Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Tread cautiously on new bank licences

......The more likely answer would be “local area banks” (LABs), which by definition are limited to specified geographical areas, and can therefore give more intensive and concentrated help to weaker sections in those areas. So if four new banks are to be given licences, at least two of them should be for LABs. The Raghuram Rajan Committee’s suggestion that preference be given to small and medium-sized entities might be a good idea, though the RBI has kept this in abeyance as some of them may not be able to meet the capital requirements specified by the RBI.......

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