Lock down and suspension of public transport services has been announced by many Local authorities/State Governments  to curtail the spread of  COVID 19 across various geographies. Keeping this in view , after due deliberation, it is suggested that Member Banks may selectively keep their branches open at such locations after due consult...

The Government has given ‘in-principle’ approval for Privatisation of 24 CPSEs including Subsidiaries, Units and Joint Ventures with sale of majority stake and transfer of management control....

Union Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has approved to amend the extant FDI Policy to permit Foreign Investment (s) in M/s Air India Ltd by NRIs, who are Indian Nationals, upto to 100% under automatic route....

Cabinet approves Mega Consolidation in Public Sector Banks {PSBs} with effect from 1.4.2020. Government transforms PSB landscape with consolidation of ten PSBs into four with effect from 1.4.2020. Amalgamations to enable creation of digitally driven consolidated banks with global heft and business synergies....

The Finance Minister has repeatedly assured Bankers that adequate measures would be taken to protect honest commercial decisions taken by them and distinction would be made between genuine commercial failures and culpability....

. Government has issued Framework for timely detection, reporting, investigation etc. relating to large value bank frauds to Public Sector Banks (PSBs) for systemic and comprehensive checking of legacy stock of their non-performing assets (NPAs), which provides, inter-alia, that—...

CBI has registered around 42 cases of bank frauds involving Rs. 7200 crore (approx.). The banks involved (including consortium members) are Andhra Bank, Oriental Bank of Commerce, Indian Overseas Bank, SBI, Allahabad Bank, Canara Bank, Dena Bank, Punjab & Sind Bank, Punjab National Bank, Central Bank of India, Union Bank of India, IDBI Ba...

RBI vide its order dated 23rd September, 2019 superseded the Board of Punjab and Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Ltd. Mumbai and Shri Jai Bhagwan Bhoria has been appointed as the Administrator of the bank by RBI with all the powers of the Board....

Reserve Bank of India Draft Guidelines for ‘on tap’ Licensing of Small Finance Banks in the Private Sector September 13, 2019 I. Introduction The Reserve Bank had issued the Guidelines for Licensing of ‘Small Finance Banks‘ in  the Private Sector on November 27, 2014. The process of licensing culminated in granting in-pri...

The forex market is unique in several ways. A foreign currency is essentially a commodity outside its jurisdiction and therefore has attributes of an asset. But the exchange rate, the price of the foreign currency normalised to the home currency is an important macroeconomic variable that ought to be determined by economic fundamentals an...