India’s Top Banks Face a CEO Talent Crunch as Wall Street Keeps Drawing from the Same Pool
India’s largest private banks are confronting an increasingly visible leadership bottleneck, with recent CEO searches at HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank underscoring how narrow the domestic bench has become. Regulatory constraints, limited succession pipelines and competition from other financial sectors are making it harder to find executives with the scale, judgment and regulatory familiarity required to run complex institutions.
