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Credit · Fraud · LegalDevelopments from the preceding seven days, connected to Vivek’s archive
Credit desk
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RBI’s NRI deposit window draws nearly $10 billion—but the funding story is only beginning.

The special deposit initiative is attracting foreign-currency inflows after a clarification permitted leveraged lending against the deposits. The strategic question for banks is how temporary liquidity becomes disciplined, productive credit.

Direct archive parallel · bank funding cost and surplus liquidity
“Deposit costs? They barely moved—down just 0.25%.”
“When you’re sitting on surplus liquidity…and you need to put that money to work…the big corporate borrowers know it.”
Fraud desk
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A ₹14.68 crore mule-account network shows why fraud is a system of movement—not one suspicious transaction.

Police in Barabanki reported dismantling a multi-state network that used bank accounts to route stolen funds. The event turns attention from the final beneficiary to recruitment, account behaviour, velocity and repeated intermediary patterns.

Direct archive parallel · scattered signals and connected behavioural sensing
“The problem is not that the account did not warn us. The problem is that the warning was scattered.”
“A radar does not wait for collision. It tracks movement, direction and speed.”
Legal desk
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A bank merger does not automatically carry tenancy rights past the requirement for landlord consent.

The Supreme Court held that a tenancy transferred through a statutory bank amalgamation can still attract eviction under the Delhi Rent Control Act when the landlord’s written consent is absent.

Related legal question · tenancy, consent and the rights attached to occupation
“Who is actually occupying the property? In what capacity? Since when? Under what document?”
“Even after mortgage, default, SARFAESI action and a Section 14 order, possession still got delayed.”

Editorial method: quotations are used only where the original article discusses the same mechanism. A looser conceptual connection is labelled “related legal question” rather than presented as a direct parallel.

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AI & Digital Lending

Technology examined through accountability, explainability and lived banking experience.

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Credit & Underwriting

Judgment-led underwriting, appraisal practice and questions worth asking.

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Fraud, Ethics & Governance

Patterns that reveal more than the paperwork—and the controls that should respond.

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AI & Digital Lending

AI in Indian Banking: Hype, Reality and the Maturity Gap

A colleague asked whether AI adoption in banks really has depth. I paused to examine the public evidence. A colleague who had been reading my recent blogs on AI in lending called me with a simple question: “Is there really so much depth in AI adoption within banks, or are we overstating it?” It w…

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AI & Digital Lending

From Paperless Lending to Intelligent Lending

Early Warning Signals in lending must move beyond periodic reports and static triggers. Episode 4 of From Paperless Lending to Intelligent Lending explains how AI can help banks and NBFCs shift from EWS reports to early warning sensing by connecting conduct, cash-flow, business, governance and po…

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AI & Digital Lending

From Paperless Lending to Intelligent Lending

AI in lending should not digitise waste faster. Episode 3 of From Paperless Lending to Intelligent Lending uses the Johari Window to explain how banks and NBFCs can move from data abundance to judgement clarity. It explores signal platforms, the blind zone of unused analytics, the 40% signal wast…

14 min read

AI & Digital Lending

From Paperless Lending to Intelligent Lending

The AI Lending Flywheel explains how financial institutions can move from isolated AI pilots to intelligent credit flow. Built around six stages — capture, understand, flag, decide, engage and learn — the model shows how AI can improve the quality, timing and context of credit judgement without r…

9 min read

AI & Digital Lending

From Paperless Lending to Intelligent Lending

Paperless lending is only the first stage of transformation. The real opportunity lies in removing hidden waste in lending — waiting, rework, repeated checks, late exception discovery, dashboard noise and underused human judgement. This article uses a Lean lens to explain how AI can help move fin…

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Fraud, Ethics & Governance

The Late Claim Trap: When Property Security Meets an Unanswered Title Challenge

A banker’s reflection on Central Bank of India v. Prabha Jain, 2025 INSC 95, where the Supreme Court held that a third-party challenge to sale deed and mortgage validity may still proceed before a civil court despite SARFAESI action. The case highlights the late claim trap, title litigation risk,…

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Three decades inside the decisions.

Vivek Krishnan is a banking, governance and transformation leader. His writing connects field observation with credit judgment, institutional design and the human behaviour behind risk.

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