Saturday, September 26, 2015

The Lessons from Volkswagen for banks...

  • Deterioration in values and integrity has moved up to a corporate level.
  • Managers, in their pursuit of profits, tend to take advantage of the lag in supervisory oversight. 
  • Tricking the regulator becomes a  corporate  game.
  • As margins become thinner and competition gets fiercer, banks give regulations a go by. This  was proved in the LIBOR fixing scandal as also in the money laundering charges against some international banks  like HSBC, 
  • Changing CEOs do not  change work cultures - they are  profit seeking corporations looking for shareholder rather than stakeholder value additions. 
  •  As supervisors are  obsessed with fine tuning their innumerable speeches, the corporations nicely cover up the tracks on  misdeeds.  
  • Company values and ethics take a rear seat as market dynamics stall a company. 
  • Over riding purpose veers around to  monetary results in line with the share holders expectations.

                  Views expressed are academic expressions. 

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