New Delhi- India will soon have more domestic lenders featured in the top 100 global banks list, given the pace of economic expansion and growth in the banking system, RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Thursday.

Interacting with the students after delivering VKRV Rao Memorial Lecture at the Delhi School of Economics here, the governor said the RBI can not put a number of big banks India should have in the global list.

Expressing optimism, Malhotra said, “…there are many banks in the public sector space and in private sector…the pace at which they are growing, I think it is only a matter of time that we will have a number of banks, quite a few banks, in the top hundred banks of the world”.

Currently, only State Bank of India (SBI) and HDFC Bank appear among the world’s top 100 banks,

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