Wednesday, July 3, 2013

New Banks: Discourage Any Bet on Rules Change

...........The Indian ‘License Raj’ landscape has been full of changing goal posts and favouritism in the name of course correction with changes in rules to tailor the needs of businesses — be it the US cola companies, which were permitted with a clause on mandatory public shareholding, or scores of power companies, which are obliged with changes in tariff structure, or usage of resources. Twenty six applications to own banks – some surprising ones and some familiar ones dropping out – raise the question whether the optimists are hopeful of having their way once the licences are given, or that the pessimists have thrown in the towel even before the first ball was bowled...............

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