Welcome to Banking Frontiers

BANKING FRONTIERS
Bridging Banking with Technology

India’s first publication to focus on Banking Technology & Business issues Completing 4 years of market presence Targets CEOs, Functional Heads and CTOs of Banks & IT solution providers to them.
We have Presence amongst banks all over India Endorsed by senior bankers all over the country. Equal visibility amongst Pvt. Sector, Public Sector, MNC, co-operative and small and medium banks.

Editorial Focus :

Features on latest trends in Banking
Technology updates
News about latest happenings in the banking industry
Facts & Figures about various trends and technologies
Industry research and analysis
People movements
Technology columns

Circulation & Readership Details:

Total Circulation: 6000 copies of which 5000 goes to banks and 1000 to IT solution providers

Total Readership of the magazine is 15,000.

Readership Profile:

By Banks:

97 scheduled banks including Pvt. Sector, Public sector, MNC Banks and Old generation Pvt. Sector banks and coop banks.
Over 2,000 Urban Co-operative Banks and RRB’s across the country.
250 copies of the magazine goes to medium sized international banks.

By Job profile:

Senior management of the banks, which include:

CEOs: 5%
CTOs & IT heads: 35%
Functional heads (Treasury, Cash Management, HR, Legal, Compliance, Retail Banking, ATMs, Cards, Asset Business etc:40%
Federations : 3%
IT solution providers:4%
Banking consultants: 3%
Others 10%.

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Our Business activities:

Publishing:

Publishing Banking Frontiers
Publishing buyers guides & handbooks on various technologies titled Manuscript.
- Manuscript is a 40 page research document. Contents include Case-studies, buying tips form bankers, facts & figures etc.
Publishing Bankers IT Diary.

IT Diary is a specialized diary with information on banking technologies & vendors. Contents include buying tips, facts & figures on select technologies and listings of vendors

Creating focused columns on interesting banking technologies.
Publishing specialized case-studies, reports and supplements.
E-zines or regular news updates to bankers.
Providing advertising opportunities on our website

Opportunities for working together in publishing:

Sponsoring tailor made columns on various technologies
Advertising in the magazine
Sponsoring Handbooks on various technologies
Sponsorships or advertising in the IT diary
Creating case-studies of your banking customers
Research on select technologies and their trends in the Indian banking industry
Creating specialized sponsored newsletters or ezines
Direct Mailing to limited databases
Running contests in the magazine.

Events:

The event division creates various platforms for bankers to come together and discuss topics of business concerns to them. These events are divided into two types namely:

Events for large banks
Events for small banks

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Events for Large Banks

CONFERENCES:
Banking Frontiers organizes 3-4 large banking conferences in a year on topics of wider business interest to the bankers. Some of the our notable events include...

Retail Banking Directions

Highlights:
Over 200 senior bankers as delegates from over 90 banks all over the country. 31 senior bankers (including CEO’s) and 7 IT specialists as panelists. Participation from all over India-National conference in true sense. Participant profile started from Chief Managers, GM’s and above. Keynote by Dy. Governor of RBI. This was the country’s first large scale retail banking event. Sponsors include: IBM, Sybase, NCR, Epson, Ready Test Go, 3M & Eracom. Panel discussion oriented sessions.

Payment Tech 2004

Highlights:
First large scale event to focus on payment solutions in the country Participation form over 140 bankers who attended from 60 plus banks Over 20 bankers and 10 IT specialists as panelists. Participant profile includes IT heads, Cash Management, ATMs, Cards,Treasury, Truncation, RTGS heads etc., Keynote by CGM-IT RBI & panels chaired by heads of cheque truncation and RTGS from RBI. Sponsors include: IBM, Unisys, Bankstar, Bradma, Aplab, FSS and others.

Core Banking 2005

Highlights:
First all India conference on Core Banking
Over 95 bankers from 52 banks and 24 IT vendors as participants. Participant profile includes, IT heads, Retail heads, ATM heads and others. 15 plus bankers, 3 IT consultants and 6 IT solution providers as panelists. Key sponsors include Wipro, Datacraft, Network Appliance, Symantec, Wincor Nixdorf, Numeric Systems, Euronet Worldwide and others. Keynote by ED of IDBI.

Year 2005-06

Corporate Governance & Compliance -15th October 2005
Infrastructure-TCO December 2005
Payment Tech 2006

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ROUNDTABLES:

Cheque Truncation Roundtable – Mumbai
25 bankers from over 18 banks. IT heads and Cheque Trucation heads. Power breakfast followed by two hours of discussion. Participation by almost all leading banks and select upcoming banks. Sponsored by Unisys and Canon. Report published in July 2005 issue of Banking Frontiers.

Risk Management Roundtable – Mumbai
22 panelists from over 19 banks and Financial Institutions. Chaired by the regional director of PRIMIA. Excerpts published in the May 2005 issue of Banking Frontiers.

Enterprise Content Management Roundtable – Mumbai
12 bankers from 8 banks. Moderated by the Editor of Banking Frontiers. Sponsored by Interwoven. Excerpts published in December issue of Banking Frontiers.

Storage Roundtable – Mumbai
Round table on Storage Management. Attended by 13 bankers from 9 leading banks. Sponsored by Storge Tek International. The excerpts are published in June 2004 issue.

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Small and Medium Banking Events:

Banking Frontiers is the country’s first publication to take up the initiative of spreading banking technology and trends to small and medium banks in B and C class cities all over the country where there is a good population of Co-operative and Rural banks. Since December 2004, Banking Frontiers has covered over 16 cities all over the country under the initiative titled Modern Banking, which has now graduated into Profitable Banking since April 2005. The highlights are:

Half-day seminar ending up with either lunch or dinner
Average attendance of 100 bankers in each city from 35-50 banks
Every event is in association with a local banking federation
2-3 business and 2-3 technology sessions per city.
Stall space/table space to display banking products & solutions.

Cities covered:
Kolhapur, Belgaum, Mangalore, Bangalore, Calicut, Kochi, Surat, Ahmedabad, Rajkot, Pune, Nashik, Aurangabad.

Our valuable partners:
We partner with associations and federations of banks

Indian Banks Association
Professional Risk Managers International Association
Smart Card Federation of India
Maharashtra Urban Coop Banks Federation

Associations of coop banks in Kolhapur, Belgaum, Kochi, Mangalore, Bangalore, South Gujarat, Saurashtra-Kutch, Marathwada, Nasik, Pune, etc.

Opportunities for working in SME banks segments:

National conference on Co-operative Banking
Participating in Profitable Banking
Roundtables for select co-operative banks in cities with lesser large banks
Sponsoring the section on Co-operative banking in the magazine
Sponsoring handbook on Core Banking/similar technologies for co-op banks.

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Management

Babu Nair
( Publisher)

Masters in Marketing Management from Mumbai University.
12 years of experience in IT and business publishing.

Started career with Express Computer-India's leading IT weekly.
Was the inception member of Business Publications division of The Indian Express Group.

Worked in areas of publishing, events, research and strategic alliances.

Launched Banking Frontiers in February 2002.
Organized premium banking conferences like Core Banking 2004 & Payment Tech 2004.

Responsible for taking technology to Co-operative and smaller banks in smaller cities through a movement called Modern Banking from December 2003 onwards.

Specializes in strategic alliances, marketing, publishing and relationship management.

E-mail: babu@bankingfrontiers.com
Cell No- 9867319407

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Manoj Agrawal
(Editor)

MS (Computer Science) from Florida state University

Launched Banking Frontiers in February 2002

Started career in Software Development and went on to become IT head of Lintas advertising and Contract Advertising in Mumbai.
Ex-Features editor with Express Computer

Ex-Editor of ERP Journal and Digital Age
Conceptualized successful events like Core banking and Payment Tech 2004 Conceptualized modern Banking & Profitable Banking for co-operative banks

Moderated and conducted several panel discussions and round tables on banking.

Conducted surveys and studies on various banking & technology topics

E- mail: manoj@bankingfrontiers.com
Cell phone No- 9867366111