Tuesday, June 4, 2013

RBI Fails to Clear Air, Won’t Issue Bank Licences to All

......... The regulator declined to say by when the next bank will be born. The central bank has also poured cold water on hopes of regulatory forbearance on liquidity requirements for finance firms such as IDFC, which are planning to convert into banks. The 165-page clarification on new bank guidelines posted on RBI’s website failed to define the two key measures on which it would grant a bank licence — ‘fit and proper’ persons, and businesses ‘misaligned with the banking model’..................

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