Finance Interviews

Want to build best housing finance firm of the future: Bajaj Finserv execs

Bajaj Housing Finance is looking to raise Rs 6,560 cr, of which fresh issues are for Rs 3,560 cr and offer for sale is for Rs 3,000 cr. Bidding for the IPO opens on Sept 9 and closes on Sept 11

Plan to diversify in India, abroad: GIC Re CMD Ramaswamy Narayanan

We plan to finish at around Rs 42,000-43,000 crore for FY25, up 15-16 per cent from last year at Rs 37,000 crore, driven by the health segment to a great extent, said GIC CMD Narayanan

Likely to lose 1% of GDP growth in FY25, FY26 due to rate-cut delay: Varma

The only available yardstick for evaluating the tightness of monetary policy is the real interest rate. The nominal repo rate is useless for this purpose

MSME cash flows can be erratic; lenders must know: Flexiloans.com's Jain

We don't set up physical branches, and this allows us to reach more locations compared to the larger banks and NBFCs, he says

Well-regulated, mkt-based mechanism necessary for UPI MDR: Sharath Bulusu

"In the long run, the payments ecosystem has to be viable in a country of our scale," said Bulusu

Worked a lot on AI... By '30, biz will be 3x current size: Shriram Life CEO

He talks about its growth roadmap, industry outlook, and the need to remove GST on life insurance in achieving insurance for all by 2047

Idea behind SROs is not to make them more regulatory: Anish Mashruwala

The idea of SRO is not to make it more regulatory but it's more decentralisation from the regulator to allow a larger sense of how a particular product in the industry should develop, he says

Don't want to play the price game: Aditya Birla Health Insurance CEO

Bathwal discussed the premium growth and product launches that will support the growth along with the impact of regulatory developments

'Too high real repo rate could have adverse effects on demand, supply'

Repo rate cannot affect food prices. So, keeping it above equilibrium will not lead to faster disinflation. A positive real repo rate is adequate to anchor inflation expectations, says Ashima Goyal

A higher interchange is critical for ATM biz: India1 MD & CEO K Srinivas

The country's largest WLAO, India1, with a tad over 13,000 units, feels it can double deployments by FY28

Govt unlikely to privatise GIC Re at this stage: CMD Ramaswamy Narayanan

Narayanan says the company's business from Gift City will substantially increase in the coming days

Have achieved full compliance with RBI requirements: IIFL Fin's A K Purwar

All concerns raised by the RBI pertain to operational and process-related matters, AK Purwar said

Aim to double AUM to Rs 20,000 crore by FY27, says HomeFirst MD & CEO

Viswanathan discusses the demand in the housing segment and expansion plans

Our sound-based payment tech helps those not digitally savvy: ToneTag CEO

'We are already doing 10 billion UPI transactions a month which is way more than the digital transactions in the US and Europe combined (for a month),' said Abhishek

Canara Bank has increased lending rates for NBFCs by 15-50 bps: CEO

The state-owned lender will raise funds when market conditions are favourable, says K Satyanarayana Raju

Auditors must do basic groundwork, not rely too much on AI: NFRA Chairman

If one reads the Companies Act, Code of Ethics, and Standards of Audit and Quality Control in a harmonious manner, then one would not have any confusion about definition of non-audit services, he said

MFIs' worries overstated, but it pays to be cautious: Manoj Nambiar

Manoj Nambiar spoke about how the industry is changing and why credit rating is customers' responsibility

Over-tightening not an imminent change in our approach: RBI governor Das

Inflation remains a top priority, and a few months of good data should not lead to complacency: Das

Will do corporate biz only to grow on retail front: PNB Housing Finance CEO

Girish Kousgi, MD & CEO of PNB Housing Finance says the plan is to grow the loan book by 17% and disbursement by 22-23% in the current financial year

We see signs of buoyancy in the economy, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman

Inflation a permanent challenge; won't sit back, says FM Nirmala Sitharaman