DBS books a Passage to India as Covid cloud lifts and outlook brightens

Bank failures carry systemic risks. Recall in 2008, the failure of Lehman Brothers setting off a chain reaction that resulted in the Global Financial Crisis. The problem with banks is that if even a hint of trouble materialises, there could be a run on deposits. Governments can prevent a failure turning into a systemic risk, and the Government of India appears to have done just.

Under an archaic law, a scheme of amalgamation using the special powers of the Government of India and the Reserve Bank of India from Section 45 of the Banking Regulation Act 1949, amalgamated Lakshmi Vilas Bank (LVB) with DBS India (DBI), a subsidiary of DBS Group Holdings, on Nov 27, 2020.