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Foreign banks cut India count

Foreign and private banks have been cutting down on their workforce in India, according to the profile of banks that Reserve Bank of India released on Wednesday.

The report on the key financial indicators of the bank shows how banks those were on a hiring spree until 2007-08, sacked people to contain costs and improve profitability.

In the case of foreign banks, some such as Standard Chartered, HSBC and ABN Amro have cut their workforce by a few hundred numbers, while private banks, such as ICICI Bank, reduced its workforce by almost 5,500 from 40,686 employees in 2007-08 to 34,597 in 2008-09.

The economic downturn that hit major financial institutions in the country in the past year also affected banks. With the rise in non-performing assets and reducing loan growth, banks were forced to implement a series of cost cutting measures, including trimming of workforce.

According to the report, banks like HDFC and Axis have, however, been recruiting people as their total number of employees has gone up year-on-year. The report that highlights business figures of all the scheduled commercial banks showed a rise in the employee force of all the nationalised banks. Reduced workforce reflected in higher number of business and profit per employee for all the major scheduled commercial banks.

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