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RBI found gaps in corporate governance at banks despite guidelines: Das

The Reserve Bank has found gaps in banks’ corporate governance despite issuing guidelines on the matter, Governor Shaktikanta Das said on Monday.

Addressing directors of bank boards, Das said such gaps, which have been mitigated, could have caused “some degree of volatility”.

He also hit out strongly against “smart accounting” to conceal stress and bloat financial performance.

“It is…a matter of concern that despite these guidelines on corporate governance, we have come across gaps in governance of certain banks, with the potential to cause some degree of volatility in the banking sector,” Das said at the meeting specially convened by the Reserve Bank.

Bank boards and management should not allow such gaps to creep in, he said, adding that the RBI has taken up such matters with the banks at an individual level in the past.

It is the joint responsibility of the chairman of the board and the directors, both whole-time and non-executive or part-time directors, to ensure robust governance in banks, the governor noted.

The RBI has also found banks adopting “smart accounting methods” to “artificially boost financial performance”, Das said, revealing more about the modus operandi.

Banks try to conceal the real status of stressed loans by getting two lenders together to evergreen each other’s loans by sale and buyback of loans or debt instruments, persuading good borrowers to enter into structured deals with a stressed borrower to conceal the stress, adjust borrower’s repayment obligations by using internal or office accounts, he said.

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