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Saturday, March 14, 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

What India can learn from the US-Israel war on Iran

Without any air force or navy worth the name, both Iran and Ukraine have held two superpowers at bay.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.