Amreesh Kher Joins Bharti AXA Life: The Hidden Insurtech Strategy Redefining Bancassurance Why does a traditional life insurer need an insurtech founder at the helm of its partnerships? The answer is shaking the foundation of India's ₹8.86 lakh crore insurance sector. The Big Picture: Bharti AXA Life Insurance has aggressively onboarded 25-year BFSI veteran Amreesh Kher as Chief Partnership Officer – New Bancassurance & Alliances . As legacy banking networks evolve into digital ecosystems, Kher’s background at API-gateway 1Silverbullet reveals Bharti AXA’s aggressive push toward embedded insurance . The intersection of legacy banking and modern insurtech APIs. Mumbai | November 9, 2026 — A major disruption is quietly unfolding in the Indian life insurance market. While retail agents knock on doors, the real wealth is changing hands inside banking API gateways and...

Why is the Ministry of Finance quietly reshuffling the boardrooms of India’s largest public-sector banks and development finance institutions? While private-sector non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) capture market attention with high-profile C-suite hires—such as Saarathi Finance appointing Alok Aggarwal as President & Group Head , Namdev Finvest inducting Amit Saini as SVP – Risk , and Asirvad Microfinance elevating Manoj Pasangha as MD & CEO —the Department of Financial Services (DFS) is executing a far broader structural playbook across India's state-backed financial ecosystem. Rather than replacing chief executives wholesale, the government is tightening institutional governance from the boardroom level. Through a series of official notifications issued across October and early November 2026, the Ministry of Finance has enacted targeted board nominations, independent director inductions, and executive tenure ...