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Indian Banking System AND Basic Banking Concepts
Indian Banking System AND Basic Banking Concepts
Indian Banking System AND Basic Banking Concepts
SYSTEM
AND
BASIC BANKING
CONCEPTS
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EVOLUTION OF BANKING STRUCTURE
IN INDIA
• At the time of Independence - banking
structure dominated by domestic scheduled
commercial banks. Non-scheduled banks,
constituted a small share
• First task before RBI after independence -
develop sound structure on contemporary lines
• Safety nets to depositors from RBI
• Need for separate banking structure –
Commercial banks not tuned to needs and
requirements of SME and marginal farmers,
co-operatives lacked resources.
Need of combining local feel and familiarity of
rural problems characteristic of co-operatives
and professionalism and large resource base of
commercial banks. 2
INDIA BANKING SYSTEM – STRUCTURE
SCHEDULED BANKS
• Audit Sub-Committee
Dy Governor is Chairman and 2 Directors as
members
upgrading quality of statutory audit and
internal audit functions in Banks and FIs
• Functions
bank inspections; off-site surveillance,
strengthening of role of statutory auditors ;
strengthening of internal defences of
supervised institutions; legal issues in bank
frauds; divergence in assessments of NPA and
supervisory rating model 7
RBI – CHANGING SCENARIO
• REAL TIME GROSS SETTLEMENT (RTGS) SYSTEM
- IN compliance with Basle Core Principles for
Systemically Important Payment Systems of BIS
• INdianFInancialNETwork –INFINET – a ‗`one-of-a-
kind‘ initiative for sharing IT expensive resources
• `ANYWHERE BANKING’ THROUGH CBS, ‘ANYTIME
BANKING’ -National Financial Switch for
interconnecting ATMs
• IMPROVING CG- set up through ―fit and proper‖
criteria
• INTEGRATED RISK MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
• NATIONAL ELECTRONIC FUNDS TRANSFER (NEFT)
SYSTEM and NATIONAL ELECTRONIC CLEARING
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SERVICE (NECS).
BANKING SECTOR REFORMS
• Several committees constituted to resolve
problems of Commercial Banking in India, two
most important are-
a) Narasimham Committee I (1991)- aimed
at bringing ―operational flexibility‖ and
―functional autonomy‖ so as to enhance
efficiency, productivity and profitability
b) Narasimham Committee II (1998)-
bringing structural changes so as to
strengthen banking system to make it
more stable
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MAJOR RECOMMENDATIONS
NARISHIMAM COMMITTEE REPORT I