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By Jagdish Rattanani |
There has been much discussion around zombie firms and zombie lending in recent times. In India, the term has been…
By Ajit Ranade |
Two years ago, a visibly angry Finance Minister, responding to the Reserve Bank of India’s inaction on reducing…
By Ajit Ranade |
The Reserve Bank of India was set up twelve years before India’s independence. In the eight decades of its existence it…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
It is barely two years since Urjit Patel took charge as Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Viral Acharya, the…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
At the heart of the rift is an uneasiness and some alarm in the bureaucratic and the political circles that PCA will…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
In terms of a speech, it is unprecedented in its forthrightness and signals a pushback like none other. It marks an…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
Under Kochhar, the bank consolidated, but its DNA of aggressive growth took over and problems were back soon. In 2018,…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
After two rounds of a hike in the policy repo rate, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has announced a pause. The…
By Jagdish Rattanani |
The resignation of Chanda Kochhar from ICICI Bank has come not a day too soon. Her formal exit from the bank announced…
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Contrary to widespread expectations of an increase of 25 basis points (by 50 bps by some), the Monetary Policy…
By Himadri Bhattacharya |
The MPC of the RBI caught almost everyone by surprise by keeping the policy repo rate unchanged at 6.5 per cent in its…
By Usha Thorat |
The change in stance from neutral to “calibrated tightening” also puts to rest any speculation about cut in rates and…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik, Jagdish Rattanani |
The Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting this week comes under the shadow of the massive IL&FS default that has…
By Ajit Ranade |
September 15 this year marked the tenth anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, a century old gold standard…
By Ranjit K Pattnaik |
The recent measures announced by the authorities may provide some short term relief but the sustainable solution to the…