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CHLOROPHYLLWhen going gets
tough
lume - 1 Issue
11 December 2010
Basel II - Is itreally what IndianBanks needed??Credit- Deposit
RatioAirtelRebranding
Change is about to COME !11!
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From Editors Desk
Dear Readers,
A Warm regards to you all at the advent of this winter season from team
Domination. As we are approaching the year end it just seems like yesterday
when we connected with you as a team Domination for the first time. It is a
pleasure to come out with the December edition with yet more intriguing
questions which together we could analyze and try to reason with them.
In search of standards to select relevant projects for financing, "Basel-II"
comes to serve the purpose to parameterize Risk of a project, but is it really
what Indian Banks need? Find out answers in our article on Basel-II.
Going further, we have "Credit Deposit Ratio Analysis; a comparative
study of various Indian states to help give a better understanding of the potential
of the financial demographics of these states.
A yet another re-branding strategy this time of "Airtel" has been scrutinized
in this edition. So was it really required? And what rationale does it hold?
Watch out for "Airtel Rebranding: Was it needed?
The creative section "Chlorophyll" gives you food for thought and adds a
fresh perspective with the write-up "When Going Gets Tough! which reflectsthe deep insight of the writer.
Put your knowledge to test with our ever interesting quiz section "Qutopia"
where we coax your brains to keep thinking and keep learning. Also, do look out
for the winners of the last edition.
So, as it is Christmas season, it is the time to enjoy, and make merry but do
not forget to do your bit of charity. Till the time we meet again the next year
"Merry Christmas" Every one!
With luck and regards on behalf of team "DOM-i-Nat10n.
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Table of Contents
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Airtel Rebranding
Rishi Arora
DoMS, IIT-Roorkee
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Creative SectionIts wise to learn, Its GOD like to create
Chlorophyll-Fresh Green Creativity, right fromthe roots of DOMS through the
leaves of this newsletter
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Qutopia - 11
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When going gets tough..Harsh Singh
Credit Deposit Ratio
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DoMS, IIT-Roorkee
Divye Garg & Charu Singla
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DoMS, IIT-Roorkee
Basel II- Is it really what IndianBanks needed??
Deep Pathak & Mayank Jain
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Deep & Mayank -
DoMS, IIT-Roorkee
Basel IIIs it really what Indian banks
needed????Prior to 1992, Indian banks were subject to aregime of strict control enforced by the RBI. A
process of financial liberalization was initiated
in1992 to make the banking system profitable,
efficient, and resilient the year 1998 saw a
second phase of reforms in the banking
industry marked by the introduction of several
prudential measures and the first set o
comprehensive guidelines for risk
management. When the whole world was
suffering from economic crisis the Indian
banking system was not affected much by the
recession due to number of measures taken by
RBI which contributed to strengthening the
resilience in the Indian banking system, These
included prudential regulations for limiting the
exposure of the banking system to sensitive
sectors and appropriately rebalancing the risk
weights of different assets. Latest development
in the Indian Banking industry includes theimplementation of Basel II norms, and
preparation of draft of Basel III which
includes a move towards better risk
management practices. Basel II framework
rests on the following three mutually-
reinforcing pillars:-
Pillar 1: Minimum Capital Requirements
It involves calculation of the total minimum
capital requirements for credit, market andoperational risk.
After calculating Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3
capital and various risks, capital adequacy
ratio is calculated as-
Pillar 2: Supervisory Review Process (SRP):-
It envisages the establishment of suitable risk
management systems in banks and their
review by the supervisory authority.
Pillar 3: Market Discipline: - It seeks to
achieve increased transparency through
expanded disclosure requirements for banks.
Methods Adopted by Indian Banks:
For calculation ofcredit risk in Indian banks
is using Standardized approach. While Banks
use both standardized model and the internal
risk management framework based model for
calculation ofmarket risk capital charge. And
as per the standardized approach for the
operational risk management, RBI has
divided banks by its business lines to
determine the amount of cash it must have to
protect itself against operational risk.
Historically Basel brought a lot of changes in
the Risk management policies of RBI. The
Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) in the
country even experienced a noticeable drop in
their non-performing assets (NPAs) from 8.2
% to 2.9% of net bank credits (NBCs).But
there are a lot of things that put a Question
mark on the RBIs decision to implement
Basel II. Some the major criticisms of RBI are:
1. Implementation of Basel 2- The major
concern with process adopted by RBI for
implementation of Basel II in India is its over-
emphasis on financial stability as a goal in
itself. This goal goes contrary to credit
distributional norms and growth potentials of
the Indian economy. The Capital requirements
as per Basel II are too high for Indian banks as
Indian banks unlike their foreign counterpartsare not much involved in speculative activities.
Tier 1 + Tier 2
+ Tier 3 Capital
(Capital Funds)
Capital Adequacy Ratio = RWA for Credit
Risk +
(12.5 X capital chargefor Market & Operational risk)
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This increased capital requirement will make
bank more risk averse to credit dispension
2. Credit Crunch for SME- Banking sector is
undergoing restructuring with the Basel norms
and its implications will not limited to the
reduced Nonperforming Assets. It will have
strong bearing on the distribution of bank
credit. With priority sector mandate and focus
of the bank on risk weighted assets the loans
to small sector Industry will suffer .This would
be indeed a concern because employment
generated by the organized sector of the
manufacturing industry is only 14 per cent
compared with 86 per cent by the unorganized
sector of which small and medium enterprises
remain the major component.
3. Timeline for Basel 2 -Another concern is
the short time frame with in which Basel 2was implemented. Much of this so- called risk-
aversion with regards to credit dispensation
can also be attributed to quick adoption of
Basel - approved credit risk adjusted ratios for
capital.
4. Poor Infrastructure- Though the Basel II
norms are implemented, India adopted the
standardized Approach for credit risk, basic
indicator approach for operational risk basedon the degree of sophistication, cost o
implementation and compliance in Indian
banking system. Adoption of the advance
approaches like, internal rating based approach
for credit risk and Advanced Measurement
Approach for operational risk would have
helped bank to maintain low capital. But there
are constraints faced by domestic banks in
terms of availability of historical data, required
skill-sets and technological adoption so theydo not meet the minimum requirement
specified in the Basel framework to migrate to
advance approach. Thus Basel 2 was
implemented in India before the banks were
ready for it and as a result they have to keep
extra capital charge.
5. Possibility of consolidation in the banking
industry- Third concern is Basel norms might
lead to systemic risk and subsequent
consolidation in the banking industry. Since
Capital requirement in advance approaches of
risk measurement is lower, many large banks
are keen to implement advance approaches.
Cost of implementation of advance approaches
in large banks would be compensated by
resulting reduction in capital but for smaller
banks this cost would not be compensated. As
a result larger banks would be able to pass
benefits of reduction in regulatory capital.
Thus due to arbitrage opportunity the low riskassets would be attracted towards larger banks
and smaller banks would be left with high risk
assets. This adverse selection presents intrinsic
systemic risk in times of economic downturn.
6. Negative impact in growth of PSB- To
meet the capital adequacy norms of Basel II
the public sector banks needed avenues to
raise capital. RBI facilitated capital raising
options by enabling the issuance of severalinstruments by banks viz. perpetual debt
instruments, Perpetual non-cumulative
preference, redeemable cumulative preference
share and hybrid debt instrument . Now with
the changes in the norms way tier 1 capital is
calculated PSB would require directing a lot of
capital for adequacy which implies less credit
dispension. Also Basel norms impacts the
growth of the banks thus to the goal of
financial inclusion.
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7. Credit Risk Measurement The
Standardized Approach for credit risk
measurement depends upon on the external
credit rating agencies but, the rating
infrastructure in India is poor. Also credit
rating agencies in India rates the instruments
and not the issuing entities. The risk weighting
scheme under Standardized Approach also
creates some incentive for some of the bank
clients to remain unrated since such entities
receive a lower risk weight of 100 per cent
vis--vis 150 per cent risk weight for a lowest
rated client. This might specially be the case if
the unrated client expects a poor rating.
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Credit Deposit Ratio
-Divye & Charu
DoMS, IIT-Roorke
Comparative analysis of four States of India Bihar, Punjab, Maharashtraand Tamil Nadu
Banks are important financial institutions of a
nation. A bank acts as a financial intermediary
that accepts deposits and channels those
deposits into lending activities, either directly
or through capital markets. A bank connects
customers with capital deficits to customers
with capital surpluses.
Deposits are of three types namely (i) Saving
(ii) Current and (iii) Term deposits. Savings
deposit is the money saved and deposited by
individuals or businessmen. On the other hand,
current deposits are primarily made by people
for business purposes. A term deposit is a
deposit for a fixed term with maturity ranging
anywhere from a month to few years.
Loans given by banks are of two types
namely: - (i) Long Term and (ii) Short Term.
Long term loans are generally given toindustries at high interest rates for a long
duration whereas short term loans are
normally given to farmers, traders, individuals
at low interest rates for a shorter duration.
What is CDR?
The Credit Deposit (CD) ratio is the
proportion of loan-assets created by banks
from the deposits received. Mathematically,
Credit Deposit Ratio can be written as:-
Implications
Higher the ratio, higher the loan-assets created
from deposits i.e. higher CD ratio which
reveals the efficiency with which the
commercial and financial intermediaries are
tapping savings from the available sources and
channelizing these to various productive
activities of the economy. Corollary, low
credit deposit ratio indicates the low
productive activities of the economy. Credit
Deposit ratio is also a strong indicator of
source of investment and pattern of financing
in a given state. For example, higher saving
deposits in comparison to current deposit
would indicate that the area under discussion
has few business organizations. Likewise,
higher institutional current deposit vs. lower
firm current deposit would indicate that there
is big industry in that state. A sector-wise
break-up of credit deposit ratio can help a
person, sitting remotely, to make his decision
for desired investment and a proper balance in
CD ratio is essential to regulate the finance in
that State.
A high credit-deposit ratio could also imply a
rise in interest rates. Example: Consider Bank
Y which has deposits worth Rs. 100 crores and
a credit-deposit ratio of 70 per cent. Thatmeans Bank Y has used deposits worth Rs. 70
crores to create loan-assets. Only Rs. 30 crores
is available for other investments.
Now, the Indian government is the largest
borrower in the domestic credit market. The
government borrows by issuing securities (G-
secs) through auctions held by the RBI. Banks,
thus, lend to the government by investing in
these G-secs. And Bank Y has only Rs. 30crores to invest in G-secs.
If more banks like Y have lesser money to
invest in G-secs, the government then has two
options to meet its expenditure. Either, it can
raise yields to make investment by banks in G-
secs attractive. Otherwise, force the RBI to
take the securities into its books. But both the
options have a tendency to push up interest
rates in the economy.
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Credit Deposit RatioComparative analysis of four States of India Bihar, Punjab, Maharashtra
and Tamil Nadu
Yields on G-secs serve as a benchmark for
interest rates on other debt instruments. A rise
in the former, thus, pushes up interest rates on
the latter
Moreover, if RBI takes G-secs into its books,
it releases fresh money into the system and i
the money so released is large, then too much
money will chase too few goods in the
economy resulting in higher inflation levels.This would prompt investors to demand higher
returns on debt instruments. Hence, higher
interest rates result.
Comparative Analysis
A comparison of the four states reveals that
the Tamil Nadu has the maximum credit
Deposit ratio while Bihar has minimum credit
deposit ratio. Punjab is very close to national
average while Maharashtra being the financialhub of the nation is performing well in terms
of credit deposit ratio. Bihars credit deposit
ratio is way below the regulatory requirement
given by RBI policy under which the
commercial banks must maintain a 60% credit
deposit ratio in the rural and semi urban region
of the state.
Bihar is one of the states in India having very
low credit deposit ratio. The reasons for lowcredit deposit ratio in Bihar are very low
number of bank branches in the state, the
credit disbursement in Bihar is mainly to
agriculture sector and Individuals, The
deposits which are made in banks are savings
deposits rather than term deposits. On the
positive side, both credit and deposit amount
has increased over the last 10 years which can
lead to improvement of credit deposit ratio in
the future years to come.
In Punjab, major credit disbursement is to
industries and agriculture which improves the
credit amount for the state. The major deposits
in the banks are term deposits through which
banks can give out long term credit. The
number of bank branches per lakh population
in the state is also very high. The reason for
low credit deposit ratio in Punjab as compared
to states like Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu is
due to low CD ratio in rural (51%) and semiurban (48%). The CD ratios in both the
regions are well below the statutory
requirement of 60%. Industrial credit must
pick up in these regions to improve the overall
CD ratio.
Maharashtra is the financial backbone of the
country. The amount of credit and deposits
which is done in the state is highest out of all
the other three states i.e. Bihar, Punjab andTamil Nadu. The reason for slightly low CD
ratio as compared to Tamil Nadu is due to the
sanctioned credit for the state being utilised in
other states. Banks must utilise the credit
within the states to improve CD ratio as per
utilisation which is very low at about 79%.
Tamil Nadu is the state having highest CD
ratio (more than 100%) among all the states in
India which shows that Tamil Nadu has morecredit amount than deposit. Both deposit and
credit amount have increased over the last 10
years in the state with credit amount increasing
at much faster rate as compared to deposit
amount. The reason for such high credit
deposit ratio is due to major credit being
disbursed to industrial sector in all the regions
i.e. rural, semi-urban, urban and metropolitan
which leads to high credit amount in the state.
Also, credit sanctioned in other states is being
utilised in Tamil Nadu.
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Credit Deposit Ratio
The deposits are also term deposits which help
banks to give out long term credit for
industrial projects and thereby earning high
interest rates on the loans.
Rapid industrialization, modernization o
agriculture and improvement of social,
physical and financial infrastructure are keys
to ensure faster growth which can lead toimprovement of credit deposit ratio in states
like Bihar and Punjab. Improvement in credit
ratio cannot be done in a short period of time
but it will require a long term effort to
improve. CD ratio is dependent upon
infrastructural development and linkages and
both of them will require a long term effort.
Credit can be easily dispensed in agriculture
sector as compared to industry since
agriculture sector has the potential to absorbmore credit and is more developed than
industry. But without the development o
credit system in industrial sector, credit
deposit ratio cannot improve in states having
low CD ratio.
There is a need to divert from agricultural
activities to investments & tertiary sectors. It is
important that all efforts are made by the bank
for creating an appropriate recovery and
lending climate. The bank has not only to fill
the credit gaps but also to provide after-service
complementary to credit availability that
would encourage entrepreneurial initiatives.
Banks should start specialized branches to
increase credit disbursement to existing
industrial outlets. These branches should also
promote establishment of new industries in the
region by identifying viable units of capable
entrepreneurs in the states. While heavy
industries can absorb a substantial amount ocredit, there is sufficient scope for the
development of tiny as well as indigenous
industries in Bihar and Punjab, which have a
large employment potential. It is possible to
accelerate the development of tiny, village and
cottage and such of the small scale industries
which do not require a substantial quantity of
investment or money, although the absorptive
capacity of such industries in term of per unit
credit requirement may not be large, yetaggregate of their credit requirements would
be substantial in view of the large number of
such industries. Apart from their employment
potential, such industries also help increase
production for domestic markets and create
market linkages in Bihar and Punjab.
Alternative Implications
In the end, credit deposit ratio can sometimesbe a misleading parameter to measure the
growth of the country. Sometimes, a region
having low CD ratio can have very high
growth level e.g. Kerala, where the state has
prospered in spite of low CD ratio (due to
large deposit amount from NRIs). Also, the
credit deposit ratio does not give information
about the credit risk i.e. the information about
the non performing assets of the bank. In some
regions, banks have poor credit history where
people do not pay back their loans and
regularly default, so, in these cases banks are
reluctant to give out credit to people and that is
not shown by CD ratio. Credit deposit ratio
does not give information about the usage of
credit, whether, it is being used for productive
purpose or not. Shortage of labour, political
disturbances are other factors that CD Ratio is
not able to depict. Higher CDR may always be
not a good indicator since it carries certain
risks - for recovery, inflationary pressures, etc.
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Re-branding
"The brand needs to speak to different
countries... think internationally. The brand has
to connect with the youth in the geographies that
we are in." - Sunil Mittal
Airtel has rebranded its logo to a white
coloured curvy model along with a reddish
background. On top of it, the brand is using
its media strength to advertise the change it
has brought especially with the introduction
of 3G. Recently we have seen Videocon
being rebranded to a greener model.
However, the question is did Airtel really
need the change?
There are two different views on it. One set
of people welcome the move as a switch
towards its increasing global presence while
the other set dislike this act and see it asunnecessary. Amazingly, the latter set
includes general public, students and
budding marketers as well.
Think tanks who liked and welcomed this
rebranding exercise also give solid reasons
for its potential success. They are of the
view that the move by the
telecom giant is not a single logo chang
or jingle change, rather it is a change i
the whole positioning of the company
the minds of its consumers and othe
stakeholders and thats what rebrandin
stands for. Airtel is going global. It ha
presence in 19 countries in both Asia an
Africa. It acquired Warid in Bangladesand Zain Telecom in Africa in past past
months. So, there is a need for a single
powerful and unified face of the compan
to stand to its customers.
As explained by the company, the ne
logo is modern, vibrant and friendly an
signals their resolution to be accessible t
the customers while maintaining their cor
brand elements (e.g. red colour). Thchange from uppercase A to lowercas
a signals humility. Also, the famous Airt
jingle created by A. R. Rehman has bee
changed as well. It has become a techn
mix kind of sound with the old core tune a
the background. This would help th
company to connect with the youth whic
is the biggest customer group in th
countries in which Airtel operates. Th
tagline has shifted from Express Yourse
to Dil Jo Chahe Pass Laye which aga
shows an attempt to increase accessibilit
of the brand. The new advertiseme
shows setup in some European count
again hinting on the fact that Airtel is
global brand.
Airtel Rebranding: Was it needed?-Rishi Arora
DoMS, IIT-Roorkee
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The opinions standing against this wholeexercise have their logic too. Firstly, therebranding is done whenever a brand is notperforming according to the expectationsand is too old to connect to the people. Thiswas the need of Videocon which rebrandeditself few months ago but this was not in thecase of Airtel. It is a leading brand which is
very popular among its customer base.
So why rebrand? Secondly, the cost of thisexercise is estimated to be around Rs. 300crores. This is a hell of a lot of money if yousee it as a marketing expenditure andcompare it to that of the other companies.Thirdly, the new Airtel logo is seen as a copyof the new Videocon logo and the font isseen as copied from Vodafone logo by thegeneral public. True or not, it still creates a
negative image in the minds of consumers.
There are some other counter points on thiscampaign as well. The company has madethe a lowercase and gives humility as areason for it. Now if majority of thepopulation in Africa and Asia dont knowEnglish, then how can they comprehendhumility? Do you really think there wouldsomeone in interior Karnataka in India or onthe outskirts of Chittagong or in some small
village in Africa who would go for a mobilephone connection, look at the Airtel symboland think Hmm!! Now theres a brand withhumility if there was ever one!! I think Ishould buy it!! Are you kidding me??
says the marketing blog of IIM CalcuttAlso, Airtels new positioning again focuson making consumers to connect to eaother.
Now every other telecom company dothe act of connecting. How is Airdifferentiating itself from others? If we kecriticism apart and look to the execution the rebranding campaign, it was superb. one or two days of announcing the nelogo on TV and in print, the compachanged all its old logos from streets ashops. Whole trains (Delhi-BangaloRajdhani) were painted red in Airtecolors. For two days, homepages of Timof India and Yahoo were overtaken fadvertising. Every effort was made so ththere is no contradiction between the o
logo and the new logo among tcustomers.
In this early situation, one cannot commeon the necessity of this rebrandibecause it has not started reaping its fruiThe campaign will end sometime January. Also, the annual fiscresults/quarter results would comsomewhere in April or May when the effeof this rebranding will be somewhat visib
on Airtels international markets.
This rebranding campaign can creawonders and can write its own history bat the same time, it can crash like a planbeing flown without any directions by CaLaunch Pad. What happens to it is whremains to be seen.
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-Fresh Green Creativity, right from the roots of DOMS
through the leaves of this newsletter
When Going Gets ToughFailiure stares me like a hawk,
Difficulty stands like a rock,
I am in shock,
So much that I just cant talk,
Try, but fail to reach the dock,
Life is not a cakewalk
Seems that my future is locked,
To avoid failiure, new plans I chalk,
But fail
And wait for misfortune to knock,9
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But then.Echoes my heart with firm conviction,Your fear of failiure is just an illusion,Even mountains are moved with true determination,Love can be won by intense passion,
Only if you move in your soul s directionUnfallible commitment can win over nations,Impossible can be achieved by imagination,So shed all your deviations,And dont be swayed by temporary emotions,
So when strikes crisis, keep your feet moving,Coz when going gets tough, TOUGH gets going.
- Harsh Singh
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1) In 1948, this head of India's largest business conglomerate launched
Air India International as India's first international airline. Name this
Bharat Ratna Awardee who also has the distinction of being India's
first pilot.
2) A recent Hollywood movie by the name 'The Social Network' is based
on the life of the founder of a social networking site which has
revenue of over US $800 million. Name this Harvard dropoutAmerican entrepreneur.
3) In economics, an oligopolistic market structure (dominated by a small
number of sellers), the market players use this theory to model their
behavior in taking strategic decisions. Which theory is this, which also
has wide-ranging application in other fields as well such as biology,political science, computer science and philosophy?
4) As Pioneer of the co-operative movement in India, this diary co-
operative organization has revenue of over Rs 67.11 Billion and was
founded in 1946. Name this largest exporter of dairy products in the
country.
5) This Theory was developed by Nassim Nicholas Taleb and captured inhis book by the same name published in 2007 which explains the
disproportionate role of high-impact, hard to predict, and rare events
that are beyond the realm of normal expectations in history, science,
finance and technology. Examples of such events are Internet, the
personal computer, the September 11 attack etc. Name this theory.
6) What connects the following terms?
Dogs: Cash Cows: Stars: Question Mark
-Rajneesh and Anirudh
DoMS, IIT-Roorkee
Its Exquizite, Kills your Quriosity and adds to your Quizdom. Need we say more?
Qutopia A Utopia of the best Biz Quiz Tidbits to wreck your brains! Mail in youranswers to [email protected]. The winner will have their names published inthe next issue. Answers in the next issue ofDoMination.
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1. In the field of mergers and acquisitions, this is devised as a kind of defensive tactic used by
corporations board of directors against a takeover and it typically involves a scheme
whereby shareholders will have the right to buy more shares at a discount, if one
shareholder buys a certain percentage of the company's shares. What is this tactic against
hostile takeover better known as?
2. This is the practice of purchasing enough shares in a firm to threaten a hostile takeover and
thereby forcing the target firm to buy those shares back at a premium in order to suspend
the takeover. What is the name given to this practice?
3. In 2006, a leading technology company acquired this San Bruno, California based company
specializing in a video sharing website on which users could upload, share and view videos.
The deal was worth $1.65 billion. Name both the companies involved?
4. In the largest takeover deal by an Indian company, Tata Steel acquired the Corus Group in
an all cash deal totaling to $12.04 Billion in early 2007. The Tata Steel bid was challenged bythe Brazilian steel maker CSN (Companhia Siderrgica Nacional) with a counter bid. In the
auction process that followed taking nine rounds to find the winner, what was the final
offer in pence per share that Tata Steel offered to clinch the deal?
5. As Lehman Brother filed for the largest bankruptcy in the history of United States in
September 2008, this Japanese based major industrial and financial conglomerate agreed to
buy the Lehman Brothers Holdings's investment banking and equities unit in Asia-pacific
and Europe. What is the name of this financial holding company?
6. Wells Fargo acquired this bank turned financial-service Company in an all stock deal of$15.1 billion in 2008. This company was also ranked among the top 50 in the Fortune
Global 500 list before going defunct in the financial crisis of 2008. Name the Company?
The Answers of Qutopia-10 were:
1) A shareholder rights plan popularly known as a poison pill
2) Greenmail or greenmailing. The term is a neologism derived from "blackmail" and
"greenback".
3) The leading technology company is Google which in October 2006 acquired YouTube.
4) The final offer by Tata Steel to acquire Corus Group was 608 pence per share which was 5
pence more than CSN which offered 603 pence per share.
5) Nomura Holdings, the financial holding company which is a part of the Nomura Group.
6) Wachovia which has now merged with Wells Fargo.
Winners are:
Anuj Gandhi (Executive, Transportation Systems Group, BHEL)
Arnab Basu (DOMSIITR 2007-09)
Harish Nagwani (AMA, Ahmedabad)
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