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Banking Frontiers
More Features, More Automation, More AI
Sandeep Chordia, COO, Kotak Securities is driving a slew of upgrades and new technologies:
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May 2025
Banking Frontiers
4% decline in microfinance portfolio, yet prospects are not bleak
A CRIF High Mark quarterly analysis of the performance of the microfinance portfolio:
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May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Preferred Formats for Acquiring Leadership Skills
Smriti Pandey: Among masterclass, workshops, books, videos, mentors, etc, which is your preferred format for acquiring hard skills? And soft skills?
2 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Balancing Time Between Hard Skills & Soft Skills
Smriti Pandey: What is the ratio of time you spent using your soft skills vs your hard skills? What was the ratio 3 years ago, and what do you think will the ratio be 3 years from now?
2 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Seeking Al with ‘Implementation Assurance’ & ‘Manageable Risk’
Is retail banking the only space for use of AI among banks? What about treasury, corporate banking, trade finance, syndication, etc? Dr Nilay Ranjan Singh, CEO at SBI DIFC, highlights the opportunities and challenge in these lesser prominent use cases of AI:
3 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
STAR LEADERS OF NBFCs
A good leader has multiple skills, and they can broadly be divided into hard skills and soft skills. In these volatile and trying times, what skills are leaders leveraging, what is the outcome, what skills are they planning to develop further, and how? This is what Banking Frontiers is studying from an interaction with 5 leaders from India’s booming NBFC sector: ♦ Kalpanaa Sankar, MD, Belstar Microfinance ♦ Sanjay Agarwal, MD & CEO, Ambit Finvest ♦ Vivek Tiwari, MD, SATYA MicroCapital ♦ Anilkumar SG, CEO, Samunnati ♦ Kamlesh Gandhi, Chairman & MD, MAS Financial Services
6 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
A revenue opportunity for banks & fintechs
As Canada inches closer to implementing Open Banking, industry experts, policymakers, and financial institutions are debating its impact, challenges, and future. Babu Nair, MD & CEO of Financial Technology Frontiers, sat down with Eyal Sivan, better known as Mr. Open Banking, to explore the current landscape, regulatory hurdles, and the road ahead for Open Banking in Canada.
3 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Harnessing Predictive Analytics, Exploring Predictive Modeling
Rachit Gehani, Chief Technology Officer, IIFL Home Finance, sheds light on the technologies, partners and team that is propelling the company into the future:
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May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Streamlining Lending with LOS, Curbing NPA with AI
Capri Global Capital has achieved a healthy growth in SME business. Abhishek Sinha, Chief Business Officer, UR & Micro LAP, Capri Global Capital shares details, and the technologies enabling the growth:
3 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Notable Outcomes of Hard Skills & Soft Skills
Smriti Pandey: Give one example each of a notable outcome achieved through your hard skills and through your soft skills in the last 2-3 years?
3 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Scaling up vertically, Diversifying Horizontally
Banks financing NBFCs had touched a 4-year low of 6.7% in 2024, according to RBI data. This had compelled NBFCs to tweak their funding pattern in the current financial year. And RBI has recently relaxed some lending norms, including existing tighter rules for bank loans to NBFCs, trimming risk weight requirements for banks on consumer microfinance loans and reverting to the earlier risk weight requirements.
2 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Digital banks drive transformation in Malaysia
It’s the 5 digital banks that the regulator gave permission to operate that actually drove the transformation of the banking industry in Malaysia:
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May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Next Generation of Leadership Skills
Smriti Pandey: What one hard skill would you like to improve/acquire and what one soft skill would you like to improve/acquire during 2025? What motivates you to improve/acquire these skills?
3 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Enterprise Al in Corporate Banking: Moving from Experiments to Business Impact
The conversation around AI in banking has largely been dominated by retail use cases - chatbots, credit scoring, and hyper-personalized offers. But corporate banking, often seen as the slower adopter, is poised for a strategic inflection point. This is not just about operational efficiency - it’s about redefining the architecture of intelligence itself.
2 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
SHAPING THE FUTURE OF Insurance
Banking Frontiers organized its annual insurance conclave \"InsureNext Global 2025\" in Mumbai on February 12, 2025. The key attraction at the conference was 4 panel discussions. Here are the highlights of the panel discussions:
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April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Best tools for fraud prevention - AI & Data Analytics
Frauds in the insurance sector has been a major concern but insurers are now looking at latest technology measures:
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April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Being Small, Dreaming Big
Alok Agarwal, MD & CEO, Zurich Kotak General Insurance:
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April 2025
Banking Frontiers
HR: The fuel that drives Compliance
Insights from Anto George T, COO & Head HR, South Indian Bank:
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April 2025
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Expanding Geographies, Diversifying Partnerships
Tanya Chadha, Chief Business Officer Digital Business Alliances, UGRO Capital describes the strategies and technologies driving the growth:
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April 2025
Banking Frontiers
AI Ascend: Scaling AI for Impact
In an era defined by rapid technological evolution, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force, reshaping industries and redefining the contours of our daily lives.
5 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Risk, Resilience, Al: Transforming Financial Management
In today's dynamic financial services landscape, risk management challenges are evolving at an unprecedented pace.
3 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Two progressives join hands
MVS Murthy, Chief Marketing Officer, Federal Bank looks at the partnership with Vidya Balan from multiple lenses:
4 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
L&T Finance appoints cricket icon as brand ambassador
L&T Finance has named Indian Li cricketer icon Jasprit Bumrah as its brand ambassador.
1 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Bank of Japan sets up CBDC API Sandbox
The sandbox is not just about setting up a CBDC platform but would cover all the technicalities of creating a CBDC:
4 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Swiss banks have a dilemma in adopting AI
More and more Swiss banks are adopting Al and other cutting-edge technologies but there are some related concerns too:
3 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Humor-centric story telling
Azmat Habibullah, MD & Head Group Strategic Marketing and Communications, DBS Bank India, explores the creative art that resonates with customers:
7 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Climate Change Risks
Highlights of the keynote address by Sanjay Malhotra, Governor, RBI, at the Policy Seminar on Climate Change Risks and Finance:
2 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Loan defaults spike: Banks, NBFCs enrol more recovery agents
Banks, NBFCs enrol more recovery agents
2 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
RBI launches .bank.in domain to strengthen Digital Banking Security
In a proactive effort to enhance cybersecurity and protect consumers from online fraud, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has introduced a dedicated '.bank.in' domain for all Indian banks.
3 min |
April 2025
Banking Frontiers
Revolutionizing Audit & Compliance with eTHIC by NCS Softsolutions
In an era where governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) are more crucial than ever, NCS Softsolutions stands as a beacon of innovation and trust.
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