The Bengal Chamber of Commerce & Industry organised the ‘Financial Market E-Conclave: Indian Financial Markets: To Save, To Protect and To Invest in a Volatile World’ on 24^th September, 2021 on an Exclusive Online Platform. The Conclave was a bird view of analyzing the entire financial sector at one platform.

Everything is intertwined and in this entangled chain there exists a huge chaos. On one hand we need disruption, quantum jump, innovation and on the other hand we need to maintain discipline. We need to walk through the path of chaos and discipline and maintain the balance. It is interesting to understand the overall dynamics of the entire financial market at one go and to understand how to save, invest and protect in a volatile world and the preparedness for the stakeholders in serving the same for the citizen of our country. In this background, the ‘Financial Market E-Conclave’ was addressed by eminent speakers from all over India who deliberated upon ‘Strategies to harbor the desired Growth during Next Normal’, ‘Expanding limits of Financial Market: Power of Technology”, ‘Indian Capital Market: The Way Forward’ , ‘The Stock Market Story: Learning from The Big Bull and Scam: 1992’, ‘Indian Insurance Industry: Riding through Waves’ and “Indian Financial Market: Preparedness for the Next- Normal Economy.

Shri R Gandhi, Former Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of India was the Chief Guest and Shri Dinesh Kumar Khara, Chairman, State Bank of India was the Guest of Honour.

Mr. Deb A Mukherjee, President, The Bengal Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Mr. Abraham Stephanos, President Designate, BCC&I and Managing Director, Tata Steel Downstream Products Limited delivered the Welcome Address at the Opening & Valedictory Session respectively. Mr. Ramesh Kumar Bansal, Chairman, Banking and Finance Committee, BCC&I delivered the Vote of Thanks at the Opening session.

The E-Conclave was moderated by Mr. Tamal Bandyopadhyay, Author & Columnist and Chairman Emeritus, Banking and Finance Committee, BCC&I, Mr. Parthanil Ghosh, President- Motor Business, HDFC ERGO General Insurance Co. Ltd. & Member, Banking & Finance Committee, BCC&I, Mr. S Suresh Kumar, Head - Treasury, ITC Limited, Mr. Mayank Jha, MD & Partner, Boston Consulting Group and Mr. Siddhant Mehta, Partner, Boston Consulting Group.

The E-Conclave was addressed by Chief Mentor: Mr. C S Ghosh, MD & CEO, Bandhan Bank Ltd., Mr. Imtaiyazur Rahman, CEO & Whole-time Director, UTI Mutual Fund, Mr. Sundeep Sikka, ED & CEO, Nippon India Mutual Fund, Mr. Vishal Kapoor, CEO, IDFC Mutual Fund, Mr. Raamdeo Agrawal, Chairman, Motilal Oswal Financial Services, Mr. Dhiraj Relli, MD & CEO, HDFC securities Limited, Mr. Subhasis Ghosh, Joint President, Kotak Life Insurance Co., Mr. Ravi Vishwanath - President : A&H Business, HDFC ERGO, Ltd., Mr. Alok Agarwal, Executive Director, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd., Mr. Vidya Prakash, Sr. VP- High Opportunity Market, Tata AIG General Insurance Co Ltd., Mr. Amit Gupta, Executive Vice President & National Head-Institutional Business, SBI Mutual Fund, Mr. Pankaj Bansal, Chief Business Officer, BankBazaar, Mr. Sreekanth Nadella, CEO, KFin Technologies Pvt. Ltd. and Mr. Bikram Singh, Head-Consumer Business, Experian India.

The E-Conclave received widespread media coverage and had a viewership of over a lakh.