Mr. Anupam Verma

Mr. Anupam Verma is part of the leadership team of ICICI Bank Limited with around 25 years of experience with the ICICI Group. During this period, he has led businesses across diverse customer segments and geographies, including as Chief Executive of Singapore Branch & Regional Head for South East Asia and Chief Executive for International Banking Unit Gift City.

In his current role as Head – International Financial Institution Group and Head – Syndications, Mr. Verma is responsible for ICICI Group relationships with Financial Institutions in over 60 countries. He is also responsible for wholesale fund raising for all international offices of ICICI Group. In addition, he is also responsible for anchoring synergistic implementation of various initiatives, systems and processes across international geographies where the ICICI Group has its operations, as well as for domestic and international debt syndication. He also oversees representative offices in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.

In his role as Chief Executive of Singapore Branch & Regional Head for South East Asia (SEA), Mr. Verma led the Bank’s strategy in South East Asia to play a significant role in capturing investment, Non-Resident Indian remittance, and trade flows between SEA and India in the client segments of Corporates (Global & Indian MNCs), Institutions (Sovereign wealth funds, Foreign Portfolio Investors & Private Equity Funds) and High Net worth NRIs.

As Chief Executive of International Banking Unit (IBU) GIFT City he was instrumental in providing a platform for global businesses and NRIs to participate in the fast-growing Indian economy. Mr. Verma played a pivotal role in launching a domestic branch in Gift City (the first private sector bank) to fulfil the rupee needs of businesses and individuals in Gift City. Mr. Verma also worked closely with International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), the regulator, to conceptualize new business ideas in Gift City. During his tenure, Mr. Verma established a Memorandum of Understanding with GIFT Special Economic Zone (SEZ) to promote Gift City to Indian and global businesses.

Mr. Verma is currently on the Board of ICICI Bank UK, ICICI Bank Canada, SWIFT India and Receivable Exchange India Limited (RXIL). Mr. Verma has an engineering degree from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur and also has a post graduate degree in Business Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur which is one of the premier management education institutes in India.