Wednesday, July 22, 2009

NRB to hand over management of Bank of Kathmandu back

Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) will handover the management of Bank of Kathmandu (BoK) back to the bank's new Board of Directors (BoD) tomorrow after BoK's special AGM today formed the new board.
"The present management committee appointed by NRB for using the authority of BoD -- led by Laxmi Prapanna Niroula as co-ordinator and Ramesh Kumar Pokharel, Prem Prasad Pandey, Murari Basnet as members -- will hand over the management to the new BoK board tomorrow," said a source at NRB. "The NRB board meeting tomorrow will ask the Niroula-led NRB team to handover the management and come back," the source said adding that the NRB team is mandated to hand over the management to the new board members after BoK's special AGM.
BoK today elected four directors from public shareholders -- Govinda Regmi, Bishnu Banjade, Narendra Basnyat and Dr Hem Subedi -- and unnanimously selected three directors Ramesh Nath Dhungel, Bijaya Krishna Shrestha and Satya Narayan Manandhar from the promoters.
Five contestants from the public -- along with former director Balaram Neupane -- had filed their candidacy for the four positions as a majority of BoK's shares is with the public. The promoters are only 42 per cent stakeholders.
Earlier on May 19, NRB had taken over the bank's management suspending its board and had sent a four-member team led by NRB executive director Niroula. This was after the BoK board's controversial decision to 'call back' Radhesh Pant from the post of managing director.
The crisis precipitated after the 313th board meeting of BoK on March 22, which decided to recall Pant from the post of MD. Though the decision was taken by a majority of the board members, Pant was not given a chance to furnish his explanation. Four directors voted against him while two -- Sitaram Thapaliya and Sudarshan Poudel -- supported him.
NRB took over the bank's management to safeguard the investors' and promoters' interests due to dispute among board members and also to send a strong signal that the regulatory authority of the monetary market was keeping a hawk's eye on financial institutions. It is empowered to take over the management of any financial institution under NRB Act 2063 (Section 54) after giving it a seven-day chance to furnish an explanation.
However, NRB revoked its earlier decision to suspend the directors on June 25 and allowed them to contest in the special AGM after the suspended board realised its mistake and agreed to work together for the betterment of the bank, investors and promoters.The suspended board members, who had moved the Supreme Court against 'NRB intervention' -- in their own words -- also withdrew the case.
NRB published a Due Deligence Audit report on June 27 and called the special AGM of the bank -- established on March 3, 1995, as the 10th commercial bank -- for today.

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