SBI's HUGE loans to ADANI & its impact on you! - YouTube

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hi everyone so last month adani took a
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loan of roughly 6000 crore from sbi to
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start a copper manufacturing business
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this month we are in talk to raise
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roughly 14 000 crore loan again from sbi
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to start probably a new business now let
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me take you to a very interesting
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article which talks about the fact that
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india's willful defaulter loans have
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risen up to roughly 2.2 trillion dollars
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this is a 10-fold increase or a 10-time
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increase over the last 10 years and if
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you delve into deeper details of this
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article what you will figure out is that
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95 of these loans have been given by
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public sector banks out of this 30
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percent of the loans have been given by
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sbi alone so on today's video i am going
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to talk about dhani bank of india i am
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sorry i am going to talk about sbi or
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state bank of india and will speak about
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with you in four simple points as to is
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this situation worrisome that something
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like sbi is giving so much loans to a
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big conglomerate how securely have they
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given loans in the past what their track
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record has been like and going forward
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if you are an investor should you
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continue to invest your money in
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something like sbi also a humble request
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before starting the video that please
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press the like button so that these type
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of topics get out to more people they
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are made aware of what is happening with
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taxpayers money it is a very important
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aspect for all indians to get educated
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as to how their money is being spent by
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the governments just to give you some
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context and starting a parallel topic
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here that air india when it was making a
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loss it used to make a loss of 20 000
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crore per day so that was a big loss and
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who was paying for it we the taxpayers
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were paying for it so therefore please
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ensure that whenever you are seeing
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these type of things you share these
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type of videos so with that said let us
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get the story started and i will speak
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in four very easy to understand points
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so point number one is some historic
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context around sbi loans and what type
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of engagements they have been a part of
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while sbi has given a ton of loans to a
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bunch of different people there are
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three standout cases that are the most
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talked about cases in indian media as
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well so let me show you a quick history
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of these three cases so the first case
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is that of mr vijay malia so mr vijay
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malia took a loan of roughly 9000 crore
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and despite all the turmoil that has
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happened he has so far paid only 58
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percent of that money of that 9 000
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crore the rest of it is a loss to the
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exchecker why is that because the lead
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financer on this loan was the sbi
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consortium and sbi had a lot of exposure
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to this particular rule so these type of
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loans will fall in the willful category
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of defaulters so what is meant by
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exactly willful defaulters so willful
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defaulters are people who can
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technically pay the loans by selling off
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their assets but they are choosing not
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to pay those loans by exploiting some
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kind of loopholes now comes the second
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example which is one of the most
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discussed scams of india which is the
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abg shipyard scam now here is the list
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of banks and their exposure to abg
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shipyard and here again you will see sbi
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in one of the top three lenders that had
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the most exposure to abg shipyard now
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third most talked about case was of
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meera modi and mihol chok say and here
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you would say that okay that was punjab
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national bank not sbi so here is a very
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interesting article and i was talking
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about this article with my wife just a
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while back and she could not believe it
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and honestly i don't know if the story
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is true or not but here is the study
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that was done by times of india and what
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they ended up saying was that they
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talked with neerav modi and nirav modi
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said that sbi was his preferred choice
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of lender but he went to sbi he told
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them that he am a big jeweler i need a
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loan but the sbi worker there said that
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hey we are on lunch time and only swiggy
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people are allowed if you don't trust me
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just check this article so sbi got saved
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here and they said that they did not
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have any direct exposure to neerav
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modi's cam and they had indirect
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exposure to him largely because of the
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fact that the worker was probably on a
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perennial lunch so the bottom line
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remains that whenever you see a large
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npa problem looming somewhere you will
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have sbi's names associated with it for
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one reason or the other so now comes the
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second point that why these public
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sector banks they undergo such large
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scale defaults there are multiple
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reasons for the same i will not get into
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political side of the equation because
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of course politicians appoint directors
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all that stuff everyone is able to
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follow along that part of the equation
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but i will talk about more systematic
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issues without making this video
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political so one of the key reasons why
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there is so much shadiness with public
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sector banks is simply because of the
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fact that the operational matrix or kpis
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or key performance indicators are not
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set a classic case in point is punjab
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national bank and nirav modi scam that
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happened so here is the entire article
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and i will read it with you so basically
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it says that in pnb fraud case they are
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referring to the neerav modi scan case
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thereby allowing officers to
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clandestinely issue letters of
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undertaking to move these companies and
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confirming them with counterparty banks
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overseas through the swift system so the
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bottom line is that there was a poor
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linkage between the swift system and the
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core banking internal software so as a
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result the alarms were not raised at the
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appropriate time and the neerav modi
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scam took place now this is slightly
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more complicated stuff to get into what
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i would request you to do is please
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watch a series called as 1992 scam you
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would understand more about the letter
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of undertaking issue so one of the key
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reasons why these type of scams keep on
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happening with public sector bank is
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that their operational parameters are
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not optimized similar to the way it is
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done at top private banks now you might
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turn around and say that you know what
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akshat the abg shipyard scam i can see
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the name icici bank also there true but
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there are two points there number one if
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you take a look at the meta study meta
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study means the big study then you will
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clearly see that 95 percent of willful
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deformed loans still comes from public
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sector banks not private banks second
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key point is the timing of the icici and
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ebg shipyard scan during that time there
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were corporate governance issues with
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icici bank and you had the chanda
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coacher problem also where she ended up
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issuing loans to her own husband for
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business so while it is true that it is
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almost impossible for a bank to
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completely eliminate the bad loan
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problem there are systematic issues with
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public sector bank that we have to
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acknowledge simply because of the fact
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that if you look at the meta study
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almost 95 percent of the data points to
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the fact that public sector banks are
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the ones that end up issuing loans to
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people who become willful defaulters
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eventually now the second key reason is
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there is lack of incentive and
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accountability for example here is a
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statement by dr raghuram rajan and he
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writes in his book i do what i do today
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a variety of authorities monitor the
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performance of public sector bank it is
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important that we streamline and reduce
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the overlaps between the jurisdiction of
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authorities and specify clear triggers
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or situations where one's authority
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oversight is involved so basically what
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he is trying to say is that there is a
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lot of overlap between different
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functions and it is very difficult to
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assign accountability to different
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people so whenever any scam is under
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covered a lot of investigation takes
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place lot of new metrics and guidelines
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are given but nothing is followed in the
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spirit per se simply because there are
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lot of overlapping authorities that are
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involved in terms of running a public
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sector bank now third more systematic
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issue is that public sector banks do not
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focus on risk mitigation
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they are too focused in terms of
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increasing their loan books for example
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right now there is a lot of celebration
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oriented news at sbi that hey our loan
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books have grown our profits have grown
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all that is great but having so much
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exposure to adani debt if you want i'll
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make a separate video on adani debt let
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me know in the comment box but the point
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remains it is fairly common sensical
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that if a person or a company is taking
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and building entire businesses or series
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of businesses purely financed through
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loans then at least one bank should not
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be over exposed to that particular
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conglomerate now can i show you some
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data in numbers regarding how much debt
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do adani's have from sbi and that data
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is unfortunately not released which is
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very interesting and let me talk about a
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little bit by showing you this graphic
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so you can see that this is the total
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write-off of amount that has been done
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by sbi in different years so you can
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categorically see that this number had
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been going up up until financial year 19
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and 20 for example the total write-off
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was roughly 46 000 crore and the total
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recovery of that amount was literally
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less than 10 12 percent of that now when
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you go and ask banks like sbi that hey
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can you give a list of these people who
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are defaulting and not paying these
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loans and whose loans are you writing
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off the banks will not give you
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information but if this happens at an
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individual level if you and i take a
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loan from sbi and if we default then
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banks sometimes publish our names in the
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newspaper so this is precisely what is
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written in this particular article so to
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cut the long story short in order to
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manage the risk any bank should be
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sensible in terms of not over exposing
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itself to a particular party especially
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if it is taking so much loans after
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loans after loans this is very common
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sensical number two you cannot question
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the banks also because that list is not
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released as to how much loans they have
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given or written off for every single
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entity so this becomes like a complex
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problem to deal so let us move on to the
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third section and let me speak about the
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risks associated with sbi's loans at
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least what i could find through public
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information so first and foremost we
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spoke about this chart where the
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write-offs that were done by sbi they
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were rising up until 2019. then comes
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the natural question that hey what
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happened in 2020 because this number
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came down so something magical happened
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or did the asset quality improved the
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answer is no the regulations by rbi was
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changed around how to define nps so as
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for this article you can categorically
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see that rbi changed the period of
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defining an npa from 90 days to 180 days
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so due to the fact that the period of
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defining npa was increased fewer npa
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defaults will happen during that period
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of time now very interestingly in 2020
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there was a mispricing risk which was
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talked about by the managing director of
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sbi so here is a statement from him and
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i will read it out with you that though
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banks have tightened the underwriting
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standards surplus liquidity in the
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system may push banks to a situation
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where they end up mispricing the risk so
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what does this simply mean so i am
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oversimplifying the story it simply
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means that post 2020 a lot of money was
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printed into the economy or a lot of
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liquidity was brought into the economy
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so banks had a lot of money to lend out
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just to stimulate or re-stimulate the
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business activity this was point one
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number two the banks were mandated that
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go out and give more loans and guess
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what as point number three there were
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entities like adani's that ended up
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taking and availing more and more and
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more loan from 2020 onwards so what
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happened in this game was that the bank
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chairman himself has alarmed the
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situation that hey the risk might go up
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associated with these type of loans now
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in 2022 something strange is happening
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with sbi first and foremost their stock
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price is skyrocketing in fact if you
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check the current numbers you can
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categorically see that it is trading
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almost at its all-time high this is
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despite the fact that if you go and
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compare it to something like hdfc which
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is a much much cleaner bank its stock
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price is trading at roughly 20 discount
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right now now you might have read a
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series of positive news that bank
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profits have grown revenues have grown
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loan books have grown they are lending
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out money more yes they are lending out
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a lot of money but at what risk this is
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something that no one is talking about
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so fueled by all this optimism and given
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the fact that when they have lent out to
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businesses like adani's they themselves
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have gone on to massive expansion and
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everything is going well as of now so
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there is nothing to worry for sbi as per
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the current situation they are venturing
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into more unsecured loans for the time
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being and here is an article to prove it
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so what is the net net story that i am
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trying to tell you it can be understood
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through this particular flowchart so
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basically the way the back end structure
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is working is that banks like sbi are
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being pushed to give out more and more
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loans this has been happening due to
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legitimate purposes because when the
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covet situation was there the world was
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stopping so government had to pump in a
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lot of money and sbi had to lend out so
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they did that there is no problem up
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until this point it was necessitated but
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now this is turning into a habit and
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there are two outcomes that can take
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place so more loans that are being given
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out to end businesses if these end
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businesses are able to survive and win
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in the economy so sbi will keep on
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getting its money and its loan book will
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get strengthened in time but option 2 is
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horrific that if these businesses lose
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then they will default on their loan
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there will be a lot of write-offs that
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will be undertaken by sbi and that can
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lead to very bad future for public
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sector banks so this brings me to the
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final section where i will talk about
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investment related points associated
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with sbi so first and foremost is sbi
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safe right now the answer is i don't
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know it is for investigation agencies to
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investigate but i as a common citizen
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can just look at the publicly available
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information and can draw my own
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inferences that the game that sbi is
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playing right now it is a highly
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dangerous game and people who are
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putting their money on sbi stock they
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stand a lot of money to lose in case the
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situation turns bad second key point
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that will the sbi business get
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completely demolished if for example
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adani's business failed the answer is no
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sbis loan book is huge it is a very big
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bank it can absorb the shock of even is
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failing in fact let me re-qualify my
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statement it will not be sbi and that
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will be absorbing the loss it will be
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the citizens of india and do we have the
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capability of absorbing such losses the
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answer is yes we will be able to absorb
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it so sbi will continue its operations
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as it is nothing is going to change
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there point number three if you are
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looking to invest your money in hdfc
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bank or sbi bank again i will take you
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back to that same graphic that sbi right
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now is almost hitting its all-time high
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the risk reward equation does not make
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sense to me this is not an investment to
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sell buy etc i am just simply showing
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you facts if you compare it with
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something like hdfc bank which is a
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cleaner bank you will hardly see hdfc
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getting involved in these type of murky
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situations their books are clean they
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are trading at roughly 20 discount
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please understand how the banking
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business works one part of the equation
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is increasing your loan book that you
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are giving more and more loans that is
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great for the business as long as the
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part two of the equation which is
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recovering of those loans also happens
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it should not happen that your loan
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books are growing that these loan books
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backfire after five years when the
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people whom you have lent out your money
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to are not able to pay you back this
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brings us to the final point that akshay
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you have been bullish about punjab
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national bank then why such double
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standards with sbi so first and foremost
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point there is that i am not saying that
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punjab national bank will become the
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next hdfc bank it's a swing stock for me
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again not a recommendation for you to go
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and invest in punjab national bank or
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punjab national bank nothing of that
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sort i am simply trying to point the
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fact that punjab national bank has been
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a swing stock for me right now it is
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trading at a massive discount and the
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risk reward equation makes sense because
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of the price at which punjab national
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bank exist can some type of fraud happen
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at punjab national bank also the answer
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is yes can some type of fraud happen in
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sbi also the answer is yes but sbi from
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a pricing point of view is very very
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high punjab national bank is not that
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high especially if you compare its
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current market price to its book value
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so going forward how do i see the
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situation playing out if everything is
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hunky dory in the economy if the economy
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keeps on doing well then adani's will
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grow sbr will get his money back and
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everything will be good good but on the
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flip side if there are economic tremors
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and if the business of adani's go under
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for some reason then sbi seems to have a
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very large exposure to adani debt and
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that can prove disastrous for a bank
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like sbi at least in the short term i
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hope you enjoyed the video now i am
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going to have lunch please like and
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comment on this video and i will see you
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soon