Offer Financial Services Proactively

Michael Schlein is President & CEO of Accion, a global non-profit that helps provide financial services for those living in poverty. He has been pushing for building economic opportunity through microfinance, impact investing and social entrepreneurship.

When there is data, fikar not

Rishi Gupta is MD CEO of Fino Payments Bank. He has earlier worked at International Finance Corporation, ICICI Bank and Maruti Udyog. He was awarded CFO 100 Roll of Honor’ in 2011, 2012 and 2013.

A happy workplace A productive workplace

Asit Rath is CEO & MD of Aviva India. He has earlier worked at ICICI Bank and ICICI Prudential Life.

Six traits of inclusive leadership

Dr. Bijna Kotak Dasani is CEO at www.bijna.com. She is a board member with various firms across the globe and works passionately to drive Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).

From productivity teamwork to ESG DEI

Howden Insurance Brokers is placing abundant emphasis on technology, learning and emotional skills as it marches ahead:

Gujarat, Telangana TN lead CV finance at IKF

K. Vasumathi Devi, Managing Director at IKF Finance reveals the details about the commercial finance business in India, technology partners innovations:

BDO Unibank has CORE as its value proposition

The Philippine universal bank has an onerous task on hand as it prepares to make banking available to maximum number of citizens in the country:

Itau Unibanco where customers prefer the digital

The bank endeavours to become an ideal destination for customers to do banking totally digitally:

NeSL records ₹184 tn worth of debt

NeSL's application and data are hosted in a dedicated infrastructure with tier 4 data centre provider:

Influencers drive brand building

Kiran James, Head Marketing Products, explains how Muthoottu Mini Financiers is strategizing and gaining from influencer marketing.

Data Lake empowers key steps in Customer Journey

Bragadeesh Sundararajan, Chief Data Science Officer, Dvara KGFS shares the data lake journey of his organization:

The challenge of digitizing an Islamic bank

Al Rajhi Bank of Saudi Arabia to use digitization to bridge the gap between a traditional Islamic bank and a highly tech-enabled banking institution:

Experiential Digital Done Right

Banking Frontiers organized a panel discussion in Kochi, Kerala with senior executives from banks and NBFCs. Edited excerpts:

ML, Al & data analytics drive Capri’s growth

The NBFC aims to open 1500 exclusive gold loan branches and is targeting a gold loan AUM of 80bn over the next 5 years:

₹30 bn loans disbursed on NERL platform

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Vivid Money is becoming the neobank of Europe

The neobank claims it is not reinventing the wheel. Rather it adds uniqueness to existing bank offerings:

SVC Bank ties up with SBI General Insurance

SVC Co-operative BankSVC Bank ties up with SBI General Insurance has formed a bancassurance partnership with SBI General Insurance.

Paytm Payments Bank enables digital parking at mall with FASTag

Paytm Payments Bank (PPBL) has partnered with Nexus Malls to enable easy payment for car parking at their malls via FASTag.

Human Assets - Emphasizing Intangibles

5 HR heads share the details of the variety of activities introduced by their respective companies to focus on intangibles like motivation, mental health, recognition, transparency and more:

The INPF Way

Sony A, General Manager & CIO, South Indian Bank, explains the 4 pillars of the bank's digital strategy, describes several recent digital initiatives and reveals future digital plans for overall growth of the bank.

50 STPs to boost CX at UBI

Analytics wing of Union Bank of India enhances bank's functioning from credit underwriting, HR practices to marketing of products, redefining customer experience:

S&P Upgrades CBQ Rating to A-

Joseph Abraham, Group CEO at Commercial Bank of Qatar delves into the current developments at CBQ and the banking industry. Abraham talks about the rising volatility in international business, the bank’s move towards diversification, consolidation and innovation:

Recasting Skills For The New Era

Advances in the digital arena have unleashed a massive transformation in the skills that an organization needs to flourish. CHROs have taken up the challenge and ushered in a wide variety of training and learning programs with an expanding range of objectives. Banking Frontiers spoke with 9 BFSI organizations to understand the transformation that they are ushering in.

Convenience is what customers seek while doing banking

Bank customers are concerned about security, issues relating to trust and inefficient card services, according to a study done on the basis of customer conversations on social media:

KreditBee offers online checkout finance

Kredit Bee has announced that it will offer non-credit card holders the option to convert their online purchases into EMIs during the checkout process.

Revamping platform UI/UX for seamless trading

Ajay Menon reveals that MOFS is working on shifting the mindset of its employees from physical to digital first | Motilal Oswal Financial Services is adapting new-age technologies for building its tech tools and platforms like 'no code low code' and Flutter:

Bank of Montreal gives thrust to AI-based banking

Bank of Montreal endeavours to facilitate customers to bank where and how they want to:

Investec believes digital transformation is not about technology alone

The speciality financial services institution insists that digital transformation in real sense means requires a clear understanding of a product's value proposition:

Spain’s Bnext is not just a neobank, but a financial marketplace

Bnext does so many things, and also banking for its customers:

Ambit Finvest: Navigating Growth with Transformation

Vikrant Narang emphasizes that Ambit Finvest is an omnichannel NBFC that wants to develop multiple origin points to be able to choose the best proposals to underwrite | Ambit Finvest Pvt. Ltd, one of the fastest growing non-banking financial companies (NBFC) in India, has charted an aggressive growth story: