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Manojit Saha
Manojit Saha
Manojit Saha is the Banking Editor for Business Standard and is based in Mumbai. He has been tracking the financial sector for over two decades, with a focus on the Reserve Bank of India and monetary policy. He has also contributed to Business Standard's digital offering - The Banking Show - with interviews with business leaders, CEOs and key policy makers. He has anchored panel discussions between CEOs from banking, insurance, NBFCs and fintech industry for the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit, and the Business Standard-IMGC India Mortgage Leadership Conclave, among others.
Manojit Saha is the Banking Editor for Business Standard and is based in Mumbai. He has been tracking the financial sector for over two decades, with a focus on the Reserve Bank of India and monetary policy. He has also contributed to Business Standard's digital offering - The Banking Show - with interviews with business leaders, CEOs and key policy makers. He has anchored panel discussions between CEOs from banking, insurance, NBFCs and fintech industry for the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit, and the Business Standard-IMGC India Mortgage Leadership Conclave, among others.
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Banks to face RBI heat for not passing on base rate cut benefit
Central bank sees action as discriminatory, unfair
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Why RBI should use its powers to supersede inefficient bank boards
Regulator needs to send a strong signal to errant lenders
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RBI pulls up bosses for IOB mess
Appointments made by NDA govt after cancelling UPA proposals
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Retail loan rates: Who is offering lowest?
SBI recently reduced base rate by 40 bps to 9.3% and ICICI Bank by 35 bps to 9.35%
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Banks want bad loan mismatch disclosure postponed till 2018
The move is aimed at bringing greater transparency in reporting the financial numbers
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Becoming a bank will not give players an edge in micro finance space: S Dilli Raj
Interview with president, SKS Microfinance
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Bond default complicates things for Amtek
Firm's earlier borrowings are now classified as Special Mention Account-2, and close to becoming NPAs
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Micro lenders turn the page with banking licences
Five years after microfinance groups faced a crisis of confidence, their business model is seen as strong enough by RBI to grant banking licences to nine of them
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Why RBI's rate cuts have failed to move banks
For banks to cut loan rates, the cost of deposits needs to come down, and there is no sign of that happening
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Pre-payment issuers petition RBI on payments bank licence issue
To write to regulator s on why they were not given any
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Raghuram Rajan: Many hits but some misses, too
He certainly met with some success but many of his initiatives are yet to yield the desired results
 "Raghuram Rajan: Many hits but some misses, too")
Why other banks can't flex muscle like HDFC Bank
Till a few years earlier, HDFC Bank's benchmark lending rate was about 50 basis points (bps) more than the marker leader
 "Why other banks can't flex muscle like HDFC Bank")
Provide subsidy to farmers directly, RBI tells govt
The move comes amid rising NPAs pertaining to the sector
 "Provide subsidy to farmers directly, RBI tells govt")
Autonomy for govt banks remains on paper
FinMin sets target for MUDRA loan, Jeevan Suraksha gift cheques
 "Autonomy for govt banks remains on paper")
PSU bank reforms fall short of expectations
Full autonomy that will help banks attract capital and talent is still a long way off
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SBI takes Harvard lessons for staff appraisal
Apart from 40 modules of Harvard, SBI has internally developed 500 e-modules for employees
 "SBI takes Harvard lessons for staff appraisal")
One has to be extremely careful before taking a drastic step: Shubhalakshmi Panse
Interview with Member, P J Nayak Committee and former chairman and MD of Allahabad Bank
 "One has to be extremely careful before taking a drastic step: Shubhalakshmi Panse")
RBI may relax ARC share sale norms
At present, ARCs are needed to take prior regulatory approval for selling more than 10% stake
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How SBI's 'Super Six' put its house in order
Arundhati Bhattacharya's six-pronged strategy to revitalise the country's largest bank has yielded good results
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Reforms plan fires PSU bank stocks
But experts say govt has hardly given up control in these entities
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