With the potential to become the fifth largest banking industry in the world by 2020 and third largest by 2025 according to KPMG-CII report, India’s banking and financial sector is expanding rapidly. The Indian Banking industry is currently worth Rs. 81 trillion (US $ 1.31 trillion) and banks are now utilizing the latest technologies like internet and mobile devices to carry out transactions and communicate with the masses.

   The Indian banking sector consists of 26 public sector banks, 20 private sector banks and 43 foreign banks along with 61 regional rural banks (RRBs) and more than 90,000 credit cooperatives.

Factors promoting growth of Banking and Financial Services

  The Banking Laws (Amendment) Bill that was passed by the Parliament in 2012 allowed the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to make final guidelines on issuing new bank licenses. Moreover, the role of the Indian Government in expanding the banking sector is....