K Paul Thomas: ‘Quality of corporate governance in enforcing credit standards relevant’ | March 16, 2020
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Private lenders faced tough times due to poor corporate governance, NPAs | March 6, 2020
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YES Bank's new management: Prashant Kumar appointed MD, CEO; Sunil Mehta Non-Executive Chairman | March 15, 2020
Seven days after the RBI superseded the YES Bank board, the government, notifying the YES Bank Reconstruction Scheme 2020, dissolved the office of administrator, appointing new board members of the private lender. While notifying the YES Bank reconstruction scheme, the Centre has said the new board of directors will be led by Prashant Kumar, former chief financial officer and deputy managing director of State Bank of India. He has also been appointed as Chief Executive and Managing Director of the private lender. Kumar was earlier appointed as the YES Bank administrator.
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YES Bank crisis and after: A singular focus on shareholder return compromises consumers and society | March 10, 2020
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More risk capital and a strong corporate governance code, key to India's GDP growth: Uday Kotak | Feb 15, 2020
India’s aspirational growth of 6-7% in the future highly depends on a large amount of risk capital from domestic investors and a strong corporate governance code, said Kotak Mahindra’s MD, Uday Kotak at a panel discussion on guidelines for corporate governance to India Inc. organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry.
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One in every three CEO changes in the past three years has led to positive returns on the bourses | Mar 18, 2020
Only 43 of the 131 companies that have had a new CEO in the past three years have posted positive shareholder return to date.
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Crisil gives Airtel top rating for Corporate Governance
Crisil has given Airtel the highest rating of ‘CRISIL GVC Level – 1’ for its Corporate Governance Standards. For giving the ratings, the company’s competency of the board of directors, outstanding Corporate Governance practices and comparatively high disclosure standards have been considered. Another feature that added brownie points to Airtel’s Board Effectiveness is its ability to maintain market share despite fierce competition in the Indian telecom industry over the last three years.
Crisil also pointed out that Airtel has been holding an Independent Directors only session, which is presided by a Lead Independent Director, before every board meeting for more than a decade.So, this provides Independent Directors a platform to shares their views openly in front of Board and Management after identifying the areas where they need more clarity or information. Also, the company’s Independent Director’s can meet the statutory auditors without the presence of executive management.
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Evaluating Corporate Governance
This report by India Ratings & Research (A Fitch Group Company) is on the approach to assessing the impact of governance practices on issuers and also identifying the issuer which reflects the specified characteristics and inclusion of that into the ratings.
Hence, the key rating drivers were given such as ‘Issuer Specific Assessment’; ‘Issuer specific factors’ and ‘Credit Protection Assessment’. Also, Rating Analysis based on – ‘Issuer Specific Corporate Governance Characteristics’, ‘Board Effectiveness’, Management Effectiveness, etc. were also given in the report.
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