Unprecedented bribery charges, farewells, separation, failed union, monumental mergers and record-breaking IPOs, along with a healthy dose of online happenings in the form of spat and lessons in customer care, corporate India saw it all in 2024.
'I don't think I ever lost the confidence as an actor.'
Aditya Puri has a higher yearly pay of 9.7 crore, plus stock options, at HDFC Bank.
Puri has been at the helm of the bank since its inception in 1994.
Paresh Sukthankar, the heir apparent to Aditya Puri, prefers an approach that is in sharp contrast to Puri's.
These are the highest-earning bank CEOs in India.
Bollywood doesn't need fire-breathing dragons when it has Bhai.
With Rs 17,087 crore raised so far this calendar year, the total is already 2.4 times that of the full year of 2023, which stood at Rs 7,266 crore.
For over a decade, HDFC Bank consistently outperformed industry growth rates in both deposits and advances, maintaining impeccable asset quality. Amid a landscape where other banks struggled with soaring non-performing assets (NPAs), HDFC Bank thrived, eventually surpassing ICICI Bank to become the largest private sector lender in India. Its net interest margin (NIM) remained stable in the range of 4.1-4.4 per cent.
Many interesting films with A-Listers line up for release in June.
The fundamental issue between banks and fintech would be who will own the customer and who will be the service provider.
Unlike any other business, banking is a turf where the captain's role is the most critical. Often a bank is defined by the personality of the CEO who runs it. Both HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank are the creation of their CEOs, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The Birlas have earlier forayed only in the entertainment business and in 2003 launched a movie and television software production company called Applause Entertainment, best known for producing Hindi movie Black, starring Amitabh Bachchan.
When costs go down, interest rates will go down, says managing director and CEO Aditya Puri.
McDonald's asks the consumer whether he wants a hamburger with cheese, with tomato or without tomato. We will also have to deliver products as and when and how the customer wants.
The law firm had specifically named the bank's chief executive and managing director of over 25 years, Aditya Puri, his designated successor Sashidhar Jagdishan and company secretary Santosh Haldankar as defendants.
HDFC Bank on Friday ruled out acquisitions or mergers at present but said it hopes to grow by 25-30 per cent in the next two-three years.
Talks of a merger between HDFC Bank and parent HDFC Ltd had gained steam nearly eight years ago, when the Reserve Bank of India allowed banks to issue long-term bonds to fund infrastructure and affordable housing. At that time, key executives at both entities denied any such proposal. And today, the merger has been officially announced by the two players.
Nadella has been ranked fifth among 50 global corporate heads by Fortune Magazine in its annual 'Businessperson of the Year' compilation, followed by CEO of Milwaukee-based maker of water heaters A O Smith Ajita Rajendra on the 34th spot, HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri on the 36th position and Banga on 40th.
RBI has increased its key rates 10 times since March 2010.
We believe the retail banking still remains a great opportunity. It is a long-term story. The level of penetration of the retail credit in India is estimated around 10 per cent of GDP as against other Asian countries, where it is 30-40 per cent.
"The GDP growth projections are 5 per cent for this year and 5.5-7 per cent next year, which are very good in the current context. So we are doing relatively well," says HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri.
'He's at best a holding-CEO. Not one who will re-imagine the bank,' a senior banker and former colleague tells Raghu Mohan about HDFC Bank CEO & MD Sashidhar Jagdishan.
Sashidhar Jagdishan, managing director and chief executive officer of HDFC Bank, the largest private-sector lender of the country, has just completed his first term. The period October 2020-October 2023 was a roller coaster, and the second one, which started on October 27, could be more interesting as the lender absorbs the impact of the merger of HDFC, which was integrated on July 1, and moves to the next growth phase. Soon after he took over the reins from Aditya Puri on October 27, 2020, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) debarred HDFC Bank from enrolling new credit card customers and launching new products under the Digital 2.0 programme due to repeated outages on its mobile-banking and internet-banking platforms.
BPOs can transform the face of rural India if they can retain even a small proportion of educated youth in villages.
Housing Development Finance Corporation on Thursday said it would consider increasing the corporate lending rates but would not hike the interest rate on retail loans.
HDFC Bank, which is set to overtake India's largest private sector bank ICICI in branch network by merging Centurion Bank of Punjab with itself, is now keen to expand overseas to tap the non-resident Indian market. "We have applied for licences in Bahrain and Hong Kong. We have a representative office in Dubai, while CBoP has one in Canada," HDFC Bank Managing Director Aditya Puri said.
HDFC Bank on Tuesday ruled out merger with its parent HDFC or acquiring smaller banks in the near future, but said it has embarked on an aggressive organic growth path in India and abroad.\n\n
HDFC Bank has partnered with National Insurance Company and Mastercard International to launch its "HDFC Bank Health Plus Credit Card" and expects to sell 15,000-20,000 cards in the first year of the alliance.
Private equity firm Carlyle Group and associates will acquire a controlling stake of over 50 per cent in PNB Housing Finance by investing in the Rs 4,000 crore preferential issue of equity and warrants of the Delhi-based mortgage lender. After the proposed transactions, expected to be completed by January 1, 2022, Carlyle will also have the right to nominate the chairperson of PNB Housing Finance (PNB HF). This right will continue as long as it holds at least 40 per cent of the share capital on a fully diluted basis.
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Under its plans to increase the retail base in India, HDFC Bank Ltd is to open another 100 branches in this fiscal, taking the total network to around 300 by March, and set up 1,500 point of sales (POS) every month in the country.
Group firms working on sound footing
A media report in the run up to the board meet had mentioned the names of Sashidhar Jagdishan, Kaizad Bharucha and Sunil Garg as the ones who had made the cut. Jagdishan and Bharucha are internal candidates, while Garg is working with American banking major Citigroup.
While the Aam Aadmi Party is contesting on four seats, the Congress has fielded candidates for the remaining three seats.
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The country's second largest private sector lender HDFC Bank promoted Paresh Sukthankar as the deputy managing director.
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