......The choice of Bandhan and IDFC by the RBI as the first two to be granted bank licences among the 26 which had applied, has surprised many. Among those still waiting are biggies such as the Aditya Birla Group, the Reliance ADA Group, the Bajaj Group, the Shriram Group, L&T Finance, Indiabulls and LIC Housing. Why these two? "A question the regulator had been grappling with was how to avoid creating replicas of existing private sector banks," says a person who has been close to the process. In the last two decades, the RBI has cautiously allowed a dozen new banks to emerge, but of the seven which have survived - and whose share of deposits and lending in the entire banking sector is around 15 per cent - most are indeed clones of the banks which already existed, offering the same services. Given their background, Bandhan and IDFC are expected to be different.......
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