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Citigroup onboards Viswas Raghavan as head of banking and executive vice chairman

Viswas Raghavan will lead the cluster and banking heads across global network alongside Ernesto Torres Cantú, head of international. He will also work closely with David Livingstone and Citigroup's vice chairs. (Image source: FutureStarr No BS News)

Prior to this, Viswas Raghavan was the head of global investment banking at JP Morgan.

Election Commission asks MIB to direct Cinema owners to screen voter awareness film

The Commission further said, AIR and DD may be asked to produce and air programmes on voter education. It also asked to appoint a nodal officer for hassle-free coordination for rolling out the voter awareness programmes as mentioned above. (Image source: Unsplash)

MIB has been asked by the Election Commission of India to direct Cinema owners to screen voter awareness film “My Vote My Duty” in theatres across country.

ChatGPT, Gemini rival?: Bhavish Aggarwal’s Krutrim launches an AI chatbot

Krutrim means 'artificial' in Sanskrit. According to the company, Krutrim is “an AI model of our own, built on local Indian knowledge, languages, and data.” (Image source: Moneycontrol)

Krutrim’s AI chatbot is its first product after founder Bhavish Aggarwal announced the venture in December.

Amazon Pay gets RBI’s payment aggregator license

The regulator gave its go ahead to the payments app to carry out business as payment aggregator, which will allow it to facilitate ecommerce transactions through its app, Moneycontrol reported. (Representative Image: Christian Wiediger via Unsplash)

Amazon Pay secures payment aggregator license from RBI. The RBI has given the license to as many as 10 companies since the start of 2024, including Zomato, Juspay, Decentro, Zoho and Stripe.

Volvo Cars’ customer service head Kalpit Shishodia elevated to director commercial operations

Kalpit Shishodia, who led the customer service function since 2017, has been promoted to the role of director commercial operations to oversee all revenue generating functions under sales and service.

Kalpit Shishodia will oversee all revenue generating functions under sales and service.

ZEE, SEBI case: Subhash Chandra moves SAT against SEBI order

The proceedings at SAT are set to resume on March 19. (Image source: Moneycontrol)

In August 2023, SEBI passed an interim order against ZEE promoters Subhash Chandra and his son Punit Goenka, barring them from holding any directorships in listed companies, over allegations of funds siphoning.

Swiggy changes registered name from Bundl Technologies to Swiggy Pvt Ltd ahead of IPO

On February 27, Swiggy had changed its registered name from Bundl Technologies Pvt Ltd to Swiggy Pvt Ltd. (Image sourced from CNBC)

The name change will be subject to the approval of the Registrar of Companies.

Former Twitter engineers building AI-powered newsreader called Particle

The company says, Particle Media, Inc.(PMI in short) is intended to redefine the way users consume web contents. It is a technology-driven interest-oriented content portal, “Interest Portal” in short, which facilitates users to efficiently define and explore their interests, evolves users’ interest by continuously learning from their interactions with the contents as well as the social circles, and algorithmically delivers the most personally relevant contents with respect to users’ interests. (Representative Image: Roman Martyniuk via Unsplash)

Particle leverages AI to summarize the news, but also aims to do so in a way that fairly compensates authors and publishers.

Paytm’s Vijay Shekhar Sharma steps down as Paytm Bank’s non-executive chairman and board member

This is part of reconstituting the Board of the payments bank, the company said. OCL owns the Paytm brand, stated Moneycontrol.

Vijay Shekhar Sharma’s resignation comes ahead of the March 15 deadline by Reserve Bank of India (RBI), for restrictions on deposits and credit transactions by Paytm Payments Bank.

Confectionery Kings: Meet the Indian execs running global ops for Mondelez, Perfetti, Mars, Hersheys

A host of leading foods and confectionery companies boasts a list of Indian executives who are transforming the business and marketing landscape through their business acumen, deep rooted customer understanding and unmatched marketing skills. (From left to right: Hemant Rupani, Anil Viswanathan, Avik Sarkar, Sameer Suneja, Ankit Desai, Deepak Iyer and Sudhanshu Nagpal. (Image source: Alchetron.com and LinkedIn))

The number of Indian executives running global operations for the world’s largest confectionery companies is on the rise. Take a look at some of the confectionery kings.