Chandra Shekhar Ghosh, Chairman and Managing Director of Bandhan Financial Services said the microfinance company would apply for a banking license with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Consulting firm Deloitte will advise the Kolkata-based microfinance company (MFI) on the application formality. The MFI has 45 branches and a customer base of 2.6 million in unbanked rural areas
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Edelweiss plans to set up bank, to seek RBI’s licence
For setting a new private bank, Edelweiss Financial Services is to apply to Reserve Bank of India. It will transfer its existing merchant banking business to subsidiary as a step to comply with norms prescribed by RBI for new banking license, said the firm on June 24. The firm will make an application to the RBI for a Banking License, in accordance with the provisions of the Guidelines for Licensing of New Banks in the Private Sector dated February 22, 2013, the company informed the Bombay Stock

