Rupnarayan Bose
Country Editor - India

Name: Rupnarayan Bose

Position: Director of the Institute of Bank Studies (I)
BE-337, Salt Lake City, Calcutta 700064, India

Phone: (+91 33) 2358 2976;
Mobile: 98304 02343
Website: http://www.rnbose.net
E-mails: rnbose@gmail.com, mail@rnbose.net

BANKING CAREER HIGHLIGHTS (1/1974 – 12/2001):

TransAfrica Bank, Kampala, Uganda
Job title: Managing Director
Managing Director & CEO of a commercial bank in the private sector.

Diamond Trust Bank, Nairobi, Kenya - A member of the Aga Khan Group
Job title: Regional General Manager (International Banking, Treasury, Operations)
Head of Treasury & money market, international banking, correspondent banking, remittances & branch operations (East Africa Region including all offices in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania).

Fina Bank Limited, Nairobi, Kenya
Job title: Managing Director
MD & CEO of a highly reputed commercial bank with substantial exposure to international banking business, trade finance, remittances, asset finance.

Mukand Global Finance, Bombay, India
Job title: President
A full-fledged merchant banking and financial services company.

20th. Century Finance Corporation Limited, Bombay, India
Job title: Vice President – Operations.
Headed Operations, I.T., branch coordination, Accounts. Set up Centurion Bank Ltd.; signatory to its M & A, and member of its first Board of Directors. Created ‘Anywhere Banking’.

State Bank of Hyderabad, Sion Branch, Bombay, India (On deputation)
Job title: Branch Manager
Largest exposure and turnover in diamond, gem & jewellery trade. Largest forex turnover in the whole bank network. More than 200 accounts of importers and exporters. After 17 years it turned to a profit-making branch.

SBH - Bombay Main Office, Bombay, India
Job title: Head/Chief Manager, International Banking Division

State Bank of Mysore, Head Office, Bangalore.
Job title: Chief Manager, Foreign Department
Served as Chief Forex Dealer, Head - Trade Finance, Head-Correspondent Banking. Managed relationships with all correspondents for over 4 years.

State Bank of Mysore, R. B. Avenue Br., Calcutta
Job title: Branch Manager
[Joined the State Bank group as a Probationary Officer on 1/1/1974].

• Since 1984 lectured at seminars and workshops organised by FEDAI, FKCCI, SBI (LHO-Bangalore), IIM (Bangalore), Reserve Bank of India etc. on trade finance, payment risk management, documentary credits and ICC Rules, treasury operations, exchange rate mechanism, risk management in credit and international business, banking operations. Visiting faculty at training institutes in India and E. Africa (including Kenya Institute of Bankers).
• Published a large number of articles in reputed periodical and trade journals in India viz., Economic Times, Financial Express, Business Standard, Business Line, and in leading dailies of East Africa e.g. The Daily Nation (Nairobi, Kenya), New Vision (Kampala, Uganda).

Markus has been working in the Trade Finance sector for more than 23 years and was previously in charge of HypoVereinsbank’s Trade & Payment Products as well as the Trade Finance activities,commercial and mid-long-term Trade Finance products in Japan and Italy.

CURRENT CAREER PROFILE

• Author, visiting faculty; speaker and advisor on areas of commercial banking, documentary credits, ICC rules, trade finance, international banking.
• Author of books titled An Introduction to Documentary Credits (Macmillan, Nov. ’06), Fundamentals of International Banking (Macmillan, Oct. ’07), and All About UCP 600 (Macmillan, December ’08).
• Visiting faculty, speaker at programmes conducted by commercial banks, Reserve Bank, IIFT., management schools, industry forums, chambers of commerce.

CURRENT AFFILIATIONS

• Member, Governing Body, Acharya Prafulla Chandra College, Calcutta 700029
• Member, Expert Committee of the Indian Chamber of Commerce on World Trade and WTO
• Seminar Leader, International Chamber of Commerce India (ICC India), New Delhi.
• Life Member, Calcutta Management Association.

PAST AFFILIATIONS

Council Member - Kenya Bankers' Association, Nairobi (1999), Kenya
Associated Chamber of Commerce and Industry, New Delhi, India (1993-1998)
Member – Expert Committee on Finance, Banking & Insurance (1995-98)
Indian Merchant Chamber, Bombay, India (1992-1998)
Member – Expert Committee on Finance, Banking & Insurance (1995-98)
Bombay Management Association, Bombay, India (1992-1998)
Member - Executive Committee (1995-1996);
Member - Membership Development Committee (1995-1996);
Chairman - Secretariat Committee (1995-1996).
Member - Rotary Club of Bombay Sion, District 3140, Bombay, India (1993-1998)
Editor - Club Bulletin (1995-1996).