Research

Research articles published by Hemindra Hazari.

It has been 3½ years since the Reserve Bank of India imposed a moratorium on Yes Bank, superseded its board, and organised a financial...
Toxic work culture is rife in the Indian financial sector and it is rare for senior executive management to acknowledge abusive behaviour by managers....
It is Uday Kotak’s swan song year as chief executive officer of Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB), and the theme of the bank’s FY2023 annual...
The overriding theme of Axis Bank’s FY2023 annual report  (released on June 26, 2023) is “Open, to Win Together”. The catch phrase is reiterated...
The gap between Axis Bank’s own portrayal of customer experience and the reality of customer complaints recalls Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of Dr....
In the wake of the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in the United States of America on March 10, 2023, the United States...
Banks are considered special, but Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) and its high profile founder-CEO, Uday Kotak are extraordinarily special (here and here). Ever since...
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY. Why is the capital market deliberately overlooking the serious concerns regarding corporate governance in the Kotak Mahindra group? Presumably because the bank...
Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) sent the following response to this analyst’s article, “KMB Talks of “Highest Standards of Corporate Governance”, But Avoids Telling Shareholders...
On the one hand, Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) is proudly broadcasting to shareholders its thoughts on the virtues of corporate governance, and how the...