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Tuesday, October 28, 2025
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

MCD is rounding up sterilised, friendly dogs just for optics—a moral and scientific failure

Since 1982, the resident dogs of JLN Stadium have peacefully coexisted with athletes, spectators, and staff. There hasn’t been a single recorded bite in over four decades.

Paper in MoSPI journal flags financial inclusion gap—highest among Hindus, lowest for Muslims

Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.

From battle of wits and daring air strikes to artillery fury, new details emerge of Operation Sindoor

Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.

Deepfake on duty: when I asked AI to read Op Sindoor citations

On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.