Page 10 - Finance Interviews

Concerted steps needed to curb fake digital apps: FACE CEO Sugandh Saxena

All apps, including legal ones with sophisticated cyber security protocols, are prone to fraud and cyber threats, said Saxena

What is First Global's Shankar Sharma investment strategy?

Markets are in turbulence. Business Standard's Puneet Wadhwa caught up with Shankar Sharma, founder of First Global, to understand how he's tackling the ongoing headwinds and his investment strategy

India the place to be in now, says HSBC India CEO Hitendra Dave

'We are in growth, customer acquisition, and balance-sheet expansion mode'

Will list subsidiaries at opportune time: SBI chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara

'We have a healthy conduit of proposals for corporate loans under review', said SBI chairman

'We expect a hike in deposit rates', says RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das

'With regard to breaching the inflation target framework, we will deal with it as and when the situation arises'

The corporate card market is ripe for change: Volopay's Rohit Bhageria

We have raised approximately $32 million in a mix of debt and equity, Bhageria said

Good times may be around the corner: Federal Bank CEO Shyam Srinivasan

'On balance, most of us have come out fairly unscathed with good-quality provisioning and portfolios', said Srinivasan

Customer trusts the physical bank branch, says Bandhan Bank MD & CEO

'When we started the bank seven years back, 98 per cent of the loan book was micro and group loans; now it is 47 per cent'

'RBI rate hike was moderate as CRR was also raised': Ashima Goyal

Monetary policy committee says decision to cut repo rate was at the correct time.

Expect slippages, credit cost to come down further: Bank of Baroda MD & CEO

Sanjiv Chadha, in an interview with Manojit Saha, says it was a conscious decision not to chase corporate loans and focused on segments offering higher margins

Cost-income ratio will come down for IDFC First, says CEO Vaidyanathan

Lender sees growth in new gold loan business and it is scaling up wealth management unit, he says

Our job is to take RuPay to everyone, says NPCI COO Praveena Rai

Praveena Rai, chief operating officer, National Payments Corporation of India speaks to Subrata Panda about the journey of RuPay and the aim of the umbrella organisation for operating retail payments

Missing inflation mandate is a possibility: RBI's MPC member Jayanth Varma

'The markets should not assume we will guide them, because the data is coming without warning', said Varma

Home loans to be cheaper as bank has low-cost deposits: HDFC Bank chairman

Cost-wise, the housing loans would certainly come at a cheaper cost because the bank has low-cost deposits or Casa [current and savings account]

Baroda BNP Paribas MF's Suresh Soni on markets and more

Baroda Mutual Fund and BNP Paribas Mutual Fund recently merged to become Baroda BNP Paribas Mutual Fund. Its CEO Suresh Soni spoke to Krishna Veera Vanamali on markets and the mutual fund industry

Richard Turrin on China's official digital currency

In a chat with Business Standard's Vikram Gopal, author and fintech expert Richard Turrin tells about how China is moving ahead with its digital currency. He also clears some air on its Indian version

MFIs' qualifying asset threshold has to be lowered, says Alok Misra

'MFIN has been pushing its members to do daily reporting to credit bureaus', said Misra

Spike in credit demand from corporate, RAM segments: Indian Bank MD & CEO

In a Q&A, Shanti Lal Jain talks about recovery in demand, bad loan trends and the status of Covid recast

IFC will continue to raise annual India investments: South Asia Director

In a Q&A, Hector Gomez Ang asserts that the institution's India portfolio has delivered strong development and financial returns despite Covid-19

Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj on revenue estimates, capital gains etc

Business Standard's Arup Roychoudhury and Asit Ranjan Mishra spoke to Revenue Secretary Tarun Bajaj to know about revenue estimates and recent taxes levied on cryptocurrencies. Let's listen in