Public resources are scarce and need to be used well.
Today, banks are being asked to discover niche strengths and focus on them
Jaitley has made it a habit of giving soundbytes to the media like his predecessors on why RBI should cut interest rates
Bankers seem to be pleased with the government for keeping its promise of not interfering in operational matters, but are apprehensive about the intense scrutiny of their functioning.
Quarterly results of many of these banks show significant losses.
Advice to the new finance minister from former RBI governor Raghuram Rajan: 1. Clean up banks by reviving projects that can be revived after restructuring debt. 2. Improve governance and management at public sector banks. 3. De-risk banking by encouraging risk transfers to non-banks and the market. 4. Reduce the number and weight of government mandates for public sector banks, and for banks more generally.
Economy improving but long way to full recovery, says FSDC.
A Bank Investment Company to act as a holding company for state-owned banks would go a long way in minimising government interference and improving governance.
RBI data show one-fifth of all the infrastructure loans are stressed and the share of such loans in overall stressed assets is nearly a third.
The Governor, who completes one year in RBI on Wednesday, has stabilised the rupee and is getting a fix on inflation.
Poor governance, constant interference of promoters, opposition from unions and talks of being an acquisition target seen as main deterrents.
The government's step to curtail fiscal deficit is helping the central bank's monetary policy, Rajan said.
While the US is definitely recovering, Europe, Japan and, now, China are all going through another wave of what some fear could be a multi-year slowdown.
The meeting will be attended by all heads and EDs of public sector banks
'Public sector banks are like an extended arm of the government.' 'They rush to rescue certain sectors or they rush to invest in certain sectors to prop up the economy which the private banks don't.'
The incidence of corruption cases can be checked to a large extent if the suggestions already available with RBI and the government are taken seriously, says Shyamal Majumdar.
The year 2014-15 could well go as one of long-pending financial sector reforms, expected to have a lasting impact.
Several brokerage houses have given a year-end target of as high as 30,000 for the BSE bourse's benchmark Sensex, with fund managers telling investors not to redeem though the index is still only around 25,000.
We need a change in mindset, says the RBI Governor.
The three main regulators have different approaches to grievance redressal and different standards to stop harmful from coming pitched at the consumer.
Finance minister Arun Jaitley has delivered a Arun Jaitley delivered a bold, far sighted budget
Most expect the Budget to be path-breaking.
We still have time for this government to take action.
In an interview with Business Standard, Arundhati Bhattacharya says she expects stalled projects coming back on track in two quarters.
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