Betting on Value Banking: Vaidyanathan looks to start new entity by January

Vaidyanathan shares strategy for IDFC First and the takeaways from his career that he's implementing now

V Vaidyanathan, former executive director at ICICI Bank who turned entrepreneur to run Capital First, an NBFC that caters to smaller businesses, tells Business Standard in an exclusive interview that his new entity post the merger of Capital First and IDFC Bank which will be called IDFC First will launch by January and cater to a new India with value services. Vaidyanathan shares strategy and the takeaways from his career that he's implementing now. Edited Excerpts: 

Capital First and IDFC are very different institutions. How will the two mesh together?
 

 I think the finest properties that IDFC Bank has are