Banking licences to corporate in favour of national interest: RBI governor

04 Jul 2013 Evaluate

Amid the debate of allowing the corporate to apply for banking licence and with a goal of bringing financial services to millions of Indians, the Reserve Bank of India Governor D Subbarao has said that the decision on this was taken in the favour of national interest and after debating extensively on the matter to allow corporates to apply for new licences.

The central bank has received 26 applications from various large corporates including Tata Group, Reliance Capital and L&T Finance among others. In February, the RBI issued final guidelines that would govern the new set of proposed banks. These included a requirement that the banks have a minimum equity capital of around Rs 5 billion and that they don't have foreign ownership of more than 49% for the first five years of operation. The rules also require that one out of every four branches opened by the new banks be located in rural areas.

The RBI governor on globalization in banking services, said that there is the need to implement global norms like Basel III to globalize banking services as Indian banks go out and open branches abroad and foreign banks come and set up operations inside the country. He also said that India has to learn to manage policy in a globalized world as over the last five years, the world has gone through a financial crisis which has hit every country, showing the ferocious power of globalization.

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