In a recent development, Airtel Payments Bank appoints Anubrata Biswas as its Managing Director & CEO, which will help to drive the company’s mission to take convenient and innovative digital banking services to the doorstep of every Indian.

“We are delighted to have Anubrata on board. I am confident that his experience will add immense value to the bank’s agenda of financial inclusion and digital leadership. I wish him the very best for his new assignment.”

Anubrata brings with him over 17 years of rich experience in the banking sector. He was the Joint General Manager and Retail Business Head – South India for ICICI Bank and was responsible for managing the retail banking business across over 550 branches of the bank.

Anubrata has held various senior level positions both in India and abroad; he was the Retail Banking Head of ICICI Bank UK, NRI and Remittances Head of ICICI Bank.

Sunil Bharti Mittal, Chairman, Airtel Payments Bank, says, “We are delighted to have Anubrata on board. I am confident that his experience will add immense value to the bank’s agenda of financial inclusion and digital leadership. I wish him the very best for his new assignment.”

Being the first payments bank to start operations in India, Airtel Payments Bank is a fully paperless and digital bank which aims to bring banking services closer to customers by leveraging a huge distribution network of over 500,000 banking points. With more than millions of merchants under their belt, customers can make sure that secure digital payments are done.