Srinath Sridharan

India Must Lead Change: Srinath Sridharan

by Srinath Sridharan |Jun 18, 2025

The world is dodging climate responsibility and delay is not an option. India must act with urgency and originality.

The past few years has seen the dramatic rise in businesses start-ups, founded by young first-generation entrepreneurs from non-business backgrounds.

What can Indian family businesses learn from new-age start-ups?

by Srinath Sridharan |Dec 14, 2021

Indian family-run businesses are questioning their low-risk and snail’s pace of growth, inspired by the dramatic rise of start-ups. Here’s what they can learn from India’s vibrant start-up ecosystem.

The boards of most listed entities, including the large promoter-led companies, have been lazy with the concept of succession planning

Why CEO succession planning should be top priority for company boards

by Srinath Sridharan |Jun 25, 2021

In today's volatile corporate world, the board has an important role of overseeing the CEO succession planning as a planned process

The payments space in India is tangled in various knots and there are many teething issues that will arise in the future

India's e-payments space: A dawn or down of retail in India?

by Shashidhar KJ |Apr 16, 2021

With the government unwilling to foot the bill on digital transactions and no viable business model for banks, there are no incentives for banks to maintain the UPI infrastructure

Regulators are expected to steer the sector towards stable growth, in a way to better the offerings for consumers

Can regulators have simple licencing conditions for sub-scale financial companies?

by Srinath Sridharan |Mar 31, 2021

A consumer-friendly regulator has to solve all consumer issues regarding any of their industry brands - irrespective of their scale of business

The introduction of the Co-Lending Model (CLM) allows banks and registered NBFCs to co-lend to provide credit

MSME funding: How FinTechs can help address credit gap for small businesses

by Satyam Kumar |Mar 3, 2021

A symbiotic relationship between banks and digital NBFCs can lead the way towards a win-win situation for all

Financial inclusion can only be improved by strengthening consumer awareness and increasing product choices

Digital lending: Now more than ever we need fintechs to democratise credit, uplift livelihoods

by Akshay Mehrotra |Jan 17, 2021

The digital innovation India has made so far is here to stay. It needs adoption into commercial application to deepen the financial inclusion net

It's time we wake up to the dangers of O&D, work towards better awareness to demystify the topic, and work better as a society in prevention of it and care for those affected

Obesity & Diabetes: How corporates and society can help deal with these silent killers

by Srinath Sridharan |Dec 30, 2020

The human cost and the price for not addressing adequately the topic of obesity & diabetes is very high. Also, it impairs our social development as well as reduced economic development potential. ...

A bad bank is simply a corporate structure that isolates liquidity and high-risk assets held by a bank or a financial organisation, or perhaps a group of such lenders

Why 'Bad Bank' is a bad idea for India

by Srinath Sridharan |Dec 23, 2020

Bad banks as a concept works efficiently when the domestic debt market is deep and the number of market participants is wide enough to allow sufficient price-discovery and market-making

There are corporates that are already using neuroscience-based learning initiatives to help teams perform better, both at the individual as well as collective level

Post-COVID-World: How neuroscience can help corporate India ensure efficient organisations

by Smita Affinwalla |Dec 16, 2020

With decades of scientific research and development of management science, it's time that corporate India adopts neuroscience-based learning initiatives to help teams perform better. And no other bett...