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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The phenomenal success of HDFC Bank under the stewardship of Aditya Puri, its first CEO, had some unfortunate consequences. It led to...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Axis Bank’s acquisition of Citibank India’s consumer finance division has been applauded by the stock market, and the bank has outperformed Nifty-50...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Many cases of mis-selling by ICICI Prudential Life (IPru Life) have been highlighted by this analyst since 2018 (also here and here)....
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The argument made at the time of opening up the life insurance sector and allowing the private sector was that doing so...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. In order to protect its customers from mis-selling, ICICI Bank ceased the selling of traditional par and non-par life insurance policies even...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The Mint newspaper broke a news story on February 15, 2022 exposing how, in June 2019, RBL Bank had disbursed a high-risk...
It is difficult to read the SEBI's scathing order and not wonder what on earth the NSE board was doing. In Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Book, Akela,...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. In the ongoing Indusind Bank microfinance saga, we earlier learned of a "technical glitch"  whereby the bank generously disbursed loans to customers...
An account of K.R. Shenoy's life gives us glimpses of a significant phase of Indian banking, one which had far more dynamism than it...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. The toxicity in Axis Bank’s work culture which this analyst has been highlighting (here and here) was recently confirmed by Ravi Narayanan,...