Vaidyanathan V.

This channel is a collection of interactions & speeches of V Vaidyanathan. 

Vaidyanathan is the MD & CEO of IDFC FIRST Bank, one of India’s leading consumer-focused, tech-enabled banks. He has the unique distinction of leaving a bank as an ED, creating a NBFC, merging it with a commercial bank & returning as the MD & CEO. His vision is to build a world class Indian bank, guided by ethics, powered by technology & to be a force for social good. Starting out with Citibank in 1990, he joined ICICI Bank in 2000. Under his leadership the bank expanded to 1,411 branches, reaching 28M consumers. In 2010, he acquired a stake in an existing NBFC, attempting to convert it to a commercial Bank: Capital First was created in 2012. The share price rallied 7X in 2018, at which point he merged Capital First with IDFC Bank to secure a banking licence. He has received many awards: Most Inspiring CEO 2022 - ET, Most Harmonious Bank Merger - The European 2021, CNBC Awaaz Entrepreneur of the Year 2020.