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Last week, I had a constructive discussion with representatives from the Canadian Bankers Association on the growing challenge of fraud and scams targeting Canadians.

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March 9, 2026 at 11:46 AM
Louis Rouanet of University of Texas, El Paso and Alexander William Salter of @ttu.edu examine mission creep at the Federal Reserve.
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Mission creep at the Federal Reserve
Since the 2008 financial crisis, the Federal Reserve has expanded its objectives beyond the traditional scope of monetary policy. It directly allocates credit, incorporates inequality considerations ...
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September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
3/4 It said it had stopped issuing licences in 2004 because a large number of newly licensed UCBs became financially unsound very quickly. The central bank also observed that both the operating environment and cooperative banks themselves had changed significantly since then.

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BasisPointInsight.com - Should India Create More Cooperative Banks, or Better Banks? by Alpana Killawala
As the RBI considers issuing new cooperative bank licences after a 22-year pause, the real question is whether India needs more banks at all or better banks. by Alpana Killawala , BasisPointInsight.co...
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June 10, 2026 at 8:39 AM
1/2 Small-value digital frauds are individually minor, but collectively corrosive to larger public trust. The RBI’s proposed compensation framework is timely, but it must be designed to deter fraud, not become opportunity for others to farm it.

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BasisPointInsight.com - RBI’s First Step Timely, But Guardrails Needed to Prevent Gaming of Fraud by Srinath Sridharan
Small-value digital frauds are individually minor, but collectively corrosive to larger public trust. The RBI’s proposed compensation framework is timely, but it must be designed to deter fraud, not b...
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February 7, 2026 at 4:42 AM
1/2 Any debate on the SLR must be grounded in the political and fiscal realities that shape our financial system, not in abstract theories of deregulation.

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BasisPointInsight.com - Rethinking SLR Through India’s Political Reality by Srinath Sridharan
Any debate on the SLR must be grounded in the political and fiscal realities, not in abstract theories of deregulation. And any rethink must acknowledge that liquidity reserving is not an Indian anoma...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
1/4 Indian banks are redefining how they raise growth capital — and the quiet hero of this shift is the humble warrant.

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BasisPointInsight.com - Metamorphosis of Warrants into Growth Capital for Indian Banks by Chandrika Soyantar
Reimagined and repurposed as a sophisticated tool rather than supplementary device and an emergency rescue capital, warrants are now empowering India’s growing banks to channel global capital. by Chan...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
🇨🇳 🏦 ⬇️ 🇺🇸 💵 #ChinaUSDollar #BankingPolicy
China orders its banks to reduce US dollar purchases.
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April 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
The Trump administration is extending immigration enforcement into the banking system through a new executive order targeting customer citizenship scrutiny.

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Trump Expands Immigration Enforcement Through New Banking Oversight Order
President Donald Trump signed a new executive order directing federal regulators and banks to increase scrutiny of customers’ citizenship status,
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May 20, 2026 at 1:17 AM
Banks are squeezing credit to solar firms over fears of "overcapacity," but is this short-sighted risk aversion?

With manufacturing capacity set to explode from 11 GW to nearly 110 GW, aren't we stifling the very growth needed for a green future?

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March 19, 2026 at 6:21 AM