Thursday, May 15, 2014

Sensible banking

......Without dwelling too much on the past—why public sector lenders are poorly supervised, why they have become so inefficient and financially fragile—it is more than evident that boards of banks need to be revamped, professionalised and made more accountable. But for this to happen, there needs to be a drastic overhaul of rules and regulations. Which is probably why the committe believes the way out is for banks to be incorporated under the Companies Act and for the government to transfer its holdings to a Bank Investment Company (BIC). The BIC, will over a period of time, say, three years, pass on several of its powers to the boards of banks; that way banks cam be spared the damage being caused by dual regulation—by RBI and the finance ministry...........

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