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Making Banks Accountable to Retail Customers  

January 20, 2014

Since banks are the biggest distributors for all financial products, they need to operate within a strong consumer protection framework. This is lacking.

 

Sucheta Dalal

 

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is, finally, working on a consumer protection framework that will empower it to ensure that banks treat their customers fairly. This is in line with global best practices that RBI deputy governor Dr KC Chakrabarty has been espousing for a long time. The crux of the new thinking is that “self-regulation, often, does not work and a strong, intrusive and hands-on regulator/supervisor provides the confidence that markets will operate on sound principles and be free from unfair and unethical practices.”

 

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