Reddy, Puri & SBI win top FE Best Banks awards

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fe Bureau: Mumbai, Feb 19 2013, 00:36 IST

The FE Best Banks Awards have always feted the best in the world of finance. This time around, former central bank governor and current chairman of the Fourteenth Finance Commission, Yaga Venugopal Reddy has been conferred with the Lifetime Achievement Award for his achievements as a central banker. Aditya Puri, CEO and managing director, HDFC Bank, takes home the award for Banker of the Year for the tremendous track record in profitability that the bank has and enormous shareholder value it has created. State Bank of India has walked away with the award for Initiative in Financial Inclusion having taken banking to the farthest corners of this country.

If there was one central banker who was not afraid to speak his mind and take tough decisions, it was Reddy whose immense contribution to central banking raised the bar in policy making; Reddy ring-fenced the Indian banking system and the economy from the spillover effects of the global financial crisis, earning recognition for his prudential approach. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz commended Reddy for having had the insight and intuition to foresee the fallout of the 2008 global asset bubble meltdown. As chairman of the Fourteenth Finance Commission, Reddy will take a fresh look at the finances of the Centre and the states against the backdrop of the radical restructuring of India’s indirect tax system.

Under Aditya Puri’s leadership, HDFC Bank has become the country’s most valued bank having earned a reputation for being efficient, profitable and reliable; the bank has grown its profits

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