Including consultancy companies, around Rs 5,000 crore of business could be generated
Unlike private banks, most PSBs, analysts say, do not have clear specialisations and end up competing against each other
The track record of this government has given us enough reason to be sceptical about another experiment with merging PSBs
Mergers are cosmetic without real governance reform
Success of the process of consolidation of state-owned banks depends on the enhanced capability of the RBI to exercise its regulatory oversight and ensure financial stability
The possibility is that high calibre chief risk officers in the PSBs already earn Rs 1 crore to Rs 2 crore, whereas even SBI chairman could be earning less than Rs 30 lakh
Numbers of officers now more than other workers in PSBs
Analysts cite examples of SBI and BoB to indicate how the mergers could be value-depletive for investors in the near term
We have budgeted Rs 70,000 crore for this year, says Finance Secretary Rajiv Kumar
PNB will take over OBC and UBI to become the country's second-largest lender after SBI in terms of business
There will be very little overlap in terms of branches or network, since the geography focus has been different, says Indian Bank's Padmaja Chunduru
Lower MTM provisioning already making these lenders attractive
If you book a new fixed deposit or take a fresh loan, the rate will be decided by the merged entity
However, benefits from these measure, being structural in nature, will accrue in the long term, they said.
Our capital to risk (weighted) assets ratio, or CRAR, is good, says Andhra Bank MD
There were discussions in general since a few months, said Syndicate Bank MD Mrutyunjay Mohapatra
Often the resolution process gets stuck with many smaller players not agreeing with the majority view
The exercise, seen together with the previous two rounds of bank consolidation, will bring down the number of nationalised public sector banks to 12 from 27 in 2017
Finance ministry has called a meeting with chief executives of ten public sector banks on Friday
Most of the banks are planning to go for a qualified institutional placement to reduce the stake, and LIC would be a major subscriber of the issues, said a banker in a PSB