Consulting Editor, Business Standard

Shri Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an award-winning author and columnist, and a keen student of the Indian banking sector for over two and a half decades. His weekly column `Banker's Trust' is widely read for its incisive analysis and informed opinion. Currently he is a Consulting Editor with Business Standard and Senior Adviser to Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd. He was one of the key members that setup the financial daily – Mint and was an adviser at Bandhan Bank Ltd. His last publication “ Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy “ bagged the Tata Literature Live Best Business Book Award, KLF Best Business Book Award and Skoch Literature Award. His other nonfiction bestsellers are ‘HDFC Bank 2.0: From Dawn to Digital, A Bank for The Buck, Sahara: The Untold Story', Bandhan: The Making of a Bank and From Lehman to Demonetization: A Decade of Disruptions, Reforms and Misadventures.’ He is one of the contributors to the Oxford Handbook on Indian Economy, edited by Kaushik Basu, and Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government, edited by Bibek Debroy. In 2017, he won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism (commentary and interpretative writing). The global professional network LinkedIn had nominated him as one of the most influential voices in India in 2019, 2018 and 2017 and one of the top 10 writers in finance globally for 2016 and 2015.