TAFE – Tractors and Farm Equipment Limited, part of The Amalgamation Group, has appointed Saikat Sarkar as Group Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel, strengthening its leadership bench at a time when governance, regulatory foresight, and global risk management are becoming central to corporate strategy. Sarkar is widely regarded as one of India’s most accomplished…
Exide Industries Limited has announced a leadership change at its wholly owned subsidiary, Exide Energy Solutions Limited (EESL), along with a fresh equity infusion to support the company’s lithium-ion battery manufacturing plans. Mandar V Deo stepped down as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of EESL with effect from December 22, 2025. The Board has…
PNB Housing Finance has announced the appointment of Ajai Shukla as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, effective December 18, 2025. His appointment is for a period of five years and has been approved by the board of directors following a recommendation from the nomination and remuneration committee and receipt of the required regulatory approvals….
In an environment where insurance is being reshaped by digital scale, artificial intelligence and rising cyber threats, risk leadership has become central to institutional credibility. In this exclusive conversation with K V Dipu, Senior President, Bajaj General Insurance, reflects on nearly three decades of leadership across cards, finance and insurance and outlines how his philosophy…
Liquidity risk has re-emerged as the defining challenge for corporate treasurers worldwide. In global surveys, it consistently ranks as the No. 1 concern, ahead of FX volatility, cyber incidents and counterparty risk. Elevated interest rates have sharpened the cost of holding excess cash, while vulnerabilities in banking systems across the US, Europe and parts of…
As enterprises accelerate the adoption of agentic AI and cloud-native architectures, Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud have announced a major expansion of their long-standing strategic partnership, aimed at embedding security across the full lifecycle of AI development and deployment. The collaboration seeks to address a growing trust deficit in enterprise AI by combining Google…
India’s financial architecture has periodically undergone step-change reforms that quietly but fundamentally altered economic participation. Bank nationalisation expanded credit access. Dematerialisation modernised capital markets. UPI democratised payments at an unprecedented scale. The growing conversation around asset tokenisation suggests the next frontier may lie not in how Indians transact, but in how they own, invest and…
For much of the decade following the global financial crisis, currency volatility was treated as a manageable background risk rather than a board-level concern. Central banks smoothed extremes, interest rates stayed near historic lows and treasury teams optimised around efficiency rather than resilience. That era has decisively ended. Since 2022, global treasurers have been forced…
Corporate fraud in 2025 did not merely “move online”. It learned to operate like a digital business process. Fraud schemes increasingly mirrored legitimate workflows, exploiting payment rails, identity systems and insider access with a precision that traditional controls were never designed to detect. What emerged was a new doctrine of misconduct: faster execution, lower visibility…
Dr. Ravi Seshadri on what a three-way merger could mean for India’s insurance ecosystem Interview conducted by Prashant Laxmeshwar for RiskAwareness.in As India’s general insurance sector prepares for a potentially transformative consolidation, the proposed merger of Oriental Insurance Company, National Insurance Company and United India Insurance has triggered intense debate across boardrooms, regulator corridors and…
