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Bank, Boom, Bust -George Mathew, Sunny Verma & Sandeep Singh

-The Indian Express

In 2004, a former bank executive started his own bank. As it grew, courting corporates, lending aggressively and dodging referees, the bad loans grew too. Until one day, the bank went belly up. The Indian Express on how the story of Yes Bank and Rana Kapoor is of warning bells that went unheard.

After providing services to Yes Bank for years, a vendor was keen to terminate the contract. But no sooner had he left the Yes Bank office after communicating this to the bank’s then CEO Rana Kapoor, than he got a call from Kapoor’s secretary seeking an seeking an appointment the next day to “sort things out”. The following morning, half an hour before the appointed time, there landed at the vendor’s office hundreds of small pots of money plant, along with an expensive art piece. As well as a letter from Kapoor to the vendor, in which he called the latter a “partner” in Yes Bank’s growth story, and apologised “for not valuing the services offered”. The letter also promised to triple the fee Yes Bank would pay henceforth. Even as the vendor was recovering from all the activity around his office, Kapoor walked in at the appointed hour to talk the vendor out of his decision. Needless to say, the vendor stayed on.

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