'Sebi had no problem with derivatives until trading exploded after Covid.' 'But now, having built a dangerous road, from which different entities, mainly governments, are extracting a heavy toll, Sebi is concerned that people are driving on it in much greater numbers,' explains Debashis Basu.
Amid speculations that negotiations between the warring Ambani brothers have resumed after the stormy board meeting of flagship company Reliance Industr
Experts interviewed CMDs of nine public sector banks on Friday and Kamath is believed to be in the reckoning
Indian women's team eased past Uzbekistan while the men endured successive defeats with the loss to South Korea in the World Table Tennis Team Championships in Busan on Monday.
Kamath, who succeeded N R Narayana Murthy at the Bengaluru-headquartered, Nasdaq-listed firm, nearly a month ago, said Infosys is a well-established company with processes which are clearly defined, and his role would be what is expected of an independent non executive board chairman, namely governance oversight.
Under KV Kamath's leadership, ICICI Bank's revenues grew multi-fold.
'If you are a professional journalist, don't ever think that your work is going to bring in revolution or that you are going to change the world. That job is best left to the revolutionaries,' M V Kamath, the legendary journalist who passed away on October 9, told Nitin Gokhale.
India won seven of the nine races held on the last day of the swimming competition at the 10th South Asian Games.
Lots of romance and action on OTT this week. Sukanya Verma lists her recommendations.
When the artery going to the brain gets clogged or closes off, and a part of the brain goes without blood for too long, it is called an ischemic stroke.
After 24 years at the helm, Narayan Vaghul, the non-executive chairman of ICICI Bank, will call it a day in March next year. His protege and the current chief executive officer and managing director K V Kamath is likely to step into Vaghul's shoes after his term ends in April.
IT major HCL Technologies' Shiv Nadar has retained his position as the 'most generous Indian' in 2023 as well, with a 76 per cent jump in his donations at Rs 2,042 crore. Wipro's Azim Premji's donations zoomed by 267 per cent to Rs 1,774 crore during the same year, according to the Edelgive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2023 released on Thursday. Richest Indian Mukesh Ambani donated Rs 376 crore in the year, which is an 8 per cent decline.
Things have changed dramatically for India Inc post liberalisation in 1991. Business Standard catches up with three industry veterans on what reforms meant in the early days and what lies ahead . . .
The activity taking place in the SME sector is phenomenal. I think we are seeing a new breed of entrepreneurs, says ICICI Bank CEO K V Kamath.
ICICI Bank's Managing Director and Chief Executive K V Kamath is of the opinion that inspite of the marginal dip in growth India's long-term economic growth potential remains sustainable. However, he said the growth may slip from the previous 10 per cent level to around 8 per cent this fiscal. The services sector, contributing 60% to GDP, will help sustain the growth path. He said present inflation is a supply-side phenomenon and is not due to any over-heating in the economy.
The CEO of ICICI Bank is the third Indian in four years to win the accolade.
BJP MLAs Bharat Y Shetty and Vedavyas Kamath had taken up the issue and demanded stringent action against the teacher or else face protests.
His sole ambition is to provide employment to 10,000 people.
A prominent Indian diaspora body has urged various agencies of the US government, universities and student associations to work towards addressing the spike in the deaths of Indian-origin students in the US in recent months.
ICICI Bank Chairman K V Kamath on Thursday disagreed with the suggestion of SBI chief Pratip Chaudhuri that RBI should scrap CRR, saying it is part of the monetary policy and no issue can be made of it.
They also clarified that both the names Bharat and India, mentioned in Article 1 of the Constitution as "India, that is Bharat...", are part of the country's history and both names are "completely legitimate".
Ajay Lakhotia, an ISB student, shares his experience of spending the day with former managing director and CEO of ICICI Bank KV Kamath and the management lessons that this young MBA grad has learnt from the banking veteran.
The fresh meat and seafood delivery startup Licious plans to set up 500 stores nationwide within the next five years as part of an omnichannel strategy. The aim is to attract new users in the offline channel and encourage them to transact online as well. The move would also help the company in its efforts to achieve profitability and go for an initial public offering (IPO) in the next 24 months, according to the sources.
Kamath said India's economic climate had started improving.
The new chairman assumes his role at perhaps one of the most challenging times for both the company and the industry.
Corporate India is not bothered about the subprime crisis. I have not seen any large business house walk away from a deal on account of lack of funding.
Nishikant Kamath speaks about his movie Force and how satisfied he is with the audience response.
Forecasting that inflation is inching towards zero, ICICI Bank managing director and chief executive officer K V Kamath on Tuesday suggested to the Reserve Bank of India to further cut key policy rates by 100 basis points as part of a calibrated move to usher in a low interest rate regime.
Exchange-traded currency derivatives volumes are likely to drop in view of new Reserve Bank of India (RBI) rules, casting a cloud over further participation of retail investors and proprietary traders. There are concerns that existing positions without any underlying exposure will need to be liquidated. Also, weighed down by dollar demand from local oil companies and weakness in its Asian peers, the rupee on Wednesday (April 3) ended at a new closing low of 83.44 versus the US currency.
The banking regulator is scheduled to come out with its monetary policy for FY 09 on April 29. "We will wait for the (RBI's) policy statement before taking any decision on our interest rates," ICICI Bank Managing Director & CEO K V Kamath told reporters on the sidelines of an Indian Merchants Chamber-organised press conference in Mumbai on Thursday. Interest rate decisions would also be influenced by prevailing market conditions, Kamath said.
Indian economy is likely to end this fiscal with over 6 per cent growth backed by industrial recovery and impressive performance of the service sector, according to ICICI Bank chief executive K V Kamath.
Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) in a statement said America's hotel owners are deeply saddened, shocked, and outraged by this senseless act of violence against a small business owner that cost him his life.
"About 70-75 per cent of the Indian economy seems to be doing better," Kamath, who is also the CEO and managing director of ICICI Bank, told private television channel CNBC TV18 during an interview. Contraction in agriculture and manufacturing have pulled down India's economic growth to 5.3 per cent in the third quarter, its lowest quarterly expansion in over five years, against 8.9 per cent in the same period a year ago.
The government should avoid euphoria about India's growth and success and should lace its policies with pragmatism, given the fact that the global situation is still unclear, ICICI Bank chairman K V Kamath said on Wednesday. "We should be prudent in the way we look at growth," Kamath told PTI in an interview on the phone from Tokyo, adding that the external sector is still a pressure point and exports have shown negative growth for seven months in a row.
Stating that India is not witnessing a slowdown in investment, Confederation of Indian Industry president K V Kamath said on Thursday that the country would continue to grow at a healthy rate of 8.6 per cent for the next five years.
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