Business Today Banking, Economy Summit and BT Best Banks Awards to be held on March 22

Delhi: Business Today Banking and Economy Summit and BT Best Banks Awards will be held in Gandhinagar’s Gift City on Friday, March 22, 2024. 

The theme for the event this year is ‘Indian Banking: Bigger. Bolder. Boundless,’ and it will feature a line-up of thought leaders, and experts from the financial industry who will deliberate on issues such as the state of the Indian economy, the modern financial lending landscape, and a blueprint for a global financial hotspot, among others.

Nitin Gadkari, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways, is the Chief Guest at the event, while Bhupendra Patel, Chief Minister of Gujarat, is the Guest of Honour. 

Industry stalwarts such as Sashidhar Jagdishan, MD and CEO of HDFC Bank, will also attend. The line-up for the summit includes Arvind Panagariya, Chairman, 16th Finance Commission of India; Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD and CEO, NSE; Kaustubh Kulkarni, Senior Country Officer-India and Vice Chairman-Asia Pacific, J P Morgan; Ittira Davis, MD and CEO, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank; B. Ramesh Babu, MD and CEO, The Karur Vysya Bank; and Shallu Kaushik, Digital Head, Tata Capital. Also attending will be Harshvardhan Lunia, Co-Founder and CEO, Lendingkart; Sabyasachi Goswami, CEO, Perfios Software Solutions; Asheesh Pandey, ED, Bank of Maharashtra; Sanjay Doshi, Partner and Head-Financial Services Advisory, KPMG in India; Kalyanaraman Rajaraman, Chairperson, International Financial Services Centres Authority; Roopwant Singh, MD, GMDC; and Chetan Bhagat, Author, Speaker and Influencer. 

A special issue of Business Today on India’s Best Banks will be released at the event, followed by the presentation ceremony of the BT Best Banks Awards. The 28th edition of the BT-KPMG Best Banks and NBFCs Survey identified those institutions that weathered all storms in 2022-23, innovated both in products and services, nurtured talent, and leveraged the strengths of fintech or technology partners to prepare for the future. There are 16 award categories across banking, NBFCs, and the fintech space. 

While six of them are quantitative awards based on a rigorous evaluation of the financial performance of banks and NBFCs for FY23, the other 10 categories were decided by a jury headed by Anand Kumar Sinha, former deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of India. The other members of the jury were Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD and CEO, NSE; Ranu Vohra, Co-founder and Executive Vice Chairman, Avendus; Pallav Mohapatra, MD and CEO, Arcil; N.S. Kannan, former ED, ICICI Bank; and Rajiv Kaul, Executive Vice Chairman and CEO, CMS Info Systems.