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HDFC Bank Unveils Three-Pronged Strategy Under New MD & CEO Anup Bagchi
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CNBC TV18•05-10-2026, 07:36
HDFC Bank Unveils Three-Pronged Strategy Under New MD & CEO Anup Bagchi
- •HDFC Bank, under new MD & CEO Anup Bagchi, will implement a three-pronged strategy focusing on rebuilding brand trust, optimizing its balance sheet, and ensuring future readiness.
- •The bank plans to enhance its focus on technology, digitization, and improving customer service, while also grooming future leaders from its deep bench strength.
- •Anup Bagchi's appointment, a non-HDFC Group executive, was described as swift and decisive, ensuring continuity despite potential exits.
- •Board Chairman Rajiv Kumar is credited with the speedy decision on Bagchi's succession, preventing drift after Sashidhar Jagdishan's decision not to seek re-appointment.
- •HDFC Bank aims for
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Under newly appointed MD and CEO Anup Bagchi, HDFC Bank's three-pronged strategy focuses on rebuilding brand and trust, optimizing its balance sheet, and ensuring future readiness. The lender also intends to emphasize technology and digitization, enhance customer service, and groom future leaders.
Anup Bagchi succeeded Sashidhar Jagdishan, whose term was ending after he decided not to seek reappointment.
Shares of HDFC Bank have declined 27% so far this year, marking the worst calendar year performance for the lender since 2008. This drop has been driven by slowing growth, record low margins, succession uncertainty, and persistent selling by foreign institutional investors.
