Amit Saxena has recently joined as the CTO of the RBI Innovation Hub. The Reserve Bank Innovation Hub (RBIH) was set up recently to promote innovation across the financial sector by leveraging on technology and creating an environment that would facilitate and foster innovation. Its mandate includes creating an ecosystem focused on promoting access to financial services and products, developing internal infrastructure to promote fintech start ups, collaborating with different FIs, the tech industry and academia as well as developing prototypes for innovative financial products.
As the CTO of RBIH, Saxena will execute this mandate with the mission to build an innovation ecosystem for India’s BFSI sector. He will be based in Bangalore and will report to Rajesh Bansal CEO of RBI Innovation Hub.
Saxena has over 22 years of experience in IT Strategy formation, Application development, Stakeholder Management, and product development. In his last job as Global Deputy CTO of SBI, Saxena played a leading role in driving digital initiatives and innovations in customer-centric journeys. Before joining SBI, he worked for companies like Syntel, HCL technologies, TechMahindra, and Quark.
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