Page 12 - Finance Interviews

Newer categories of card spend emerged amid Covid: HDFC Bank's Parag Rao

HDFC Bank executive shares insights on how the lender intends to increase its credit card market share post embargo

Festive rate cut not a mispricing of risks: Union Bank of India MD & CEO

In a Q&A, Rajkiran Rai G says retail credit can't make up for tepid corporate demand

We keep looking at meaningful growth opportunities: Suryoday SFB CEO

Amid reports of merger talks with an NBFC, R Baskar Babu says Suryoday SFB is always open for both organic and inorganic growth opportunities

We want Federal Bank to be the 'Rahul Dravid' of banking space: MD-CEO

In a Q&A, Shyam Srinivasan says he wants the lender to be a predictable and trustworthy brand. He also expects home loan interest rate wars to erupt in the festive season

We will put our cross-border platform into play, says Tide India CEO

'The Indo-UK trade involving SMEs is now at around a few billion pounds annually', says Gurujodpal Singh

Spreading disinflation over 2-3 years to reduce output loss, says RBI

'There is no blanket ban on opening of current accounts', said M Rajeshwar Rao

Retro tax must be resolved via Indian law, not arbitral award: Somanathan

Somanathan says that the government doesn't support retrospective taxation since it creates sudden and fresh liability and is not in line with the stability and predictability of taxation

In FY22, our loan book should grow by 20%: IDFC First Bank MD & CEO

V Vaidyanathan talks about the bank's growth plans, its retail-focused approach when it comes to growing its loan book, and its corporate strategy

We look to continue the pace of investing: Investcorp's Gaurav Sharma

'Indian conglomerates and companies have realised the importance of both tech and tech-enabled businesses', said Gaurav Sharma

ESG factors now part of lending decision by top banks globally: Crisil CEO

ESG will play an even bigger role in decision making both on the issue side as well as the investor side in the longer-term, says Ashu Suyash

Hope to get buyer for consumer biz by Q4: Citi India CEO Ashu Khullar

Despite being a foreign bank, we move 7-10 per cent of the Indian payment systems, says CEO Khullar

We do have banking ambitions, says Incred Group's Bhupinder Singh

BHUPINDER SINGH, the shadow banking entity's founder and chief executive officer, spoke to Raghu Mohan

Valuation of SBI, subsidiaries can be better: Chairman Dinesh Kumar Khara

The early numbers indicate that we have seen traction in the retail book. But, not much traction was seen in the corporate book, said Dinesh Khara, Chairman, SBI

Our digital model is not proprietary: Avanti Finance CEO Rahul Gupta

The digital spine we have created has not been created for ourselves - it is also for various specialists to come together for financial inclusion, says CEO Gupta

RBI has given us 120 days to operationalise SFB: Centrum's Jaspal Bindra

In an exclusive interview with Business Standard, Jaspal Bindra, executive chairman of Centrum group said it has committed Rs 1,800 cr capital to the SFB, Rs 900 cr of which will come in first year

Growth delayed, not denied due to Covid-19 wave: Axis MF's Jinesh Gopani

Markets believe growth will revive in the latter half of FY22, says executive.

MFIs, banks need to revisit micro-loan pricing: CreditAccess Grameen MD

Udaya Kumar Hebbar comes across as a contrarian when he says that the industry has learnt to navigate lockdowns

We will take the white-label route to credit cards: Ujjivan SFB CEO Chugh

Collections and disbursements were better than their pre-Covid levels across all our businesses in March, and for the quarter, said Chugh

No immediate worry about solvency due to surge in Covid claims: Irdai chief

Irdai Chairman Subhash Chandra Khuntia talks to Subrata Panda on a range of subjects including shareholding of banks in insurance firms

Our lending book makes us bigger than some banks: ABCL CEO Srinivasan

Having grown larger than some of the banks, he tells Hamsini Karthik shareholders' value enhancement possibly through value unlocking would be something that ABCL would consider going ahead