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Mr Kapoor was arrested and formally charged on March 8th with money laundering and corruption, which he denies.
3月8日，Kapoor被捕并被正式指控犯有洗錢和腐敗罪，但他對此予以否認。
He becomes merely the latest among once-prominent Indian financiers to find themselves in the hands of the law.
在印度曾經顯赫的金融家中，他只不過是最近一個受到法律制裁的人。
As the bank's customers lined up in the streets to withdraw money from ATMs,
隨著銀行客戶在街上排隊從ATM機里取錢，
others found their electronic payments disrupted, a consequence of Yes's pivotal role in India's digital-payments architecture.
其他客戶發現他們的電子支付被中斷，這是Yes在印度數字支付體系中扮演關鍵角色的結果。
The finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, sought to allay depositors' fears
印度財政部長爾馬拉·西塔拉曼尋求緩和儲戶的擔心
by pledging that no financial institution would "fall of the cliff" during her tenure.
她承諾在她的任期內，不會有任何金融機構“掉下懸崖”。
The RBI attested to the soundness of the banks and the safety of depositors.
RBI證明了銀行的穩健和儲戶的安全。
Less reassuringly, the comments echoed what they had both said in September during the collapse of yet another financial institution,
讓人不安心的是，此番言論和他們兩人去年9月在又一家金融機構倒閉時的言論如出一轍，
the Punjab and Maharashtra Co-operative Bank.
這家機構是Punjab and Maharashtra合作銀行。
While the technical issues were swiftly sorted out, fundamental ones remain.
雖然技術問題很快得到解決，但基本問題依然存在。
The resolution plan was far short of the $4bn needed for provisioning, reckons Ashish Gupta, an analyst at Credit Suisse, a bank.
瑞士信貸銀行的分析師Ashish Gupta認為解決方案遠達不到撥備所需的40億美元。
SBI has said it does not intend to merge with Yes, leaving the latter's fate unclear and,
SBI曾表示其不打算和Yes合并，這讓后者的命運變得撲朔迷離，
to use Mr Gupta's careful phrasing, its "reconstruction…unlikely".
用Gupta的謹慎措辭來說，它“重組...是不可能的了”。
The chaotic approach has complicated the life of other small and mid-sized banks,
他表示，這種混亂的做法使其它中小型銀行的生存變得復雜，
he says, affecting their liquidity and ability to raise deposits, which in turn may aggravate the country's deepening credit crunch.
影響到了他們的流動性和增加存款的能力，反過來可能會加劇該國日益嚴重的信貸緊縮。
This half-baked outcome was not inevitable. A private-equity investor says he heard of more than 40 private-equity firms,
這種不成熟的結果并不是不可避免的。一名私募股權投資者稱，他聽說超過40家私人股本公司
mostly from outside India, who had expressed interest in buying Yes,
都表示有興趣買下Yes，其中大部分都是境外公司，
only to be dissuaded at the last minute by the thicket of regulations, particularly for foreign investors, not to mention the business risks.
他們都在最后一刻卻被錯綜復雜的監管規定（尤其是針對外國投資者的規定）勸退了，更不用提其中的商業風險。
A handful of the same names are reported to be in discussions with SBI about buying stakes.
據報道，其中幾家公司正與SBI就入股事宜進行談判。
Yet falling stock-markets and financial mayhem make it an inopportune time for dealmaking.
然而，股市下跌和金融混亂使得現在不是做交易的好時機。
Many of the former optimists of Indian finance who bought into Mr Kapoor's story may never say yes so eagerly again.
很多之前相信了Kapoor的故事并對印度金融持樂觀態度的人，可能再也不會如此熱切地說“是”了。
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