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IPO boom prompts ICICI Bank to make hiring push in investment banking

  ICICI plans to add five mid-to-senior level hires in each of the two units, which currently have 130 bankers in total. 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. “We have not hired these kinds of numbers since 2017,” Saraf said in a phone interview last week. “We see investor interest disproportionately higher for these sectors in the next 12 months.” India is joining the global share sale frenzy thanks to ample liquidity in the  market  with foreign investors and even retail buyers looki...