Differentiated banks: has their time come? - The Hindu
Differentiated banks: has their time come? - The Hindu
Online comments posted on July 28, 2014:
Online comments posted on July 28, 2014:
The need of the hour is a comprehensive overhaul of the
structure supporting financial services including those coming under ‘banking’.
Where possible existing weak arms like cooperatives and remaining Regional
Rural Banks should be helped out by redefining their roles and strengthening
their capabilities. Going on borrowing new ideas from developed world will look
attractive initially, but their possibility of ‘growing in the Indian soil’
should be studied first. These thoughts seem to have been factored in in the
recent RBI initiatives, if one considers the anxieties about big banks, talk
about increasing banking network in rural areas and the concern for financial
inclusion together. What is missing is the will to use the existing structure
and to look at financial services in entirety in the Indian context.
M G Warrier, Mumbai
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