"The guarantee is a big issue no doubt but the fact of the matter is that NARCL has taken too long to conduct due diligence and make concrete offers," said a person familiar with the matter. "And even when they have made offers, those have been too little for banks to take a call which has meant an unecessary back and forth. All these factors have jeapordised the NARCL idea."

Large corporates will never be allowed to open a bank in India, veteran banker N Vaghul has said. Vaghul said India has learnt from its pre-bank nationalisation experience and will never repeat the same mistakes by allowing large corporations into banking.

A senior official told ET that the government has asked public sector banks (PSBs) to focus on written-off loans and try to recover at least ₹2 lakh crore in this financial year.

Uday Kotak, the CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank, clarified his earlier statement regarding the US dollar as the "biggest financial terrorist in the world" on Twitter. He said he meant that the US dollar's reserve currency status gives it disproportionate power that can regulate global trade, putting other countries in a position of dependency when transacting. Kotak urged India to build strong independent institutions & frameworks as prerequisites to make the Rupee a reserve currency

Since the announcement of Uday Kotak as a non-executive director on the board, some concerns were raised about whether this will get the regulatory nod because, in its April 2021 circular, the RBI also makes it clear that there should be a three-year cool-off period before an MD and CEO is reappointed.

The Northeast Banking Conclave was organized by Ministry of Development for the North Eastern Region, North Eastern Development Finance Corporation (NEDFi) and State Bank of India with Confederation of Indian Industry in New Delhi on Friday.

The central government has appointed Debadatta Chand as the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of the Bank of Baroda for a period of three years, as per a Finance Ministry notification. Meanwhile, Rajneesh Karnatak will take the reins of the Bank of India.

"We have seen consolidation in telecom, airlines to some extant, steel and cement,” he said. “We need our banks to be able to finance large acquisition for companies. “If Mr (Sajjan) Jindal wants to make a large acquisition why cannot domestic banks underwrite the risk? Yes we have to be careful and avoid accidents on the road but we should also allow cars to travel faster."

Across most of Asia, muted big-ticket consumer expenditure — such as on housing — and restrained capital expenditure by firms have led to only a mild post-pandemic recovery in credit, which makes India’s double-digit loan growth a notable exception, according to economists at Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.