Articles on LinkedIn and essays on Substack, organised the way recruiters and peers actually look for them — by discipline. Every piece is written from live operational experience in regulated banking.
From the desk that runs letters of credit, guarantees and documentary collections — and contributes to the ABS Trade Finance Registry.
The control side of banking — AML, tax transparency and the trust that regulated finance runs on — from someone who embeds these requirements into daily operations.
CRS 2.0 is a structural reimagining of tax transparency — crypto in scope, due diligence with teeth, AML and CRS converging. What Singapore banks must build before the expected 2027 implementation.
Read the essay →Trust data, RBI oversight and digital banking — why public confidence in India's financial sector is rising, and what Singapore's benchmark status teaches both systems.
Read the article →An early piece on undisclosed foreign income and India's disclosure scheme — the compliance questions that follow money across borders, written a decade before CRS 2.0 made them unavoidable.
Read the article →Written from the MAS MindForge AI Governance Taskforce and from programmes that put automation into live banking operations — AI as an operations and governance question, not a slogan.
The difference between digitising a workflow and redesigning it — with AI and geopolitical risk redrawing cross-border payments, and payments modernisation at the centre. The operating-model argument behind my own transformation record.
Read the article →Vision, culture, core modernisation, regulation and talent — a transformation leader's full checklist, drawn from two decades of programmes that had to land without breaking the bank.
Read the article →Twenty years of payments operations — from building Money2India to leading a national payments migration — turned into analysis of where money movement goes next.
The human side of the record — trust, listening, and the long view on India's place in the world economy.
Trust as a leadership algorithm — a practitioner's reading of Simon Sinek's "Leaders Eat Last" against the reality of running regulated teams.
Read the article →Listening as an operating skill — what unspoken signals tell leaders in finance, customer service and negotiation before the numbers do.
Read the article →Reforms, digital growth and what India's rise means for banks and professionals working across the India–Singapore corridor.
Read the article →A Vipassana retreat from 2003 and the leadership lessons that survived two decades — attention, equanimity and decision-making under pressure.
Read the article →For International Women's Day 2025 — on women, empowerment and education, and the people who move institutions forward.
Read the article →DeepTrailblazer decodes the future of finance: AI, banking evolution, tech trends and regulatory navigation — plus essays and reflections that sit outside the professional desk. New pieces land there first.