In this issue

March 2023 Issue Highlights:

Banking Frontiers March 2023 edition cover story, 'Women in Financial Inclusion' covers the financial inclusion approaches in place at BFSI companies for women customers.

Other key features include:

ICICI Bank & Axis Bank surf the digital wave – featuring Sandeep Bakshi and Amitabh Chaudhry
BAGIC collaborations with intechs, insurtechs, EV makers, and others – featuring Alpana Singh
Work-life balance is an oxymoron – featuring A. Manimekhalai
FlexiLoans offers FlexiTimings for femployees – featuring Gitanjali Mayani
Financial literacy will lead to the empowerment of women – featuring Kashmira Kalwachwala, Shaily Gang & Meeta Shetty
CISO is like the pilot of an aeroplane – featuring Babitha B P
IndiaFirst Life Insurance's new approaches to designing insurance products – featuring Bhavna Verma
Mahindra Finance strategies for new to credit customers – featuring Mallika Mittal
Happy employees make happy customers – featuring Shambhavi Solanki

BAGIC boost core CX, builds peripheral services

Alpana Singh, Senior President & Head - Bancassurance - PSUS, RRBs & Co-Banks at Bajaj Allianz General Insurance shares the benefits of collaborations with fintechs, insurtechs, EV makers and others:

5 mins

India Grand Finale - ZSI empower 2022

Held on February 16, 2023 at International Conventional Hall, BSE, Dalal Street, Mumbai:

4 mins

BBK: Ensuring data privacy in metaverse

The Bank of Bahrain and Kuwait is in the thick of a transformation and has been experimenting with the latest tech tools:

3 mins

'Work life' balance is an oxymoron

A. Manimekhalai, MD & CEO, Union Bank of India, expects to see greater demand for investment products for long term savings, personalized products & cards, wealth management services:

4 mins

FlexiLoans offers FlexiTimings for Femployees

For all attrition cases, FlexiLoans ensures exit interview data is collected and analysed:

4 mins

Financial literacy will lead to empowerment of women

Women must take charge of their own investments journey and need to actively participate in their family's financial matters:

8 mins

Next goal is boosting fruitful usage of financial services

The difference in inactive bank accounts between men and women is very telling:

5 mins

Venturing into Embedded Fintech

Amee Parbhoo is a Managing Partner at Accion Venture Lab (AVL), which is a part of Accion International. She has worked with AVL for almost 8 years. Accion International has been working in financial inclusion around the world for over 60 years, and believes that digital financial services are powerful tools to help reduce poverty and create economic opportunity. Edited excerpts from a free-flowing interview:

7 mins

Financial inclusion for 1 mn, financial literacy for 7 mn

Ananya Birla envisions ₹200 billion portfolio with 1500+ branches serving 0.1 million villages pan India and to diversify the business in individual & MSME loan (secured/ unsecured):

3 mins

More women should become social investors

Smita Ram, CEO of Rang De, advises young girl students to use disruptive technology to build a career in banking and financial services affordable and inclusive:

2 mins

The Stepping Stones: Skills & Risks

Poornima Subramanian, CFO at Reliance Nippon Life Insurance, deep dives into the skills and risks that will help women accelerate their careers:

8 mins

Aim is doubling business, but customer convenience is priority

Russia's VTB Bank has deployed high-end technology and its main aim is to achieve truly multi-channel customer access environment:

3 mins

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Banking Frontiers Magazine Description:

Banking Frontiers is a monthly B2B magazine that covers the activities of the finance sector in India. It covers their activities in the areas of Technology, Security, HR, Marketing, Growth, Expansion, Risk Management, Compliance, Tie-ups, etc.The Banking, Financial Services and Insurance, or BFSI, sector is today the most happening sector - be it the excitement of challenging business models, or products and services or mergers and acquisitions or pure organic growth or the response to globalization.