Telecommunication companies only have payment licenses so they can only take deposits. They can´t lend. What´s happening in banking the world over - and I don´t think India is going to be an exception - is that banking services are being unbundled

IDFC Bank´s Board announced the appointment of Rajan Anandan, Vice-President and Managing Director of Google South East Asia and India, as Independent Director of the Bank.

A slew of measures to infuse the much-needed cash-flow into the infrastructure sector have been introduced to push growth. And Rs 8 lakh crore of equity is likely to find its way soon in the sector enriching the fund pool. However, missing links like deepening the bond market in the country

In an exclusive interview, Rajiv Lall, Chairman, IDFC says that the infrastructure sector is a complex industry and infra funding is an even more complex activity. I agree that that these alternate modes of finance are needed to see some momentum but modes such as infrastructure

Rajiv Lall, Executive Chairman of IDFC informed that the board of the infrastructure finance company decided to go ahead for a banking license. IDFC is an infrastructure financing non-banking financial company (NBFC). According to analysts, NBFCs stand a brighter chance to get a bank license from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)