Why did RBI shoot down Uday Kotak’s top picks for a successor?

By picking an outsider like Ashok Vaswani, the central bank wants Kotak Mahindra Bank to usher in a larger leadership change and emerge from its founder’s shadow.

26 October, 202310 min
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