India's Largest Private Bank Just Fined Its Own CEO
Category: Financial Institutions
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HDFC Bank spent two decades outrunning India's benchmark index. A deposit deal booked as marketing spend, a bond scandal out of Dubai and a chairman who quit over "values and ethics" have turned the country's model bank into its biggest governance story.
Read the full Icarus Asia research note at https://icarusasia.com/research/hdfc-bank-governance.
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