Banks and insurers are beginning to reward customers who show exemplary conduct with lower prices and penalise those who behave poorly by imposing higher costs.
Barclays is not alone in trying to decide the best size and shape of its investment bank in a changed regulatory landscape.
Bankers and executives involved in ATM operations said challenges abounded in this segment.
StanChart India CEO Zarin Daruwala is building a culture of 'celebrating liabilities,' the tough negotiator tells Niraj Bhatt and Anup Roy over lunch.
Indian banks are the 2nd-fastest-growing ones.
Cheil India has a strong presence in the retail and shopper marketing space.
Riding on a stock market boom since 2009, India Inc's chief executives have been able to salvage a lot of lost pride in their second innings.
'By not letting bankrupt banks fail, we have discouraged ordinary folk from taking precautions while choosing their bank or at least when they hear bad news about their bank,'says S Muralidharan, former MD, BNP Paribas.
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Most infra projects have hit a road block due to high cost of funds.
'If you want to live a happy life, you have to help the downtrodden. You have to understand that you have been given a position which is a confluence of your own capability and the grace of God. You must use that position to exemplify to others what has to be followed.'
Currently, foreign lenders are present in India only through branches or representative offices.
KV Kamath has had a tough journey so far.
Your social media profile may soon be your ticket to a loan or a credit card, says Abhishek Agarwal
New offerings by banks are changing the way you transact.
Most players will need to burn the midnight oil to meet the deadline for creating a bank as well as specific norms set by RBI.
Abhishek Agarwal takes a controversial view on how our dreams are being mortgaged by EMIs we keep paying month after month.
At ATMs, as a step to avoid getting Rs 2,000 notes, people are withdrawing Rs 1,900 in Rs 100 notes and then putting another request for the balance Rs 600, so that they remain within the limit of Rs 2,500 per day of withdrawal.
Chanda Kochhar is among the three Indians in Time's Most Influential list.
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