Wholesale Banking
Wholesale Banking
HDFC Bank is one of India’s leading private banks and was among the first to receive
approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a private sector bank in 1994.
Today, HDFC Bank has a banking network of 5,608 branches and 16,087 ATM's in 2,902
cities/towns.
CEO: Sashidhar Jagdishan
Core Business
HDFC Bank caters to a wide range of banking services covering commercial and investment banking on
the wholesale side and transactional / branch banking on the retail side. The bank has three key business
segments:
Wholesale Banking
Retail Banking
Treasury
Wholesale Banking
Government bodies
Emerging corporates
Business banking/SMEs
Infrastructure finance group
Treasury
Within this business, the bank has three main product areas
Foreign Exchange and Derivatives, Local Currency Money
Market & Debt Securities, and Equities. With the
liberalisation of the financial markets in India, corporates
need more sophisticated risk management information,
advice and product structures.
These and fine pricing on various treasury products are
provided through the bank's Treasury team.
To comply with statutory reserve requirements, the bank is
required to hold 25% of its deposits in government
securities. The Treasury business is responsible for
managing the returns and market risk on this investment
portfolio.
Retail Banking
Individual borrowers
Salaried & professional borrowers
Micro & medium sized businesses
Extremely small businesses like kirana stores
Self-help groups (SHGs)
Non-resident Indians (NRIs)
The bank is committed to maintaining the highest level of ethical standards, professional
integrity, corporate governance and regulatory compliance.
1. Operational Excellence
2. Customer Focus
3. Product Leadership
4. People
5. Sustainability
Awards
Corporate Governance Rating
The bank was among the first four companies, which subjected itself to a Corporate Governance and
Value Creation (GVC) rating by the rating agency, The Credit Rating Information Services of India
Limited (CRISIL). The rating provides an independent assessment of an entity's current performance
and an expectation on its "balanced value creation and corporate governance practices" in future.
The bank has been assigned a 'CRISIL GVC Level 1' rating, which indicates that the bank's capability
with respect to wealth creation for all its stakeholders while adopting sound corporate governance
practices is the highest. We are aware that all these awards are mere milestones in the continuing,
never-ending journey of providing excellent service to our customers. We are confident, however,
that with your feedback and support, we will be able to maintain and improve our services.
Credit Rating
HDFC Bank has its deposit programmes rated by two rating agencies - Credit Analysis & Research
Limited. (CARE) and Fitch Ratings India Private Limited. The bank's Fixed Deposit programme has
been rated 'CARE AAA (FD)' [Triple A] by CARE, which represents instruments considered to be "of
the best quality, carrying negligible investment risk". CARE has also rated the bank's Certificate of
Deposit (CD) programme "PR 1+" which represents "superior capacity for repayment of short term
promissory obligations". Fitch Ratings India Pvt. Ltd. (100% subsidiary of Fitch Inc.) has assigned the
"tAAA ( ind )" rating to the bank's deposit programme, with the outlook on the rating as "stable".
This rating indicates "highest credit quality" where "protection factors are very high". HDFC Bank
also has its long term unsecured, subordinated (Tier II) Bonds of Rs.4 billion rated by CARE and Fitch
Ratings India Private Limited. CARE has assigned the rating of "CARE AAA" for the Tier II Bonds while
Fitch Ratings India Pvt. Ltd. has assigned the rating "AAA( ind )" with the outlook on the rating as
"stable". In each of the cases referred to above, the ratings awarded were the highest assigned by
the rating agency for those instruments.