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  ICICI Bank Ltd. chief executive K.V. Kamath speaks at the 4th Annual India Unlimited Investor Conference in Singapore Monday, March 7, 2005. Photographer: Munshi Ahmed/Bloomberg News
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Special Report Stars of Asia: Financiers

K. Vaman Kamath

Chief Executive, ICICI Bank Ltd., India

Chief Executive K. Vaman Kamath of ICICI Bank Ltd., India's largest private lender, likes to tell the story about how his automated teller machines spur change in a hierarchical society. Recently, N. R. Narayana Murthy, the chairman of Infosys Technologies Ltd., India's premier high-tech company, was in line at an ICICI ATM on the campus of his company's headquarters. In front of him stood the company's janitor, who loved the machine. Why? He got to keep his place in line in front of the big boss.

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