Essay About Indian Banking And Business Strategy Formulation

Indian Banking Industry
Essay title: Indian Banking Industry
T he banking industry in any economy provides its financial backbone.
This places it on a completely different platform from any other
industry, including regulated utilities. While its criticality for the
economy is undisputed, it is this criticality that also makes it vulnerable to
failure. This is the reason the banking industry is regulated, albeit in different
degrees, in every economy. A fair amount of research, both international
and Indian, has gone into determining the factors that affect bank
performance. However, the relationship between performance and stock
returns has not received much attention. With more and more banks in
India getting listed in the stock markets, shareholder value creation has
assumed importance along with the other traditional objectives these banks
(especially nationalised banks) were set up for. The challenge before banks
is to create such value by differentiating themselves from competition on
the one hand, while working within the regulatory boundaries on the other.
They do not enjoy the freedom firms in most other industries do with regard
to business strategy formulation and/or policy making. Hence, it makes
sense to look at what exactly banks need to concentrate on in order to
create an impact in the stock market.
An attempt is made in this paper to delineate the items of published
information that have an impact on stock performance from those that do
not, for the Indian banking