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January 27, 2021, Wednesday
Budget Byte: NBFCs may need liquidity support from PSBs for commercial flow
This year, while housing finance has improved, preliminary data shows that NBFC flow to the commercial sector is lagging
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January 18, 2021, Monday
Statsguru: Bank lending in the slow lane amid Covid-19 pandemic
In a period of slowing credit growth, only PSUs have sequentially borrowed more, and that too, only from private banks
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June 29, 2020, Monday
Statsguru: A look at the performance of UCBs as RBI gets more control
Following the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank crisis, there has been a growing call to give more teeth to RBI in ...
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March 23, 2020, Monday
Statsguru: From SBI to ICICI Bank, lenders come to YES Bank's rescue
The bank, however, could not hide its bad debt under the carpet for long as RBI auditors forced all banks to disclose their bad ...
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March 09, 2020, Monday
Statsguru: How PSBs deal with integration in a challenging biz environment
The RBI in December 2019 noted that private sector banks accounted for 69 per cent of incremental loans in 2018-19
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February 10, 2020, Monday
Statsguru: Temporary act in the 15th Finance Commission's report
States such as Bihar, Maharashtra, and erstwhile state of Jammu & Kashmir stand to gain, compared with the current year's share, ...
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April 16, 2018, Monday
Statsguru: Holding a fine balance between 11th and 14th Finance Commission
The Commission had recommended that states' share in divisible tax pool be raised to 42% between 2015 and 2020
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December 25, 2017, Monday
Statsguru: Twin balance sheet problem
According to the RBI's Financial Stability Report, new investment proposals have declined significantly in Q2FY18
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November 13, 2017, Monday
Statsguru: Future of banking in India
Banks need to fundamentally reorient their business and adopt new strategies: Report
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June 12, 2017, Monday
Statsguru: Is RBI's status quo justified?
Recent economic data make it difficult to justify the policy stance
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October 10, 2016, Monday
StatsGuru: Will the repo rate cut work?
The Monetary Policy Committee surprised many by cutting the policy rates by 25 basis points
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September 22, 2016, Thursday
Clicking for money
Apart from providing ease of transactions, digital money can also play a crucial role in financial inclusion, say experts
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July 25, 2016, Monday
StatsGuru: Tackling the NPA problem in public sector banks
Financial position of India's public sector banks has deteriorated sharply over the past financial year
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May 22, 2016, Sunday
StatsGuru: Taking stock of the state of the banking sector
State Bank of India's merger with some of its associated banks might kick off a long-overdue consolidation of India's public ...
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April 26, 2016, Tuesday
9 reasons why India's rising credit card debt should worry you
The data needs to be seen in the light of slower industrial credit as well as declining debit card spends
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March 11, 2016, Friday
Tracking recovery rate
Rise in bad loans is caused by factors including slowdown in recovery in the global economy and continuing uncertainty in global ...
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February 16, 2016, Tuesday
Public sector banks' bad loans equal defence, education, roads and health spending
If the unpaid loans made by India's public-sector banks were recovered, they would be enough to pay for India's 2015 spending on ...
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February 07, 2016, Sunday
StatsGuru: The finance sector's NPA woes
As Table 1 shows, the size of the Indian financial sector's non-performing asset (NPA) problem has continued to increase in ...
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January 29, 2016, Friday
Mis-selling topmost complaint in life insurance, but declining slowly
Mis-selling, which dominates the grievances in the life insurance sector, has seen a reduction in the financial year 2014-15 ...
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November 17, 2015, Tuesday
Bank fraud doubles in one year
Bank fraud jumped 100% in the year since Modi took office, prompting the RBI to set up a fraud registry, that the PMO also ...
