State Bank of India has appointed Ravi Ranjan as its new Managing Director with effect from December 15, 2025, following a notification issued by the Department of Financial Services, Ministry of Finance, under the provisions of the State Bank of India Act, 1955. He assumed charge on the same day and will continue in the…
As 2025 draws to a close, it leaves behind a year that reshaped how Indian enterprises understand vulnerability, resilience and strategic preparedness. This was the year when risk ceased to be a category and became a continuum. Corporate India confronted a series of shocks that were not extraordinary in isolation, but deeply consequential because of…
Airpay Payment Services has secured authorisation from the Reserve Bank of India to function as a cross-border payment aggregator, completing its approvals under the central bank’s unified payment aggregator regime. With permissions now covering online (PA-O), offline (PA-P) and cross-border (PA-CB) categories, the Mumbai-headquartered firm enters a select group of payment players offering full-spectrum aggregation…
For much of corporate history, liquidity risk was understood in traditional financial terms. It reflected access to funding, exposure to market volatility or the ability to roll over debt in stressed conditions. Treasury operations, while important, were rarely viewed as sources of systemic fragility. That assumption no longer holds. The shift to real-time payments, digitised…
For much of the past three decades, supply chain risk was treated as an efficiency problem. Optimise sourcing, minimise inventory, compress transit times. Resilience was assumed to follow scale and globalisation. Recent years have dismantled that belief. Across the world, climate volatility, geopolitical realignment and corridor concentration are reshaping how risk manifests in supply chains….
In discussions on digital resilience, cybersecurity is frequently framed as a technical discipline, the domain of firewalls, encryption protocols, endpoint monitoring and incident response playbooks. Yet the closing argument made by Dr. Alby John Varghese IAS, CEO, Tamil Nadu e-Governance Agency at a recent cybersecurity conference organised by Amanha Idealabs in Chennai, points to a…
The contemporary risk landscape has evolved into a dense web of interdependent vulnerabilities rather than a collection of isolated threats. Across large corporates, financial institutions, mid-market entities and MSMEs, the same structural reality holds true: disruptions no longer remain confined to one domain. They spread rapidly across financial systems, supply chains, digital networks and geopolitical…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has announced the appointment of Smt. Usha Janakiraman as Executive Director (ED) with effect from today, a move that underscores the central bank’s commitment to strengthening regulatory oversight and risk management across the banking sector. Janakiraman, a Chartered Accountant by qualification, brings over three decades of rich experience within…
Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) announced the elevation of Shri Ramakrishnan Chander to the position of Managing Director effective December 1, 2025, following a formal notification issued by the Government of India. The appointment marks a significant milestone in a career spanning more than three decades with India’s largest life insurer. Chander joined LIC…
Tata Technologies has appointed Anand Kumar Sinha as its new Chief Digital and Information Officer (CDIO), strengthening its leadership bench at a time when global engineering and manufacturing clients are accelerating digital transformation programs. Sinha, a technology leader with nearly 30 years of experience across consulting, telecom, analytics, cloud, and enterprise IT, will oversee the…
