Within two months, three weeks, and five days of the Nachiket Mor panel glorifying IDFC for proving its mettle as a differentiated bank in a shaky Indian banking industry, its chairman Rajiv Lall was told his company has been granted the licence to convert it into a full-fledged commercial bank. Soon after granting the licence to IDFC, and micro-lender Bandhan Financial Services, Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan said the industry is on the cusp of a transformation in the form of differentiated and ‘on-tap’ banking licences. Going by the two signposts of India’s current financial system — Rajan and Mor — the country could soon have, at least theoretically, 10 different types of banks, serving various constituencies — from retail to infrastructure. Does that mean that scores of new banks are a panacea to all the economic ills?.....
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