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Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an Indian business journalist, known for his weekly column on banking and finance ‘Banker’s Trust’ published in Business Standard. He is a senior advisor to Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd. He was an adviser at Bandhan Bank Ltd from August 2014 till October 2018. His latest book is Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking. A student of English Literature (a postgraduate from the University of Calcutta), Bandyopadhyay began his career in journalism as a trainee journalist with The Times of India, in Mumbai in 1985.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an Indian business journalist, known for his weekly column on banking and finance ‘Banker’s Trust’ published in Business Standard. He is a senior advisor to Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd. He was an adviser at Bandhan Bank Ltd from August 2014 till October 2018. His latest book is Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking. A student of English Literature (a postgraduate from the University of Calcutta), Bandyopadhyay began his career in journalism as a trainee journalist with The Times of India, in Mumbai in 1985.
The central bank digital currency will neither substitute nor compete with cryptocurrency; it's just a wallet. Period
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) sounds relatively more confident on growth now and, at the same time, its concerns on inflation are clearly higher
Do we need yet another refinance agency? No one will shed a tear if Mudra is given a decent burial
If bankers move fast and preserve the enterprise value of defaulting companies, recovery rate will improve even as the new insolvency law, much like the GST, remains a work in progress
As lobbying and counter-lobbying intensify, right now, it looks like a T20 match. We need to wait till the last over is bowled
They will probably get their money back through staggered payments, and part of it can be converted into equity.
Till March, banks could hold on but not all of them will be in a position to stomach the impact of the second wave of the pandemic
This time, RBI's rate-setting body is not only talking about sustaining growth but also reviving it
'Unwinding' is unlikely to happen before the third quarter of this year even if we don't mess up in tackling a possible third wave of Covid; rate hike may have to wait for next year
While the RBI must respect the spirit of freedom of expression, we need to draw a Laxman rekha, and the RTI Act should not become a tool to bypass all confidentiality requirements under other laws
Banks feel happy shifting their toxic assets from loan books to investment books, while the ARCs are enjoying the management fees with a smile. Let's break the cosy relationship
It's a strategic decision by Citigroup's new CEO, not a reflection on its India operations. Regulators' displeasure and investors' ire are behind it
Unless the Reserve Bank comes forward and helps banks to handhold the MSME borrowers, bad loans will swell in the September quarter
More than banks, most of which have the balance sheet strength to stomach bad loans, it is the borrowers who will suffer once they are branded as defaulters since no lender will give them fresh money
An OMO calendar will make bond dealers happy but a disinvestment or privatisation calendar by the government will be a more potent weapon to manage yield and push growth
In August 2020, when RBI raised the LTV for gold loans to 90 per cent, effective till March 2021, gold price was at a record high. It's time to pare the LTV for de-risking the lenders
None can question the central bank's policy of leaning against the rising yield but the problem is with the way it is being done
Leading names of India's banking industry join Tamal Bandyopadhyay at Business Standard's Unlock BFSI 2.0 to discuss the issues plaguing the sector
Why do we need a bad bank, owned by the banks themselves, when there are at least 28 ARCs around?
After 51 years of bank nationalisation, the government has finally admitted that it should not be in the business of running all public sector banks