Salil Panchal

Journalist with Forbes India, wildlife enthusiast and a reluctant maverick. Views are personal.

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Some of India's finest regulators and legal brains discuss at the recently held Fortune India's Banking summit, what banks -- which risk losing their governance premium -- need to do.

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🚨 Speaking at a panel titled 'Are banks losing their governance premium?' Shailesh Haribhakti, Chairman, Shailesh Haribhakti & Associates; Satish Marathe, Director, Central Board, Reserve Bank of India (RBI); and Prashant Kumar, former MD & CEO of YES Bank, talked about the challenges facing lenders amid economic uncertainty, technological disruption, and heightened regulatory scrutiny.

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#FortuneIndiaMagazine | Following MD & CEO Sashidhar Jagdishan’s exit, the country’s largest private sector lender by market cap will have to look at bringing the sheen back in its numbers under a new leadership.

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Kotak Mahindra Bank faces another leadership transition as CEO Ashok Vaswani announces his exit, with the lender also navigating challenges in deposits, lending and core banking growth.

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Former HDFC Bank chairman Atanu Chakraborty questioned the need for an independent legal review, saying the law firms did not explain its scope or legal basis.

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Trump’s tariff blow is real, but not final—India Inc stays optimistic, and economists signal no rate cuts from RBI till December, @Salspl reports. https://t.co/OEoZLnZq78

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At a time when the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is pushing for growth through several interest rates cuts, FY26’s June-ended quarter has been weak for several of India’s lenders.
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Opportunities and challenges await IndusInd Bank's newly appointed CEO Rajiv Anand, as it faces s trust deficit and struggles with poor earnings growth. The coming quarters will be fascinating to watch.

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Veteran banker Rajiv Anand will take charge as CEO of IndusInd Bank, the bank’s board of directors said late on Monday, after RBI approved his appointment. Anand will need to gear up for his most challenging assignment
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#WPower2025: For Sonia Dasgupta, MD and CEO of investment banking at JM Financial, the Queen's Gambit is an approach to business. She has consistently demonstrated her ability to make bold moves and drive growth.
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.@vivekgambhir served as a jury member at the prestigious 14th @ForbesIndia Leadership Awards, which honor business leaders driving innovation, creating meaningful impact, and showcasing entrepreneurial excellence. Congratulations to all the winners! #fila2025

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The new Income Tax Bill assists tax advisors, CAs and individuals too. The simplifications will, finally, help boost tax compliance and reduce the scope for future litigations. Read more here:

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#IncomeTaxBill The new bill allays concerns from tax payers: It does not introduce any additional burden in the form of taxes on individuals from what Sitharaman had announced in her budget speech on February 1 this year, @Salspl writes
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Uncertain global economic activity, weak corporate earnings and a skittish stock market has made investing in equities a challenge in 2025. Other asset classes are unlikely to generate returns as seen in previous years. Expert suggest staying nimble and practical in investing.

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Too many moving pieces make it difficult for decision-making and conviction to succeed. Investors need to face this challenge in 2025. They should be nimble enough to quit and get onto other asset classes with better opportunities: https://t.co/ER3sZyP79n

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No intentions to reduce dependency on Taiwan's TSMC: Nvidia's Jensen Huang

On the sidelines of the Nvidia AI Summit in Mumbai, Jensen Huang, co-founder and CEO of Nvidia, told Forbes India during a press conference that the company has no immediate plans to reduce its dependency on Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). As the world's largest foundry, TSMC has been Nvidia's manufacturing partner for over two decades, producing high-performance GPUs using its cutting-edge 5nm and 4nm process nodes.

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In the competitive landscape of 'finfluencers' -- where the regulator Sebi is monitoring their activities -- Sharan Hegde is finding his niche as an finfluencer-turned-entrepreneur with his members-only The 1% Club. Read about his journey in @ForbesIndia

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#DigitalStars2024 | I want to change the way India looks at money. And people might say money doesn’t bring happiness, but I think the lack of money definitely gives unhappiness: Sharan Hegde (@financewsharan)

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Kotak Mahindra Bank acquires Standard Chartered India's personal loan book. The acquisition will help Kotak Mahindra Bank expand its unsecured loan book. But it will need to scout for larger acquisitions in the future to push ahead of its nearest rival Axis Bank: https://t.co/lDIsQDxdXO

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Navya Nanda, Anushka Rathod, Seethalakshmy Narayanan and Parul Chaudhary discuss the nuances of building careers, dealing with self doubt, creating content and working with founders, in their respective journeys #Under30Classof2024 @ForbesIndia

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The debt fund raising is the single most influential variable for #VodafoneIdea at this moment. If Vi can pull it off as planned, it would be better placed to arrest the subscriber loss | @Salspl reports

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India’s ecommerce giant Flipkart’s credit-first UPI app @supermoney has plans to move aggressively into becoming a secured lender in coming months, rather than just a UPI-first payments gateway app. Here are the details: https://t.co/vsZdHEpsoh

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The window for banks to continue to hike deposit rates—to attract customers when returns from other asset classes is higher—is starting to shut, with easing of interest rates looming. New age small financial banks appear to have taken the lead: @Salspl✍️

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In a discussion with @Salspl and Samar Srivastava of @ForbesIndia, Venkat Ramaswamy, Co-founder and Vice Chairman, @EdelweissFin, [Contd]

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Watch our expert panel decode the Finance Minister's proposals for FY25, as stock markets fall. Joining Forbes India deputy editor @Salspl are Rajiv Anand, deputy MD, @AxisBank, and Mousami Nagarsenkar, partner, @DeloitteIndia ⤵️

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