Business Today Summit & Awards Celebrate Indian Banking's Growth

The prestigious annual Business Today Banking & 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 an impressive line-up of influential figures, thought leaders, and experts from the financial industry who will deliberate on pressing 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 & 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 & CEO of HDFC Bank, will also attend. The line-up for the summit includes names such as Dr Arvind Panagariya, Chairman, 16th Finance Commission of India; Ashishkumar Chauhan, MD & CEO, NSE; Kaustubh Kulkarni, Senior Country Officer-India and Vice Chairman-Asia Pacific, J P Morgan; Ittira Davis, MD & CEO, Ujjivan Small Finance Bank; B. Ramesh Babu, MD & CEO, The Karur Vysya Bank; and Shallu Kaushik, Digital Head, Tata Capital. Also attending will be Harshvardhan Lunia, Co-Founder & 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 highly anticipated 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 high-profile 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 & CEO, NSE; Ranu Vohra, Co-founder & Executive Vice Chairman, Avendus; Pallav Mohapatra, MD & CEO, Arcil; N.S. Kannan, former ED, ICICI Bank; and Rajiv Kaul, Executive Vice Chairman & CEO, CMS Info Systems.

Amidst global economic challenges marked by high volatility in the financial markets, disruptions in supply chains, and inflationary pressures, the Indian economy stands resilient, albeit not immune. The Business Today Banking & Economy Summit aims to address the key trends and issues shaping the banking and financial sector, providing a platform for policymakers, regulators, industry executives, and innovators to exchange ideas and chart the course forward.