exposure to corporate loans.
'The CEO will neither be able to guide the senior team in operational matters nor decide on their appointment, compensation or removal.' 'Yet, the CEO is responsible for the profit and loss of the bank!' 'Why would the senior executives listen to him?' 'Which self-respecting professional would want to be a CEO with these constraints?' asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Is the RBI unable to accept with grace that beyond 55, one can have the ability to head the compliance functions in a bank, asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
'China's investment destination image the world over has taken a beating, therefore investors feel India is a safe haven for investments.' 'FDI is at an all-time high in India.' 'Now after such poor ratings, this FDI amount will fall.' 'Therefore, I am saying these things are happening at China's behest.'
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) plans to impose stricter limits on how much a bank can lend to a single corporate group, a move aimed at curbing risk in the banking sector at a time when bad loans are on the rise.
Two straight years of less than 5 percent economic expansion have led to a surge in bad loans for Indian lenders.
'The new ceiling will cover around 93 per cent of all deposit accounts, up from 90 per cent earlier,' notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The RBI now brings in important and contentious changes directly through voluminous Master Directions, or Master Circulars
PS banks need to pull up their socks to improve cash flows.
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