Presents
- 5-6th February, 2025
- Mumbai, India
BFS2025 BFS2025 BFS2025
Highlights
Footfalls
Industry Speakers
Sessions
Product Launches
Workshops & Masterclasses
Industry Report Launches
Report Launches
Re-imagining Home Loans
Partnership Lending 2.0
Speakers 2025
Chief Guest
Shri Manish Bhardwaj
Deputy Director General
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Dilip Asbe
Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer
National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
Rajeev Ahuja
Executive Director
RBL Bank
Rajeev Ahuja
Executive Director
RBL Bank
Rajeev Ahuja is the Executive Director of RBL Bank and has over 35 years of experience in the financial services industry. He served as interim Managing Director & CEO of the Bank during the period from December 25, 2021, till June 23, 2022 (F/N).
Prior to joining RBL Bank, he was Managing Director – Investor Sales Business (South Asia) with Citigroup, India. He also had a 7-year stint as a Director in the Capital Markets and Investment Banking divisions of Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank in Singapore and Hong Kong. He was also associated with Bank of America in his career journey.
Rajeev has been an integral part of RBL Bank’s transformation journey since his joining in 2010. He is responsible for building the overall strategy of the Bank while managing its Retail Banking, Transaction Banking and Financial Inclusion businesses. He is also responsible for the Bank’s capital raising, development of new businesses, partnerships and investor relations functions.
Shalini Warrier
Co-founder & CEO
Gosree Finance Limited
Praveena Rai
Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer
Multi Commodity Exchange of India
Pankaj Gadgil
Managing Director and CEO
Aditya Birla Housing Finance
Pankaj Gadgil
Managing Director and CEO
Aditya Birla Housing Finance
Pankaj Gadgil is the Managing Director and CEO, Aditya Birla Housing Finance Limited and Head, Digital Platforms and Payments Strategy, Aditya Birla Capital.
Having joined the Aditya Birla Group in 2022, Pankaj has since been responsible for providing strategic direction to the housing finance company and building it as a material player in the industry. In addition, he has been driving the development of Aditya Birla Capital’s digital platform and strategy for its payments business. Pankaj has been instrumental in building the omnichannel D2C platform – ABCD, which offers a comprehensive suite of financial products and services, and digital payment solutions.
BG Mahesh
CEO
Sahamati
BG Mahesh
CEO
Sahamati
Mahesh is passionate about building products to Bharat – the Real India. He did this for 2 decades with Indian languages in digital media & now with Account Aggregators to deliver data empowerment.
In 2019, Mahesh co-founded Sahamati, a Collective of the Account Aggregator ecosystem. AAs give individuals & corporates greater control over their data and are towards financial inclusion in India. In 2023 over 2.1 billion bank accounts have been AA-enabled.
Technocrat and an innovative thinker, Mahesh pioneered digital technologies in Indian languages way before the Digital India charter took shape. Mahesh founded Greynium Information Technologies Pvt Ltd a company that owns India’s largest multi-lingual portal, Oneindia.com.
Indraneel Pandit
Chief Digital Officer
Federal Bank
Kamlesh Rao
MD & CEO
Aditya Birla Sunlife Insurance
Kamlesh Rao
MD & CEO
Aditya Birla Sunlife Insurance
In a career spanning more than two decades, Kamlesh has been an integral part of the Banking & Financial Services industry. His portfolio includes driving & establishing businesses like Consumer Finance, Privilege Banking, and Capital markets. Key strengths include his strategic mindset along with entrepreneurial approach, teamed with an analytical bent of mind. His passion for numbers makes him an ace at his game. These strengths have been instrumental in making him a part of successful business stories such as K-Value, Big & Small ticket size personal loans, Home loan & Loans against property and launching the Privy League – privilege banking platform for Kotak Mahindra Bank.
Inderjit Camotra
MD & CEO
Unity Small Finance Bank
Inderjit Camotra
MD & CEO
Unity Small Finance Bank
Senior Banker with 28 years across Standard Chartered, ANZ and Citibank. Managing Director & CEO of Unity Small Finance Bank, India’s Digital First Bank.
Robust technical strengths shaped with a B.Tech from I.I.T. Delhi, followed by a M.B.A. from New York, have helped build a career in Lending to SMEs, MSMEs & Multi Nationals across America, Australia, and India.
Inderjit is a resource person for Digital Banking, eCommerce, Technology innovations in Banking and Blockchain. An ardent corporate speaker, connects passionately with Student Bodies across Management Institutes, Industry Conclaves and a familiar face at Symposiums and Seminars with a clarity of view on futuristic Banking & Digital innovation.
George John
Executive Director
ESAF Small Finance Bank
George John
Executive Director
ESAF Small Finance Bank
Executive Director with nearly three decades of experience in Banking, Finance & Development, specializing in driving organizational transformation and growth.
His career spans from grassroots volunteer to whole time director, with a strong track record across various regions in India. As the Executive Director of ESAF Small Finance Bank, he continues to build on his leadership journey, focusing on strategic development and innovation.
In his previous role as Executive Vice President at ESAF Small Finance Bank, he was instrumental in its transformation, leading critical functions including IT, Operations, Finance, Treasury, Digital Banking, MIS, and Sustainable Banking. His efforts were key in expanding ESAF’s microfinance and development programs across southern, central, and eastern India.
Abhi Jeet
Director
Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI)
Abhijit Singh
Group Head - Banking as a Service(BaaS), International Banking and Digital Ecosystem Banking
HDFC Bank
Abhishek Kothari
Founder | Chief Executive Officer
Fab Money
Aisik Paul
Chief Technology Officer
Data Sutram
Ajay Rajan
Country Head - Government, MNC & International Business, Transaction Banking & Knowledge Units
Yes Bank
Ajay Rajan
Country Head - Government, MNC & International Business, Transaction Banking & Knowledge Units
Yes Bank
Mr. Ajay Rajan brings with him more than 25 years of corporate transaction banking experience. He is responsible for propelling Sales growth & Product development initiatives across all Transaction Banking products namely Cash Management, Capital Market & Custodial Services, Trade Finance & Supply Chain Finance, Foreign Exchange Services and Bullion Products) at YES Bank where he spearheads most of the Corporate Digital Innovation initiatives for the Bank and also manage partnerships with Fintechs & other Strategic Influencers. He is also responsible for policy framework management, operational risk and information risk management across his functions. He is a regular speaker at various national and international forums related to banking products, innovation & digital.
Prior to joining YES Bank, he was the Global Head of Fintech for Deutsche Bank. He brings with him strong networking abilities with a proven track record of client solutioning, product innovation and launching & managing businesses.
Mr. Ajay Rajan has completed his Bachelors of Commerce from Delhi University and has an MBA degree.
Ajay Ramasubramaniam
Founder & CEO
Startup Réseau
Ajay Sahasrabuddhe
Chief Revenue Officer
Hero Fincorp
Ajay Thomas John
Group Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
Shriram Capital
Ajay Thomas John
Group Chief Digital Officer (CDO)
Shriram Capital
A passionate, result oriented professional with 20+ years of extensive experience in Digital Transformation, e-Business, Product/Program Management, Marketing, Business Development, Business Operations and Partner Management. Have hands on experience in effectively creating turnarounds in challenging business models and making them into profitable ventures. Leveraged entrepreneurial ability to overcome complex business challenges and garnered buy-in from stake holders to take high impact decisions. Skilled at managing and handling large teams, setting up channels, motivating and monitoring them.
Amarjit Singh Walia
Head Consumer and Commercial Card
ICICI Bank
Amit Goel
Managing Partner & Founder
gAI ventures
Amit Mandhanya
Executive Vice President- Partnership based Lending
Northern Arc
Amit Mandhanya
Executive Vice President- Partnership based Lending
Northern Arc
Amit Pathak
Business Head, Personal Loans and Consumer Finance Business
Kotak Bank
Ankit Agrawal
Vice President, Product
Knight Fintech
Anuradha Ramachandran
Managing Partner
Prana Ventures
Anuradha Ramachandran
Managing Partner
Prana Ventures
Anuradha Ramachandran is Managing Partner at TCF. With more than 18 years of experience in investing, Anuradha will drive investments and portfolio management across different verticals we invest in.
Anuradha has rich experience spanning over 18 years and 4 years of M&A and corporate planning.
Anuradha is a high calibre investment professional having handled, development of strategy, investing, portfolio management and exits across various sectors like Fintech, Technology (consumer internet, retail tech, B2B platform), Life sciences, consumer products and financial services. She has experience in team building and profile building. Anuradha believes innovation and entrepreneurship can change the lives of millions of individuals and can create massive socio-economic shifts that can benefit a growing economy like India.
Arun Pandey
Principal Partner Solution Architect APAC
Cockroach Labs
Arvind Kumar Singh
Business Head– Commercial Cards
IndusInd Bank
Arvind Kumar Singh
Business Head– Commercial Cards
IndusInd Bank
Ashish Gopal Saxena
Chief Information & Digital Officer
Jana Small Finance Bank
Ashish Goyal
Co-Founder and Whole-Time Director
Fibe
Ashish Mehrotra
MD & CEO
Northern Arc Capital
Ashish Mehrotra
MD & CEO
Northern Arc Capital
Business leader with 25 years of progressively senior experience across Retail & Commercial banking and Insurance. Have held senior CXO and Managing Director positions, and successfully built and managed large profit centres/businesses across various product lines and geographies in complex & hyper-competitive markets through credit and economic crisis, and delivered exemplary business results. Strategic build-out of new businesses and revenue streams. Led large teams of diverse employees, and built profitable growth franchises.
A strategic thinker with an analytical bent of mind, coupled with a strong execution bias and leadership skills, with a proven track record in building high growth franchises, Business transformation and delivering business results in complex and challenging environments. I have a strong understanding of the retail financial services marketplace and environment across countries in Asia-pacific and Middle East. I bring a high level of passion, energy, dedication, and integrity to the job.
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Exhibitor 2025
Investor 2025
Fintech & Digital Excellence Awards
Winners 2025
Vishal Singh
Suryoday Small Finance Bank
Shiv Kumar Bhasin
Indusind Bank
Zuzar Tinwalla
Standard Chartered Bank
Anirudh Bhardwaj
Recur Club
Krishnendu Majumdar
Yubi
Anurag Chaturvedi
M1xchange
Gaurav Duggal
Jio Platforms Limited
Srikanth Appana
Bajaj Auto Credit Limited
Priyanka Kanwar
Falcon
Sundeep Mohindru
M1Xchange
Suresh Sethi
Protean eGov Technologies Ltd.
Akash Sinha
Cashfree Payments
Dr. Raj P Narayanam
Zaggle Prepaid Ocean Services Limited
Jaya Vaidhyanathan
BCT Digital