India is a major part of our emerging market story: Vikram Pandit
People say India is already an emerged market. In many sense, that picks up the benchmarks for India in many ways. Do you think that from a banking standpoint, Citi is recognising that and is taking it to the next level? 

Yes, we have been here since 1902 and we have been, therefore, here for more than 100 years. All through these decades, we have been supporting India. We now have thousands of people on the ground, we have millions of retail clients, we have over 45000 corporate institutional customers and we have been growing with them. We have been helping our clients grow and we recognised the potential that India has. 

More importantly, we have been proud to be part of its growth over these many years and we were now completely focussed on saying how can we help our clients get to the next level. Indian companies have a critical role to play in globalisation and we can help them harness that. When they grow, we grow and I am looking forward to that. 


DEEPAK KUMAR
PGDM 2ND SEM