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Sunday, February 22, 2026
TopicIndian bankers

Topic: Indian bankers

India records best-ever mergers & acquisitions quarter, $82.3 billion pending & completed deals

The spike was led by HDFC Bank's $60 billion all-stock acquisition of Housing Development Finance Corp. in April, which combined India's leading bank and largest mortgage lender.

India’s IPO frenzy sees bankers trade work-life balance for huge fees

Bumper pool of fees has become all the more significant for bankers in an especially harrowing year, that saw sickness and death come much closer to home due to Covid pandemic.

The real reason millennials & Gen-Z don’t want to become bankers

Banks should think about the types of candidates they’re trying to recruit. In post-pandemic era, keeping young employees will be about something more existential than money & perks.

Bankers want to be ‘frontline workers’ who get Covid vaccine first, write to Sitharaman

Four bank unions say bankers have provided yeoman service throughout Covid pandemic, and will feel appreciated if they’re moved up in priority list.

Protect bankers, act against miscreants with full force of law: Finance ministry tells states

In a letter to all state chief secretaries, the finance ministry sought proactive and preventive measures amid rising incidents of violence against bankers on bank premises.

Indian bankers more productive working from home due to elimination of lengthy commutes

The average commute time on Mumbai's, India's financial capital, major routes is over an hour, more than twice the averages of Singapore, Hong Kong & New York.

RBI looks to cap banker bonuses that encourage risky behaviour

Dealing with a pile of bad loans & scandals, policy makers hope that tighter rules will help discipline bankers.

Chanda Kochhar’s exit from ICICI ends reign of women at the top of Indian banking

Past few weeks has seen exit of 2 more women bankers — Allahabad Bank's Usha Ananthasubramanian & Axis Bank's Shikha Sharma, who retires in December.

On Camera

Youth Congress, your foolish protest helped the Modi govt climb out of the AI summit hole

In tactical terms, the shirtless protest was worse than a self-goal. Suddenly, the fiascos of the AI Summit were forgotten, and the Youth Congress’s disruption became the issue.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

MoD, IAF agree on some exemptions to HAL for Tejas Mk1A, but no compromise on ‘must-have’ capabilities

IAF is fine with accepting the aircraft with 'must-haves', even if some other steps remain pending, which may take at least another year, it is learnt.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.