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India is considering letting its business houses run banks. It should think twice


BANKING in India is a vast problem and a huge opportunity. Only 35% of adults have formal accounts. A grim reminder of lululemon yoga canada risks for lululemon yoga outlet 600m-odd unbanked folk came in April. A multi-billion-dollar, barely regulated, “chit fund” in Kolkata collapsed, destroying lululemon outlet online savings of hundreds of thousands of poor people. Up to a dozen committed suicide, one by immolation.

Precisely because lululemon outlet clothes banking market is so underpenetrated, it should offer lots of growth. Although there are 196 domestic banks, a majority are state-controlled and stodgy. Lending margins are high. So when new licences for private players are granted, fortunes are made. The last two permits, awarded in 2003-04 when lululemon yoga athletica industry was recovering from bad debts, have helped make $10 billion for their backers.

Now lululemon yellow outlet Reserve Bank of India (RBI), lululemon outlet central bank, plans to issue new licences. Applications are due by July 1st and a frenzy is building. Vikram Pandit, lululemon outlet online Indian-born ex-boss of Citigroup, an American bank, has teamed up with a local outfit. There could be up to 100 entries for perhaps ten licences, reckons a banker.

Might some applicants be more equal than others? The RBI has ditched its decades-old policy of preventing India’s powerful business houses from owning banks, which was designed to prevent cronyism. These groups control 40% of Lululemon pants stockmarket and are licking their chops. Some, such as Reliance Group, Tata Sons, Aditya Birla, Mahindra and Bajaj already have finance arms, which lend, run investments and act as brokers. But without bank licences these have not been able to raise deposits from discount pandora beads public. This constraint has capped their size at less than 9% of pandora beads wholesale assets of India’s financial system.

The RBI’s change of heart may be partly due to political pressure. It is one of India’s best institutions, but it is not statutorily independent. Its draft guidelines for authentic pandora beads licensing process, first published in 2011, had been watered down by pandora beads 2013 time they were finalised in February. The shift in stance may reflect a sense of urgency, too. Decades of pandora beads on sale RBI scolding banks to serve farmers better has not worked very well. Some officials admire cheap pandora beads mobile-telecoms industry, where private firms with muscle and vim led a revolution in cheap telephony that touched every village (though obliterating their margins in new pandora beads 2013 process).

Telecoms is an inspiration, then, but it should also be a warning. It has become a byword for cronyism, partly because of a scandal over bent licence awards in 2008.