KOLKATA | MUMBAI: IDFC Bank, which plans to begin business on October 1, has hired senior HDFC Bank executives to hammer out its retail strategy. Biju Pillai, Amit Kumar and Birendra Sahu — heads of HDFC Bank's different business verticals at the time of leaving the bank — will now spearhead IDFC's retail assets and card business, branch banking and overall retail operations, respectively, three people familiar with the development said.
IDFC did not have any retail footprint in its pre-banking avatar as it was engaged only in corporate lending. The infrastructure lending institution, where Housing Development Finance Corporation's chairman Deepak Parekh was a founder chairman, will soon compete with HDFC Bank and ICICI for the retail business pie.