{"id":226520,"date":"2020-03-04T18:15:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T12:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=226520"},"modified":"2020-03-05T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T05:29:10","slug":"cabinet-approves-mega-consolidation-in-public-sector-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/03\/04\/cabinet-approves-mega-consolidation-in-public-sector-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Mega Consolidation in Public Sector Banks &#8212; Approved by Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Union Cabinet has approved the mega consolidation of ten PSBs into four which include the \u2013<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(a) \u00a0Amalgamation of Oriental Bank of Commerce and United Bank of India into Punjab National Bank<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(b) \u00a0Amalgamation of Syndicate Bank into Canara Bank<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(c) \u00a0Amalgamation of Andhra Bank and Corporation Bank into Union Bank of India<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">(d) \u00a0Amalgamation of Allahabad Bank into Indian Bank<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The amalgamation would be effective from 1.4.2020 and would result in creation of seven large PSBs with scale and national reach with each amalgamated entity having a business of over Rupees Eight lakh crore. The Mega consolidation would help create banks with scale comparable to global banks and capable of competing effectively in India and globally. Greater scale and synergy through consolidation would lead to cost benefits which should enable the PSBs enhance their competitiveness and positively impact the Indian banking system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition, consolidation would also provide impetus to amalgamated entities by increasing their ability to support larger ticket-size lending and have competitive operations by virtue of greater financial capacity. The adoption of best practices across amalgamating entities would enable the banks improve their cost efficiency and risk management, and also boost the goal of financial inclusion through wider reach.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Further, with the adoption of technologies across the amalgamating banks, access to a wider talent pool, and a larger database, PSBs would be in a position to gain competitive advantage by leveraging analytics in a rapidly digitalising banking landscape.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Cabinet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>[Source: PIB]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>[Press Release <\/strong>dt<strong>. 04-03-2020]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Cabinet has approved the mega consolidation of ten PSBs into four which include the \u2013 (a) \u00a0Amalgamation of Oriental Bank of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":209514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29535,4],"tags":[39863],"class_list":["post-226520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cabinet_decisions","category-legislationupdates","tag-mega-consolidation-in-public-sector-banks"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mega Consolidation in Public Sector Banks -- Approved by Cabinet | SCC Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/03\/04\/cabinet-approves-mega-consolidation-in-public-sector-banks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mega Consolidation in Public Sector Banks -- Approved by Cabinet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Union Cabinet has approved the mega consolidation of ten PSBs into four which include the \u2013 (a) \u00a0Amalgamation of Oriental Bank of\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2020\/03\/04\/cabinet-approves-mega-consolidation-in-public-sector-banks\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"SCC Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/scc.online\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-04T12:45:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-03-05T05:29:10+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/CABINET-SECRETARIAT.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1330\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"887\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Bhumika Indulia\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/04\\\/cabinet-approves-mega-consolidation-in-public-sector-banks\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/post\\\/2020\\\/03\\\/04\\\/cabinet-approves-mega-consolidation-in-public-sector-banks\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Bhumika Indulia\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.scconline.com\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/919ec47cc1b871b362af05740398033a\"},\"headline\":\"Mega Consolidation in Public Sector Banks &#8212; 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