Unlike any other business, banking is a turf where the captain s role is the most critical.
Often a bank is defined by the personality of the CEO who runs it.
Both HDFC Bank and Kotak Mahindra Bank are the creation of their CEOs, notes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Chicago's status as a banking center has been badly eroded by CEOs selling their homegrown commercial banks to out-of-town buyers. Ed Wehmer means it when he calls Wintrust "Chicago's bank."