Mr. Arun Khurana
Whole-Time Director (Executive Director)
Mr. Arun Khurana joined the Bank in November 2011 and is Deputy CEO of the Bank since April 1, 2020 and is also the overall head of Global Markets Group (GMG), Transaction Banking Group (TBG), Investment Banking, Financial Institutions & Public Sector, Financial Restructuring & Reconstruction Group (FRRG), Centralised Fraud Monitoring Unit (CFMU), Pan Bank Liabilities Group (PBLG), etc. He is an essential attendee and a mandatory invitee for Board meetings and some of the Sub-Committees of the Board (Audit Committee, Risk Management Committee, Committee of Directors, etc.). He is qualified as a Chartered Accountant and has over 29 years of banking experience. He began his banking career with Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) followed by ABN AMRO Bank which was subsequently acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland. With RBS India, he was Managing Director & Head of Global Markets, wherein he built a successful franchise across Trading, Sales, DCM and Equity. Thereafter, he went on to become the Managing Director and Head of Corporate Solutions Asia Pacific with RBS, Singapore. He has also worked and held senior positions across geographies in London, Dubai and Singapore giving him broad international exposure across various markets. He has worked extensively with clients ranging from Global Development Institutions, Global banks, Insurers, Hedge funds, Financial institutions, Multinational Corporations, Public sector companies, local corporates and has demonstrated value generating, capital preserving business strategies; influences strategic decisions and is a positive communicator. He believes to sustain value, leverage best practices of risk and governance to contain credit, operational and regulatory risk in rapidly altering market situations, enhance client acquisition by adapting digital strategy across financial products. Through significant experience of leading businesses to capture market niches and deliver clients first, he has earned a reputation for creating and leading a high performance culture, inspiring people’s loyalty and energizing teams into building profitable and sustainable businesses.
