
Writing there are issues but not spelling them out creates uncertainties, says HDFC Bank CEO Jagdishan
Keki Mistry, for a period of 90 days. So, we have 90 days for the board to undertake the process of examining the regulatory requirements for a part-time chairman. It is possible that if Mr.
Mistry is eligible and I am talking on behalf of the board, there is a fair amount of people rooting for him to be there.When you talk about the fruits of the merger, there are points in time. On the day of the merger, you just take a balance sheet, and you merge. Then, you have to ensure that you raise substantial, sufficient deposits to be able to substitute all the borrowings which are maturing, so that it can fund the balance sheet.
Now, ever since July 2023, the liquidity environment has never been as benign as how it was prior to that. It has been, actually, for a long period of time, very tight and in the negative zone, and as it started to come up to the positive zone from around April 2025, you started to see the issues emanating out of the trade policies and the impact of the dollar-rupee movement. As per our glide path, from FY26, we will be in line with the system, which we are on track to, at least until December, and then in FY27, we believe we should be growing far faster than the system.
We are not a short-term entity.You mentioned organizational restructuring on an investor call last week. What would that entail? Do you see Kaizad Bharucha (deputy managing director) as a successor?For me, Kaizad is an equal. He is one of the strongest persons in the banking industry today.
He handles the entire asset side of the balance sheet and runs it so efficiently. I would like to think about the process of restructuring as I have done in May 2021 and October 2023. We are equals, and he is already one of the most key members of
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