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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The ‘Interim Report of IL&FS and Its Subsidiaries’ dated November 30, 2018  by the Serious Fraud Investigation Office (SFIO), which was submitted by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) to the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), not only reveals the shenanigans of IL&FS’s senior management but also puts the spotlight...

Hemindra Hazari Money laundering is not alien to Axis Bank. On July 26, 2011, an investigation by the online media firm, Cobrapost, showed officials of both private and government banks soliciting clients for laundering black money. The sting videos revealed these practices to be  widespread at Axis Bank . In June...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. A closer look at Axis Bank’s staff data reveals the alarming mortality rate of new hires in the bank, and provides a glimpse of new hire attrition in the private banking industry in India. This appears to be a symptom of toxic work culture at the bank,...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The savage mauling of Indusind Bank’s share price in the last year, and especially in the last month, is a reflection of the unravelling of the bank’s high-risk asset and fee growth strategy.  A bank which use to trade at 5x P/BV is currently reduced to being...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The toxicity in Axis Bank’s work culture which this analyst has been highlighting (here and here) was recently confirmed by Ravi Narayanan, Group Executive - in-charge of retail liabilities, branch banking and products. As disclosed  by ‘Madanlal Dahariya’, a pseudonym used by a bank whistle-blower on Twitter,...

In the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the United States of America on March 10, 2023, the United States Federal Reserve (Fed), on April 28, 2023, released its report on the review of the bank’s supervision and regulation. The report is highly relevant in the...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Yes Bank’s loss in 4QFY19 would have been much higher, by Rs 16.6 bn, and its annual profit significantly lower, had it not been for the increase in the net deferred tax asset (DTA) of the same amount. The huge increase in the DTA partly offset the...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The press statement issued by ICICI Bank based on the enquiry report headed by Justice (Retd.) Srikrishna to investigate the allegations against Chanda Kochhar appears deliberately confusing and convoluted. While it states that Chanda Kochhar was in violation of the bank’s Code of Conduct, on the more serious charge of...

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It is difficult to read the SEBI's scathing order and not wonder what on earth the NSE board was doing. In Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Akela, the lone grey wolf leader, exhorts the pack to “look well” upon the cubs who are to be inducted into the pack as their own....