Uday Kotak Quotes
My view is the core engine supporting India's growth aspiration will be the financial sector, which will have to get more efficient.
Kotak, Uday. Interview. The Economic Times, Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd., 2014.
By 1915 America was selling arms to the allies although we were "neutral." However the allies soon ran low on money to pay for more arms, and Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, maintained a policy of no American loans for arms sales. The Treasury Secretary wrote to the President asking for a reversal of policy. The ban on loans was shortly lifted.
After the Great Recession the Mexican bankers, like their American counterparts, tightened their credit standards so much that the only people who could get loans were the ones who didn’t need it. If banks do not make loans, it matters not that they are solid institutions that are well capitalized.
Uday Kotak is an Indian billionaire banker, and the executive vice chairman and managing director of Kotak Mahindra Bank.