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Karnataka Bank urgently needs a permanent CEO
For the past three months, the Mangaluru-based private sector lender hasn’t had a full-time chief executive. But finding a successor is as important as fixing the bank’s worrying financials.
17 Oct 2025
What does the RBI’s new rule mean for corporate acquisitions?
Indian banks have been allowed to fund M&As, but the framework will matter as much as the opportunity.
05 Oct 2025
Anil Ambani’s comeback is anything but one
The return to profitability and the deleveraging at Reliance Power and Reliance Infra are not what they’re cracked up to be. Plus, as their promoter, his past continues to haunt the two surviving group companies.
08 Sept 2025
Arun Khurana resigns as IndusInd Bank deputy CEO
The resignation comes amid regulatory scrutiny over irregularities in the bank’s derivatives portfolio.
28 Apr 2025
High attrition is the bane of India’s private banks
The increasing convergence of sales and service functions, with consequent non-stop pressure to meet targets, has seen employees jump ship in droves. This has the potential to adversely impact the financial institutions’ health.
05 Jan 2025
The bank stress storm everyone knows is coming (but no one wants to talk about)
Personal loans in India have seen excessive growth, fuelling risky investments like speculative trading. Things will not end well for lenders when the music stops playing.
24 Oct 2024
What is the Unified Lending Interface and will it open a new can of worms?
While digitization of information and maintaining a single repository of financial and non-financial data will allow greater ease of access and cut loan processing time, it will also make sensitive data that much more vulnerable.
01 Sept 2024
SEBI warns ICICI Bank over ‘inappropriate’ I-Sec outreach
The regulator’s warning comes after complaints from ICICI Securities’s shareholders alleging that bank officials pressured them to vote in favour of the delisting.
06 Jun 2024
Indian banking’s inconvenient truths
Improved NPA ratios seem to indicate that Indian banks have turned a corner when, in reality, the reasons behind the record low numbers point at serious emergent risks.
03 Jun 2024
Real-money gaming companies could face an RBI blow
The grouping of the sector alongside betting and gambling firms in the tax regime opens up the prospect of the central bank denying it access to payment gateway services.
03 Oct 2023