Bio

Tamal Bandyopadhyay is an Indian business journalist, known for his weekly column on banking and finance ‘Banker’s Trust’ published in Business Standard, a leading Indian business daily. He had started this column in Mint, an Indian business daily by HT Media Ltd.

He has authored six books namely,

a) HDFC Bank 2.0: From Dawn to Digital,

b) From Lehman to Demonetization: A Decade of Disruptions, Reforms and Misadventures,

c) Bandhan: The Making of a Bank,

d) Sahara: The Untold Story

e) A Bank for the Buck

f) Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy

g) Roller Coaster: An Affair with Banking

All seven books have been non-fiction best sellers.

He has published a book of poems in Bengali Anupam Meenrashi in January 2014.

Bandyopadhyay is a contributor to The Oxford Companion to Economics in India — the first comprehensive compendium of short essays, covering a vast range of themes related to the Indian economy.

He has also written on banking sector reforms in Making of New India: Transformation Under Modi Government.

His sixth book Pandemonium: The Great Indian Banking Tragedy has bagged the Tata Literature Live Best Business Book Award, KLF Best Business Book Award, and Skoch Literature Award

He is a recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for commentary and interpretative writing for the year 2016.

LinkedIn, the global professional network, nominated Bandyopadhyay as one of the top voices in finance globally for three successive years (2015, 2016 and 2017). In 2018 and 2019, he was chosen as one of the top 25 voices in India, across sectors.

Thinkers magazine listed him as one of the top 50 influential minds that have made indelible contributions in the field of economics and governance in India in 2017.

He also regularly publishes updates, key insights and current affairs pertaining to the Indian banking and finance sector on his Twitter handle: TamalBandyo and LinkedIn page.

A student of English Literature (a postgraduate from the University of Calcutta), Bandyopadhyay began his career in journalism as a trainee journalist with The Times of India, in Mumbai in 1985.

Subsequently, he has worked with four national financial dailies: The Economic Times, Financial Express and Mint, beside Business Standard. The Banker’s Trust column started in February 2007 in the second edition of Mint, an Indian business daily brought out by HT Media Ltd.

Bandyopadhyay, a key member of the founding team of the paper, was its Deputy Managing Editor till July 2014 when he gave up his executive role and became a Consulting Editor.

He is currently a Consulting Editor with Business Standard, where he was Deputy Resident Editor in Mumbai before joining Mint.

He is also a Senior Adviser to Jana Small Finance Bank Ltd in Bangalore. He was an adviser at Bandhan Bank Ltd from August 2014 till October 2018.

His weekly column Banker’s Trust, published every Monday, dissects, analyses and anticipates major developments in the Indian banking and financial sector.

Between April and November 2011, he ran a 32-episode series on Bloomberg India TV, called Banker’s Trust, where senior central bankers, commercial bankers, and economists were interviewed every week.

He is a frequent speaker in India and overseas on subjects related to banking and finance.

Bandyopadhyay lives in Mumbai with his family and a pet.