IPO Boom Prompts ICICI to Hire More Investment Bankers

  • New hires to bolster technology, health-care coverage
  • ICICI Securities tops India equity league table year to date
An ICICI Bank in New Delhi, India.Photographer: Prashanth Vishwanathan/Bloomberg
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India’s second largest private lender ICICI Bank Ltd. is making its biggest hiring push in investment banking and institutional equities in four years, as it anticipates a rise in companies going public.

The Mumbai-based firm plans to add five mid-to-senior level hires in each of the two units, which currently have 130 bankers in total, according to Ajay Saraf, head of investment banking and institutional equities at ICICI Securities Ltd. The new roles will be concentrated in sectors such as technology and health care, he said.