PSBs must up risk infra: SBI chief
Team Udayavani, Mar 2, 2018, 9:50 AM IST
New Delhi: SBI Chairman Rajnish Kumar on Thursday said that public sector banks need to improve their corporate and risk governance infrastructure to mitigate the challenges related to operational risk.
“Public sector banks need to improve their governance infrastructure. If there are any deficiencies in corporate governance or risk governance architecture, they need to be looked into. And whatever are the gaps, need to be filled into as quickly as possible,” Kumar said on the sidelines of an event here.
He was responding to a question on banking frauds that have been coming to the fore now.
Talking about State Bank of India, Kumar said that the lender has a good risk mitigation architecture.
On consolidation of overseas branches of PSBs, he said it is nothing new, in fact, it is already on the agenda of the government to cut down operational costs.
The rationalisation overseas operations of the PSBs, he said, has nothing to do with the Nirav Modi fraud case in which Punjab National Bank was cheated of Rs 12,717 crore.
“This rationalisation of branches, whether overseas or domestic, is on the agenda of the government already. And we had done this exercise at the month-end that banks need to bring down operational costs,” he said.
For the last three years, SBI has been rationalising overseas branches. The Paris branch was converted into a representative office, while the Jeddah office was closed down.
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