3 Indian Women Bankers In Fortune’s Top 20 List!

State Bank of India’s chairperson Arundhati Bhattacharya, ICICI Bank’s chief Chanda Kochhar and Axis Bank CEO Shikha Sharma were ranked in the top twenty of the 50 Most Powerful Women International list released by Fortune. The list, which consisted of women based outside the United States, placed Arundhati Bhatacharya at the 2nd spot while Chanda Kochhar was ranked at 5th. Shikha Sharma has been listed on the 19th position.

Elaborating the profile of SBI chief, Arundhati, Fortune said, 'Bhattacharya's profile has risen during her three-year tenure atop India's largest bank, a 210-year-old institution. She has continued her high-profile battle with the bank's bad loans, while courting overseas partners invest in the stressed assets.'

Beside, ICICI Bank's Managing Director and CEO Kochhar was acknowledged as a visionary even by rival bankers. 'After seven years at the helm of India's largest private sector lender, with consolidated assets of $139 billion, Kochhar has overhauled the nation's consumer retail business,'  Fortune said while highlighting her effort to augment the bank's performance.

Acknowledging Sharma's contribution to the private lender, Fortune said, 'Sharma has grown Axis from an underrepresented bank to the nation's fastest growing private sector lender, with revenue up 15 per cent to $7.9 billion in 2015 and nearly 3000 branches across 1,800 cities and towns.'

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