RBI has implemented KV Kamath panel’s recommendations in totality, including parameters like high debt service coverage ratio and investment grade rating.
When the committee was announced as part of RBI’s loan restructuring plan, banks were under the impression it would suggest norms for retail and corporate loans.
RBI deputy governor post has been lying vacant since N.S. Vishwanathan retired on 31 March. He was in charge of portfolios including banking regulation.
Fear of probe agencies investigating bad loans left a deep scar on banking officials, raising their risk-averse nature to lending. RBI wants Kamath panel to take care of those fears.
Contrary to naysayers, the RSS practices what it preaches. It is closer to the Gandhian teaching of improving the individual morally and spiritually to change the external environment.
This is the game every nation is now learning to play. Some are finding new allies or seeing value among nations where they’d seen marginal interest. The starkest example is India & Europe.
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