Thursday, July 11, 2013

Panel to Help Banks Meet Basel Norms

The government has formed a committee with representatives from India’s top insurer and a few state-owned banks to suggest ways of raising long term capital for local lenders to meet new international rules on capital for banks. The mandate of the committee is to recommend steps to raise perpetual or long-dated bonds which do not have any fixed maturity, and will be issued by Indian banks in line with the new Basel rules which kick in from 2014............

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