Those customers who remained at SVB have now followed a familiar path in the wake of a meltdown, by simply being shuttled into a new lender courtesy of regulators.
India has done great in regulation because it took time to think things through. The US banking crisis should encourage Modi govt to avoid rush jobs like demonetisation.
The shock of a bank failure is both immediate and long lasting. This kind of situation led to radical solutions in 1826 – essentially a restructuring of UK banking services.
Though RBI has been conservative, such banking crises pose risks to broader Indian economy — potential flight of foreign portfolio capital, pressure on rupee, bad news for stock market.
India can raise the SVB issue with G20 finance ministers and evolve a banking framework to insulate emerging economies of the South from frauds committed by the developed North.
California banking regulators shut down Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) on March 10 after a run on the lender, which had $209 billion in assets at the end of 2022.
India must reduce its overdependence on the US by cultivating alternative markets—concluding the EU FTA, advancing the UK deal, and exploring entry into the CPTPP, the open, rules-based bloc of Japan, Korea, and Australia.
As India-Russia trade decreases, India's April-July exports to the US this year increased by 21% compared to last year & imports from the US grew by 12%.
New Delhi: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi Tuesday pushed for a “dual-track” progress for ties with India, separating economic ties from the boundary question,...
Now that both IAF and PAF have made formal claims of having shot down the other’s aircraft in the 87-hour war in May, we can ask a larger question: do such numbers really matter?
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