The paper examines the corporate governance, board characteristics, performance and asset quality of Indian banks and investigates the impact of a set of board characteristics on performance and asset quality of banks. We use a sample of 34 scheduled commercial banks, for ten years from 2009 to 2018, accounting for about 90% of the total banking assets and banking business India. We measure bank performance by return on assets (ROA) and asset quality of banks by ratio of net non-performing assets (NNPA) and document evidence on the role of the board characteristics on performance and asset quality of banks. The study finds that the board size and percentage of independent directors have significantly positive impact on ROA. The percentage of executive directors is having significantly negative relationship with the ROA. The board size and percentage of independent directors have significantly negative relationship with banks' NNPAs. The research suggests that the board of directors play a significant role in bank governance in India. The paper contributes to the literature on the corporate governance of banks in India, which is one of the emerging economies of the world. The research results provide some insights of corporate governance to the RBI for considering appropriate policy guidelines on corporate governance to banking industry in India.

The primary objective of this paper is to examine the market risk and liquidity risk management techniques and practices followed by the Indian scheduled commercial banks (SCB) consisting of public sector banks (PSBs) and private sector banks (PVSBs) for five years from 2016-17 to 2020-21. The other objective is to compare market and liquidity risk management practices between the public sector banks (PSBs) and private sector of banks (PVSBs). The other purpose of the study is to review the strategies adopted by the SCBs in risk management practices. To study the risk management practices, six largest banks each from PSBs and PVSBs are taken for sample study. This study finds that the SCBs are facing credit risk, market risk (Interest rate risk, foreign exchange risk, commodity price risk and equity price risk,) liquidity risk and operational risk. It also finds that the PSBs are better reporting and presenting their risk management practices in their annual reports than that of PVSBs in risk identification, risk assessment and risk analysis. The results indicate that there is no significant difference between the PVSBs and PSBs in the policies and practices of market risk and liquidity risk assessment, evaluation, monitoring risk controlling and risk taking. This paper will be relevant and value to those interested in research in the risk management banking industry. This is a descriptive research based on secondary data.

The study examines the corporate governance practices and analyzes the role of the board characteristics (size of the board, the composition of the board, and functioning of the board) on the performance and asset quality of banks. We use a sample of 34 commercial banks consisting of 19 public sector banks and 15 private sector banks from 2009 to 2018 accounting for 93 percent of the total banking industry in India. The study finds that busy directors and the number of meetings have a positive significance on bank performance. The percentage of independent directors and the percentage of busy directors influence a significant negative relationship on the net non-performing assets ratio. The board size and number of meetings are associated negatively with Tobin's Q significantly and the percentage of busy directors is a significantly positive impact on Tobin's Q. The board size has a significantly negative impact on bank performance. The research findings provide some insights into corporate governance to the RBI for considering appropriate policy guidelines on corporate governance in the banking industry in India. The paper adds to the existing literature on corporate governance mechanisms and banking industry performance.

Dividend policy relevance has been researched extensively, but little consensus has been built from the findings. There are many factors that affect a given firm's dividend policy which can be found in the literature such as risk faced by the firm, cash flow situation of the firm, agency costs etc. According to Bhattacharya (1979) dividend decision of a firm can be seen as a source of signal which shows that profitable firms with good project investment opportunities will pay higher dividends to present themselves distinct from other firms which are having projects with lesser profits. This paper attempts to analyze whether the dividend policy of a firm affects the market value of a firm and the shareholders' wealth. We have set our objective to find out the impact of dividend policy on the shareholders' wealth in the Indian electrical equipment manufacturing industry. For this, we have adopted a sample of dividend paying electrical machinery manufacturing companies listed in Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). There were totally 439 companies in the industry of electrical machinery manufacturing. Out of them 194 companies were listed in the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and there were 72 companies paying dividends frequently. Therefore the data of these 72 companies were taken into consideration. Our study revealed the empirical evidence with some of the dividend irrelevance theories such as M&M. The results indicate that there is a negative non-linear association between market value of a share and the dividend yields.

This case is an appeal matter with the Stock Exchange on the award passed by the sole arbitrator with regard to a dispute between a client and trading member of the Stock Exchange. Mumbai Capitals Ltd. contended that the award passed by the arbitrator did not take into account of the evidences, supported documents and rules of stock exchange appropriately while determining the case matter and passing the award. Appellant challenged the Award on grounds that the award was beyond the scope of submissions to the arbitration, pre-mediated conclusion, non-application of mind, ignorance of established judicial principles, and misreading of the provisions of stock exchange. The Appellate Tribunal had to determine whether there had been any lapses on the part of the arbitrator in applying the trading rules and procedures of the exchange while analyzing the matter, determining the case and passing the award. Based on that, the Appellant Arbitral Tribunal had to decide whether to set aside the award passed by sole arbitrator, modify the award or uphold it.