Banking Frontiers Magazine - January 2023

In this issue

The cover story on Leadership Spectrum is a guide to the road ahead for leaders. Other stories showcase the innovation and progress at Commercial Bank of Qatar, Union Bank of India, South Indian Bank, NESL, NERL, and others.

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:

3 mins

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:

5 mins

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.

6 mins

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:

8 mins

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.

1 min

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.

1 min

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:

3 mins

₹30 bn loans disbursed on NERL platform

LOAN AGAINST KCC/ENWR AT PAR

3 mins

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:

4 mins

Experiential Digital Done Right

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

2 mins

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:

3 mins

Data Lake empowers key steps in Customer Journey

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

4 mins

Influencers drive brand building

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

6 mins

NeSL records ₹184 tn worth of debt

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

6 mins

Itau Unibanco where customers prefer the digital

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

3 mins

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:

3 mins

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:

4 mins

From productivity teamwork to ESG DEI

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

6 mins

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).

2 mins

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.

4 mins

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.

7 mins

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.

2 mins

Why reviewing success generates even more success

Steven Paul is an executive leader and board director. He brings a fresh perspective to creating high-impact boards, building businesses, leadership and strategic alignment, transformation. His passion is to help companies achieve growth and develop authentic leaders.

2 mins

Installing Values creates Culture

Harish Mehta is a leadership and executive coach. He is Past President at Professional Speakers Association India, Mumbai, and a former banker.

2 mins

India Inc records all-time high wealth creation

Reliance Group is the largest and top wealth creator in the country:

2 mins

2gthr & Xlr8 platforms drive partnerships

Sandeep Sonpatki, Chief Business Officer at Lendingkart, reveals the company's strategies and technology approaches for deepening partnerships:

4 mins

American Bankers Mutual Insurance announces $3mn distribution to banks

\"This program provides the banking industry with a longterm, stable source of insurance and risk services, as well as meaningful distributions for eligible ABA member banks,\" said Gary Hemmer, chairman, ABMI and chairman of the board of First National Bank of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ill.

1 min

North-East: Low on banking, Average on microfinance

An article recently released by RBI, titled 'Financial Inclusion through Microfinance - An Assessment of the North-Eastern Region of India', authored by S. Chinngaihlian and Pallavi Chavan, documents the spread of microfinance in the NorthEast. Despite a smaller share in the total microfinance portfolio, the North-East scores reasonably well on most indicators of access and usage of microfinance.

2 mins

PayU: Travel spend up 165%; OTT spend up 80%

Paulami Das sees that behaviors formed during the pandemic continue to persist

3 mins

Asia leads in fintech evolution, finds new survey

Asia is a leader in the adoption of digital payments and the strongest interest in emerging payment experiences, says the survey:

4 mins

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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.