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The now-beleaguered and much-derided Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS) holds its annual general meeting on September 29. IL&FS has a handful of major...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. At a time when many private sector banks such as HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank, Indusind Bank and Yes Bank have...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. While Axis Bank has recovered from its corporate non-performing asset (NPA) crisis, it seems to be in the midst of a management...

Reliance Naval Engineering (RNE) will in all likelihood be classified as non-performing by all the concerned banks in the consortium for the quarter ended March 31,...

Mumbai: It is the season of resignations for the independent directors of India Inc’s corporate boards. The recent stormy exit of R. Chandrashekhar from the board of Yes Bank caught...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Data from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) reveal that, in the recent period of declining interest rates, while all banks have...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Many cases of mis-selling by ICICI Prudential Life (IPru Life) have been highlighted by this analyst since 2018 (also here and here)....

The systemic erosion of public institutions indicates that Vinod Rai, a roaring tiger, has been reduced to a caged parrot, and the BBB’s expiry date is fast approaching. Perhaps the BCCI will turn out to be a more absorbing engagement than the nation’s public sector banks.

Hemindra Hazari Everyone knows public sector banks are less profitable, more prone to political influence and have higher ratios of non-performing assets (NPAs) than their...

Take two old private banks, of similar backgrounds. One embarks on an ambitious, disruptive strategy of nationwide expansion; the other remains stuck to its...