It can be noted that over the last few years, discount brokerages which help an investor transact by paying a fraction of commissions and fees have become popular with investors, forcing many of the entrenched players to offer similar offerings.
“I’m happy to say that our own HDFC Securities also has a plan and you will see that countering the threats from discount brokerages with its own neo architecture or discount kind of an architecture as well,” Jagdishan told the bank’s shareholders at its annual general meeting on Saturday.
He added that HDFC Securities will be responsible and exuded confidence that it will gain market share in the next 2-3 years.
The company, which registered a 94.9 per cent growth in its June quarter net profit to Rs 260.6 crore, is doing extremely well, Jagdishan said.
As per filings, HDFC Securities’ total income grew by 67.3 per cent to Rs 457.8 crore in the June quarter as against Rs 273.7 crore in the year-ago period. It had 215 branches across 147 cities / towns in the country.
Meanwhile, speaking at the bank’s AGM, its non-executive chairman Atanu Chakraborty said the largest lender in the private space is on its way to scale technology adoption and transformation agenda through scaling infrastructure, disaster recovery resilience, information security enhancements and having a monitoring mechanism.
He said the bank has taken the regulatory actions arising out of challenges faced on technology in the right spirit and the management has displayed grace and humility.
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