The Airtel Payments Bank has appointed former ICICI Bank senior executive Anubrata Biswas as its Managing Director and CEO.
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- Prior to joining Airtel Payments Bank, Anubrata was Joint General Manager and Retail Business Head - South India for ICICI Bank.
- He would succeed the former CEO Shashi Arora.
- Airtel Payments Bank's former CEO Shashi Arora had quit the company in December 2017 following the e-KYC controversy.
- Shashi Arora was the first MD and CEO of Airtel Payments Bank.
- Bharti Airtel and Airtel Payments Bank were barred by the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) from conducting Aadhaar-based verification of customers using the e-KYC process.
- Airtel Payments Bank was the first payments bank to start operations in India.