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NAFCUB
NATIONAL FEDERATION OF URBAN COOP. BANKS & CREDIT SOCIETIES LTD.
B-14, 3 rd Floor, A- Block Shopping Complex, Naraina Vihar, Ring Road, New Delhi-110028,
Telephone : 91 – 11 – 25771170 , 25770108 Fax : 01 – 11 – 25779710
MESSAGE
The seminar would be doing a great service to the urban cooperative banking sector if it could bring home
to the participating bankers importance of the changes taking place are beyond the usual banking we all
are used to and also make them understand that this realisation is in fact most critical for survival and future
growth of the cooperative banks.
“Beyond Conventional Banking: Critical for Survival & Growth” is a theme that could not have been more
timely in the present day context for our sector, and I must applaud NAFCUB and B2B Infomedia for
choosing the subject.
Among all the segments of banking system in the Country, urban cooperative banking sector is in possession
of largest number of banking licences and that too of ‘universal banks ‘, which per se is far more valuable
that the licences given to operate narrow banks like ‘payment banks’ and ‘small finance banks’.
Therefore, it is all the more important that we face the fury of disruptive banking forces that are threatening
to sweep away the conventional banking into oblivion. Most of our banks are small and are at risk of being
too fragile to meaningfully face the future and its challenges.
We in NAFCUB have realised that large number of our urban banks need strong support and put forward a
proposal to RBI for the sector to promote its own umbrella organisation that will be able to steer them
through the disruptive changes that we are going through in the financial sector across the world. The
approval of RBI is expected to be conveyed soon and it will be a challenge to the sector to promote and put
in place a financially strong and professionally managed entity as its umbrella Organisation at the earliest.
I am sure that the deliberations in the seminar will throw up suggestions that will help the banks in
formulating policies and drawing up roadmaps that will help them to think beyond the conventional banking
they have been engaged in all along and to meet the challenges of newer and more tech savvy financial
institutions in coming days.
JYOTINDRA MEHTA
PRESIDENT
NAFCUB
3 RD ALL INDIA UCB SUMMIT 2019
B2B INFOMEDIA 7