This blog examines how ATMs are still relevant even though transactions on UPI and other digital modes are surging due to fear of handling cash in the wake of the pandemic. Nothing works like cash in disaster situations when...
Category - Current affairs
This post highlights the similarities between the Satyam fraud that unfolded 11 years ago and the recent Wirecard fraud
This post is on the way forward for the large depositors of PMC Bank in the light of the extension of Directives on PMC Bank by Reserve Bank of India
Waiting for ‘Godot’? Depositors of the multi-state cooperative bank, PMC Bank aka Punjab Maharashtra Cooperative Bank Ltd. are anxiously praying for their deposits in the bank to be safely returned to them. Their hopes...
Just like a fairy tale! In early March of 2020, just before the Covid-19 pandemic and lock-down became all pervasive in India, we saw a fairy tale being played out in the banking sector. A young and aggressive ‘damsel’...
This post examines whether going 'digital' is indeed the way forward for banks
Mergers during lock-down While you and I were under lock-down from the 24th of March and all our social gatherings, marriages etc. had to be cancelled, there were four financial ‘marriages’ in the banking industry that...