Atul Barve

Background

About Atul Barve

30+ years of successful banking career, including at top management positions, across banking verticals with a proven entrepreneurial approach and verifiable track record of spotting opportunities and effective / profitable execution of the same Presently working as a Senior Consultant (since May-2019) for HDFC Bank Ltd in the Government & Institutional Business Group on a strategically important project to build alternative technologically enabled distribution model across India for Business Correspondent(BC)/ Business Facilitator(BF) channel. Role involves developing and overseeing strategy as well as implementation including operations set-up, IT systems identification, risk and regulatory compliance and franchise/business tie ups Prior to this, worked as Branch Banking Head - East (2013-19) in the grade of Senior Executive Vice President (C2 Grade) with HDFC Bank based at Kolkata heading over 450 branches across 12 states in Eastern India handling business mix of over plus and heading a team size of over staff members Deep and proven expertise in Consumer Banking, Retail Branch Banking, Wealth and HNW Programs, Retail Liabilities Business, Retail Assets Distribution, Cards & Payments products as well as Product Management, Product Process Controls, Process Journey Designs, Operations and Audit – Compliance at senior management level Skilled in and updated in Digital Banking and Payments, MicroATM based Branch-less Banking and remittances. Form factor agnostic PoS and SoftPoS based Merchant Payments for mass market deployments across geographies. Have built expertise through deeper studies in vertical level business opportunities basis demographics and business lines like healthcare – agricultural industry – rural ecosystem - rural growth opportunities-mass affluent programs and government business Deep hands-on experience in Securities Broking Business, Wealth Management, Real Estate “Broking n Markets” and Third-Party Products Verifiable track record of successfully navigating through banking-regulatory environment, having experience, and understanding of Banking industry RBI (Central Bank) obligations & guidelines Open and clear communicator with demonstrated strategic vision and disciplined execution Education : BSc (Chemistry), MA (Economics), MMS (Finance and Marketing), CAIIB, Dipolma in Computer Applications in Banking, Advanced Programme in FINTECH and Financial Blockchain by Indian Institute Of Management (IIM) Calcutta.