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Reserve Bank of India

Priced Prudence

When regulators move early, markets often complain. That familiar tension is now visible in India’s banking sector as the Reserve Bank of India pushes lenders toward a more rigorous, forward-looking assessment of loan risk.

Presumed Guilty

Intolerance of economic crimes is not unique to India; Bernard Madoff the mastermind of the largest known Ponzi scheme, worth an estimated $18 billion, was sentenced by a US court to 150 years in prison, making people wonder if financial fraud was worse than violent crimes like rape and murder.