The Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the merger of capital-starved Lakshmi Vilas Bank with the Indian arm of Singapore-based DBS Bank India. LVB and DBS Bank India merger will come into effect from November 27, 2020. The Union Cabinet approved the merger of 94-year-old capital-starved Lakshmi Vilas Bank with DBS Bank India. This comes after the Reserve Bank of India …
The story so far: On November 17, the Centre, acting on the recommendation of the Reserve Bank of India, imposed a moratorium on Lakshmi Vilas Bank for a period of 30 days. The RBI, the regulatory body overseeing the country’s financial system, has the power to ask the government to have a moratorium placed on a bank’s operations for a …
The shareholders of the 94-year-old Lakshmi Vilas Bank may not be getting anything as per the Reserve Bank of India’s draft scheme for its amalgamation with DBS Bank India. The draft scheme also states the employees of the LVB will become the employees of the DBS Bank and the latter can discontinue the services of key managerial personnel of the …
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