PV Ananthakrishnan

Ananthakrishnan (Ananth) is Currently the Executive Director and Country Head United Overseas Bank(UOB), India. UOB is Singapore Head quartered bank and is Globally rated as AA-. Bank in India focus on Global financing for Corporates including Corporate Lending, Treasury, Trade products. Globally Bank is very active in Sustainability financing for Corporates and has done various deals across the SE Asian region. Bank focusses on ASEAN Connectivity and has a large presence in ASEAN countries.

At the Group level UOB has a large Retail franchise having recently acquired Citi Bank retail operations in 4 countries. 

Ananth has been instrumental in rolling out the India branch way back in 2012 and it continues to focus on the Wholesale banking business with large Corporates/MNCs  as its targeted customers. Bank also has a Financial Institutions desk which focusses on NBFIs and Banks for lending. 

Ananth is a seasoned banker having worked with various foreign banks Asian and European as well as with large private sector banks. He was a Group Head at HDFC Bank Ltd and was with them for nearly 13 years heading various Business verticals in the Wholesale banking group, having been associated with HDFC Bank in its formative years. During his stint in HDFC bank which he joined in 1996, apart from being associated with Wholesale banking business , he created and headed different business groups like Capital Markets/ Commodity Financing business/Rural Banking and  Business Banking. All of these businesses have done extremely well and in many of them HDFC bank continues to be Market Leaders . 

Ananth also served in various committees in the financial sector during his over 4 decades of experience  and was also represented as a elected member  to the Managing Committee of Indian Bank’s association (IBA) representing foreign banks.