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“The move to allow promoters to hold 26% of the paid-up voting equity share capital of the bank seems to be a way of turning the exception allowed to Kotak Mahindra Bank into a policy decision, uniform to all banks,” said independent banking analyst Hemindra Hazari. “In my view, this would undermine the credibility of RBI as it has allowed independent private banks to arm-twist the regulatory body."
In our experience companies adopt liberal accounting policies to cover up flagging fundamentals otherwise there is rarely a valid business reason.
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