New dimensions and directions for Indian banking industry

Indian banking system is going through a transitional stage where profitability is the only key to success and efficiency and any threat to this efficiency or success should be removed immediately. Profits of banks depends upon their income and expenditure trends, more the income and less the expenditures, the more is the profitability. Keeping this thing in mind, a comparative study of different bank groups is done w.r.t. their income and expenditure trends. For that the entire banking industry is divided into five groups namely nationalized banks, SBI and its associate banks, old private sector banks, new private sector banks and foreign banks. The study finds that new private sector banks are most successful in increasing their profitability and foreign banks are least successful in this area during the study period of 2008 to 2011.