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Banking Frontiers
Bank of Maharashtra launches co-branded credit cards in partnership with SBI Card
Bank of Maharashtra, in a strategic co-branding partnership with SBI Card, has launched co-branded credit cards tailored to enhance its retail product portfolio and deliver greater value to customers.
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
Bahrain to set up sandbox for fintechs
The Central Bank of Bahrain is proposing to create a new regulatory sandbox for fintech startups and firms to test and experiment their banking ideas and solutions, It has come out with new regulations in this regard, which provide for a 'virtual space' and it is open to existing CBB licensees and other local and foreign firms.
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
Managing the Mountains of Data
At the 2025 edition of the Technoviti Conclave & Awards, Banking Frontiers curated a high-stakes panel of thought leaders to address an increasingly critical imperative within the BFSI sector: the shift from data abundance to actionable intelligence. As the digital economy matures and customer interactions proliferate across channels, BFSI institutions are inundated with data, rich in potential but difficult to tame.
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
RBI's Financial Inclusion Index rises to 64.2, but credit gaps persist: Deputy Governor
RBI's financial inclusion index, which captures the extent of financial inclusion across the country, with four iterations published till date, has increased from 60.1 in March 2023 to 64.2 in March 2024, showing a YoY increase of 6.82 per cent.
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
On-Prem 2.0 - Towards Total Trust
In a session that merged philosophical nuance with infrastructure strategy, On-Prem 2.0 - Towards Total Trust at Technoviti Conclave & Awards 2025 set the stage for a fresh conversation on the hybrid evolution of infrastructure in BFSI. The panel tackled the pressing question: How can financial institutions preserve trust while scaling innovation?
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
Bollywood actors campaign for Trust
What campaign ideas, social metrics and partnerships drives IIFL Home Finance? Madhvi Gupta, Head - Marketing, Corporate Communications, ESG and CSR, unwraps the playbook:
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
MSME AUM for NBFCs to cross ¥5.3 lakh crore by FY26: Report
According to a Care Edge report, the MSME Assets Under Management for NBFCs are expected to cross *5.3 lakh crore by FY26. MSME lending has witnessed robust growth in recent years, with NBFCs emerging as the front-runners, outpacing the growth rates of both private and public sector banks.
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
From Preventive Security to Resilience Strategy
In today’s digitized financial ecosystem, trust isn’t just a value; it’s a liability unless secured. With data breaches rising and regulatory scrutiny tightening, the BFSI sector, and particularly the insurance industry, has emerged as a model for cyber preparedness and resilience.In a recent in-depth conversation with Babu Nair, Group Publisher of Banking Frontiers, Joel Machado, Chief Information Security Officer at Ageas Federal Life Insurance, shared his perspective on how the insurance industry is evolving its cyber defense playbook and why the broader financial ecosystem must take note.
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
Closing the Loop: From Lead Generation to Gen Al
In today's financial services industry, growth is no longer linear. Institutions navigating complex consumer behavior, rapid technological shifts, and pressure on return metrics, all while ensuring compliance and trust. Against this backdrop, the session titled “Closing the Loop: From Lead Generation to Gen AI” at Finnoviti Conclave 2025 offered a power-packed perspective on how BFSI leaders are not just adapting but transforming their models through Gen AI.
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July 2025
Banking Frontiers
CorpComm Culture 2.0: From Announcement to Alchemy
Learn how Santanu Chakraborty, Lead - Corporate Communications at Bombay Stock Exchange is driving initiatives that garner millions of views:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
Uno Digital Bank Enhances Lending Capabilities with Pennant Technologies' Loan Management System
Uno Digital Bank has successfully deployed Pennant Technologies' pennApps Lending Factory Loan Management System (LMS) as part of a strategic move to modernize and streamline its lending operations.
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
Women at the Fintech Frontier
Shruti Aggarwal, Co-Founder, Stashfin, and Dilip Modi, Founder & CEO, Spice Money, are championing fintech for all, with a strong focus on uplifting women customers in underserved regions:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
₹214 billion & Counting - Quantum Computing Next Fraud Shield
Banking fraud is evolving rapidly, driven by the increasing complexity of digital transactions and the sophistication of criminal networks using advanced technologies. Traditional fraud detection systems based on rule-based engines and machine learning algorithms are struggling to keep up with the volume, speed, and subtlety of modern financial crime. Quantum computing, with its ability to process vast, high-dimensional data and uncover hidden patterns using principles like superposition and entanglement, offers a promising new frontier in combating fraud.
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
Digital lending gains ground, but MSME credit gap remains a challenge: SIDBI Report
The Small Industries Development Bank of The India (SIDBI) has released a new report titled \"Understanding the Indian MSME Sector: Progress and Challenges.\" The report highlights the evolving financial landscape for Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), with a sharp focus on digital lending and access to credit.
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
PRACTICAL USE CASES OF PERFECTION
The financial sector periodically undergoes some transformation or the other, such as - nationalization, privatization, computerization, digitization and personalization. While all these are well publicized, there is one more transformation that is less visible - and that is perfection.
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
9 Indian banks among 40 Global Digital Champions: Deloitte report
According to the 6th Deloitte Global Digital Banking Maturity (DBM) survey, nine Indian banks have been recognised as 'Digital Champions' among 40 banks that received the title globally. Since 2022, India’s DBM Index has grown from 43% to 59%, witnessing a 16-percentage point (pp) increase. Indian banks have observed the most notable gains in day-to-day banking (+9.8 pp) and expanding relationships (+3.4 pp). This change reflects Indian banks' increasing digital maturity, showcasing their focus on customised advisory, rapid technological advancements, AI integration and beyond-banking offerings.
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
Yes Bank gets a major push
SMBC, the banking arm of Japanese financial services major SMFG is buying a 20% stake in Yes Bank:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
CDAOs are becoming crucial positions in organizations
CDAOs are now holding a strategic position in organizations and their role is becoming more established:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
AI will take away repetition, not employment
Technology is associated with worries like rising costs, rising unemployment and skills shortage. Vivek Tiwari, MD & CEO at SATYA MicroCapital gives his calm perspectives on these issues:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
BBVA wins The Banker Award for tech initiatives
This is for the second time that it has won the 'Best Bank in Spain' Award:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
Digital Fore with Human Core
Indraneel Pandit, Chief Digital Officer at Federal Bank explains the phygital strategy and the initiatives driving customer experience and efficiency:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
IndiaFirst Life: One of the top players for PMJJBY
IndiaFirst Life is moving from a bancassurance dominated to a multichannel distribution organization. Sumeet Sahni, CDO & President - Agency Channel, outlines the transformation:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
Align technology stack with ESG objectives
Check out various IT initiatives that Dr. Puneet Kohli has driven over the years. She is now Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Liberty General Insurance:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
2 Saudi regulators have unique sandboxes
In Saudi Arabia, the Central Bank of Saudi Arabia, or SAMA, and the Capital Market Authority, or CMA, have distinct sandboxes:
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June 2025
Banking Frontiers
Greening of Indian NBFCs
In association with Rabo Foundation, auctus ESG organized a conclave titled 'Greening of Indian NBFCs' in Mumbai on April 10, 2025. Highlights:
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May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Tariff Turmoil: 3 Orders of Impact on Banking
Something unusual played out in the US financial markets when the US President shocked the world by deploying tariffs as a weapon of mass destruction of trade. Equity markets tanked, as expected. Bond prices went down and so did the USD, which defied all logic. A risk aversion towards equities signifies a flight to the perceived safety of US bonds. Bonds and USD should have strengthened. Even the Treasury Secretary of the US anticipated the same. The market, however, had other plans. Welcome to the world of chaos.
3 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
People who Helped Build Leadership Skills
Smriti Pandey: Name one or more persons who have made a big contribution in your life to boost your soft skills? Your hard skills?
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May 2025
Banking Frontiers
RPA: Raised Efficiency, Now Boosting Resilience
Martin P S, Chief Operating Officer at Ujjivan Small Finance Bank, reveals how the bank is leveraging RPA in multiple areas and deriving substantial benefits:
3 min |
May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Compliance related workforce leaps 143%
George Thomas, Executive Vice President (HR) at ESAF Bank
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May 2025
Banking Frontiers
Credit Unions: A roadmap for being future-ready
The digital visionary Marry Gunaratnam, CIO & Head of Information Security, Northern Credit Union, suggests how credit unions can balance budgets and boost efficiency:
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