Friday, October 4, 2013

Banking has truly become 24x7 locally and globally: RBI

Speech delivered by G Gopalakrishna, Executive Director, Reserve Bank of India at “Axis Champions Awards” on October 1, 2013 at Mumbai


......since technology speeds up ease of access of customers to service providers, enables easier communication and possibly also speeds up operations. However, there is an interesting and contrasting evidence that I choose to draw from one of the examples adduced by Shri G Padmanabhan, Executive Director in the Reserve Bank of India, who made a telling comment on the number of mobile banking accounts that had been opened in India. While the number seemed staggering and really impressive, a comparison with the number of bank accounts opened in India revealed that the former was but a relatively insignificant proportion of the latter........

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