Indian Bank Honors Women Achievers on International Women’s Day 2025
Chennai, March 11, 2025 – Indian Bank commemorated International Women’s Day 2025 with a series of events celebrating the strength, resilience, and achievements of women. The celebration was attended by Shri Binod Kumar, MD & CEO, along with Executive Directors.
A special webinar on “Work Life Balance for a Woman and a Counterpoint” was hosted by the Bank, wherein Justice Prabha Sridevan (Retd) addressed the key issues faced by women in the society.
To empower women, under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiatives, Bank provided aids and appliances to physically challenged women and girl beneficiaries from Akshaya Trust, Chennai.
As part of the celebrations, Indian Bank also felicitated two eminent women in the field of mental health, Dr. Thara Rangaswamy, Co-Founder of SCARF and Dr. Lakshmi Vijayakumar, Founder of SNEHA, for their outstanding contributions. Dr. Thara Rangaswamy has shed light on the impact of social media in our daily lives. Dr. Lakshmi Vijayakumar stressed that motivating the younger generation is the key to develop healthy young minds.
Indoor and outdoor sports activities were organized engaging employees in a spirit of camaraderie and teamwork. With these celebrations, Indian Bank continues to champion gender equality and empowerment, ensuring that women remain at the forefront of progress in both professional and societal spheres.
Indian Bank to Host Cyber Security & FinTech Hackathon with IIT Madras
Chennai, February 5th, 2025 – Indian Bank will organize a hackathon on Cyber Security & FinTech in association with IIT Madras in April 2025. The proposed hackathon will be a part of the hackathon series by Public Sector Banks (PSBs) in compliance to DFS and IBA guidelines to conduct hackathon series in association with different IITs, Universities and Science institutions.
The hackathon will focus on Key issues such in the FinTech and Advanced Fraud Detection Mechanism in Cyber Security domains. This exclusive hackathon is open to students and scholars of IIT Madras, providing them with an opportunity to innovate and contribute to strengthen the financial security ecosystem.
In this connection, Bank entered into an agreement with IIT Madras. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed today between Shri Binaya Bhusan Dikshit, General Manager (Digital Business & FinTech Partnership) of Indian Bank, and Prof. Manu Santhanam, Dean (Industrial Consultancy & Sponsored Research) of IIT Madras. The signing ceremony took place in the presence of Shri Deepak Sarda, Chief General Manager (IT & Partnership/CTO/CIO) of Indian Bank and other senior officials.
With this Indian Bank takes a step ahead in fostering innovation in financial security, fintech domain and digital banking, aligning with the Government of India’s vision for a robust and secure digital financial ecosystem.