Tamal Bandyopadhay is one of the most respected business
journalists in India and an author. His weekly column `Banker's Trust' in Mint,
India's second largest business daily, is widely read for its deep insights
into the world of finance and its unerring ability to anticipate major policy
moves. His three books on finance, namely `A Bank for The Buck', `Sahara: The
Untold Story' and `Bandhan: The Making of a Bank' have been best sellers. His
latest book, a Penguin Random House publication, `From Lehman to
Demonetization: The Decade That Shaped Indian Banking' is likely to be released
later this year. Incidentally, the Sahara group had slapped a Rs200 crore
defamation suit against him to stop the publication of the book on the group.
Linkedin, the global professional network, has nominated
him as one of the top ten finance voices in the world for two successive years
- 2015 and 2016. Thinkers magazine has listed him one of the top 50 influential
minds that have made indelible contributions in the field of economics and
governance in India in 2017. Bandyopadhyay has kept a close watch on the
financial sector for over two decades and has had a ringside view of the
enormous changes in Indian finance over this period. He has been a frequent
speaker at seminars across India and overseas, and has hosted a very successful
weekly show (by the same name as his weekly column) on television, featuring
some of India’s most respected bankers, policy makers, central bankers and
regulators. He has contributed to The Oxford Companion to Economics in India,
edited by Kaushik Basu and published by Oxford University Press. Bandyopadhyay
is currently a consulting editor with Mint and an adviser, strategy, with
Bandhan Bank Ltd.