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Liability management now top priority for lenders: Private bank CEOs

Private bankers said there were signs that the credit demand was durable and as such the landscape for banks' management of assets and liabilities would remain challenging for quite some time

L to R- V Vaidyanathan, MD & CEO, IDFC First Bank; Rakesh Sharma, MD & CEO, IDBI Bank; Ashu Khullar, MD, Citi India; Hitendra Dave, India CEO, HSBC Bank; Amitabh Chaudhry, MD & CEO, Axis Bank (Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)
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L to R- V Vaidyanathan, MD & CEO, IDFC First Bank; Rakesh Sharma, MD & CEO, IDBI Bank; Ashu Khullar, MD, Citi India; Hitendra Dave, India CEO, HSBC Bank; Amitabh Chaudhry, MD & CEO, Axis Bank (Photo: Kamlesh Pednekar)

Bhaskar Dutta Mumbai
At a time when demand for loans far outstrips growth in deposits, banks must adopt much more aggressive strategies when it comes to handling their liabilities, top officials of several private lenders said at the Business Standard BFSI Insight Summit on Wednesday.

“There is a clear scramble for liabilities. As a wise man once said, everything starts with liabilities. Without that, you can’t think of all this big asset growth. It looks like the runway for credit growth is long and if deposit growth does not catch up, at some stage the credit growth will be impacted,” said Amitabh Chaudhry,

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