Indian Overseas Bank (IOB) is on a mission to retrieve its lost position in terms of business and has roped in consulting major KPMG to help it energise its human resources. M Narendra, who took charge as chairman and managing director of the Chennai-based lender in November, tells Manojit Saha the bank has rolled out a medium-term plan to increase its business and is venturing into several new businesses.

Q&A: M Narendra, CMD, Indian Overseas Bank

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The tightness in liquidity is likely to worsen with advance tax outflows. M V Nair, CMD of Union Bank of India tells Manojit Saha the situation can only improve in the next quarter.

Q&A: M V Nair, CMD, Union Bank of India

While there are some geopolitical concerns in Korea, bigger concerns are financial in nature, such as the growth rate in the US and sovereign defaults in the EU.

Market Voice: Ritu Arora, CIO, Canara HSBC OBC Life Insurance

High fee income and lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are going to be the focus areas for Allahabad Bank in the near future. The bank is also ramping up presence in the South. Chairman and Managing Director J P Dua shares his thoughts with Debasis Mohapatra on the bank&rsquo;s future and the industry&rsquo;s concerns.

Q&A: J P Dua, CMD, Allahabad Bank

After taking charge as ING Vysya Bank&rsquo;s managing director and chief executive officer last year, Shailendra Bhandari has accelerated the growth momentum. In an interview to Shilpy Sinha, he says this will have to be kept up.

Q&A: Shailendra Bhandari, MD & CEO, ING Vysya Bank

Reserve Bank of India (RBI) Governor Duvvuri Subbarao tells Manojit Saha that while the common citizen will benefit from the central bank&rsquo;s action, the policy stance is consistent with sustaining high growth in the medium term.

Q&A: Duvvuri Subbarao

On a day the Reserve Bank of India announced the ninth hike in key policy rates in just over a year, Asian Development Bank&rsquo;s Chief Economist Changyong Rhee explained to Devjyot Ghoshal that balancing growth with rising inflation was not necessarily a hard choice to make. Instead, the challenge before Indian policy makers was to make growth inclusive and manage infrastructure investments better.

Q&A: Changyong Rhee, Chief Economist, ADB

India&rsquo;s insurance market is moving to the next stage of development, believes David Nish, CEO of Standard Life Plc, the foreign partner of HDFC Life. In an interview with Niladri Bhattacharya, he says recent regulatory changes will ultimately make India a better place to invest.

Q&A: David Nish, CEO, Standard Life Plc

Aditya Puri, managing director of the country&rsquo;s second largest private sector lender, HDFC Bank, believes raising of rates would not suffice to control inflation; instead, it may slow the growth of the economy. He tells Somasroy Chakraborty how HDFC Bank plans to sustain its growth in this period of elevated interest rates.

Q&A: Aditya Puri, HDFC Bank 

India Inc&rsquo;s powerful men appear to have developed a special fondness for big cats. If Mukesh Ambani is fond of the leopard&rsquo;s sharp predatory instincts, Rana Kapoor swears by the cheetah&rsquo;s agility. But the Yes Bank founder and CEO is no copycat, write Shyamal Majumdar and Somasroy Chakraborty.

Lunch with BS: Rana Kapoor

Despite an inflationary environment, Canara Bank hopes to increase its business by 25 per cent to Rs 6,25,000 crore in the current financial year. In an interview with Debasis Mohapatra, Chairman and Managing Director S Raman talks about the company&rsquo;s strategy for the future.

Q&A: S Raman, Chairman & MD, Canara Bank

Tata Capital, a Tata Group company, is strengthening its presence in the private equity space by raising $1 billion by the end of 2011 through its funds. The company has already received commitments for $800 million, with around $600 million from foreign institutional investors, primarily based in Japan. The company has invested $150 million in six companies, two of which, are Tata Group ones.

Q&A: Praveen Kadle, MD & CEO, Tata Capital

For a long time, the government maintained that inflation was a price the country had to pay for high growth. Over the last few months, economists have debated whether high inflation should become the new normal. But most of these theories are now coming to nought, since inflation has now become the dominant theme.

Q&A: Chetan Ahya, MD, Morgan Stanley, Research

It&rsquo;s not easy to single out Pratip Chaudhuri, the unassuming new chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), from the suit-clad crowd of delegates at the Asian Development Bank&rsquo;s annual meeting, held in Hanoi recently. In an interview with Devjyot Ghoshal, the helmsman of the country&rsquo;s largest lender outlines his strategy for keeping SBI ahead.

Q&A: Pratip Chaudhuri, Chairman, SBI

Rajnikanth Patel strongly believes that &ldquo;everything you come across in your life teaches you a lesson &mdash; whether it is food, a restaurant you visit or a hobby you choose.

Lunch with BS: Rajnikant Patel

Despite the motor pool losses, Tata AIG General Insurance grew by 35 per cent in 2010-11. The company, a joint venture between the Tata Group and American International Group, Inc (AIG), aims to grow its business by 28-30 per cent in the current financial year. Chief Executive Officer Gaurav D Garg, in an interview with Niladri Bhattacharya, says general insurance in India should reach the masses and that there is a need to introduce simple products.

Q&A: Gaurav D Garg, CEO, Tata AIG General Insurance

At six-and-a-half feet and dressed in a royal blue business suit, it isn&rsquo;t difficult to spot Stuart Davis, CEO of HSBC, as he strides down the gleaming marble alley of the Taj Mahal Hotel at the appointed hour for lunch. The Taj is like a second home for him.

Lunch with BS: Stuart Davis

Reserve Bank of India Governor Duvvuri Subbarao says its forward guidance on a pause in policy rate hikes is in tune with best practices. In an interview with Sumit Sharma, he justified action against the real estate sector, saying home prices in most metros have crossed pre-crisis levels.

Q&A: Duvvuri Subbarao, RBI Governor

Public sector lender Oriental Bank of Commerce is expecting credit growth to pick up in the next two quarters. In an interview, Chairman and Managing Director T Y Prabhu tells Vrishti Beniwal one worry, across the sector, is the lag in growth of deposits.

Q&A: T Y Prabhu, CMD, Oriental Bank of Commerce

Over the past week, there have been many questions about the Fed&rsquo;s new large-scale asset purchase programme (LSAP), or QE2. Below, Deutsche Bank Research lists three questions about QE2, and offers two or three perspectives on each. Peter Hooper writes from a US perspective, Thomas Mayer takes a European view and Michael Spencer an Asian (emerging market or sometimes Japanese) perspective.

'QE2 has good prospects of succeeding'

Mergers and amalgamations will grow and deal sizes increase as the Indian economy expands, Venkat Anantharaman, the managing director responsible for mergers and amalgamations, leveraged finance and equity corporate finance at Standard Chartered Bank in Mumbai, tells Sumit Sharma in an interview.

Q&A: Venkat Anantharaman, StanChart

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