BharatPe appoints industry veteran Anil Kishora to Unity Small Finance Bank board
19 Nov 2025, 01:51 PMIn his latest stint, Kishora served as the Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of the New Development Bank.
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BharatPe said it has appointed Anil Kishora as Non-Executive Non-Independent Director on the board of Unity Small Finance Bank, in which the fintech major and Centrum Financial Services are shareholders.
Kishora joins the board as BharatPe's nominee, alongside Sumeet Singh, Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs at BharatPe, who was appointed earlier, said the company in a statement.
In his latest stint, Kishora served as the Vice President and Chief Risk Officer of the New Development Bank
(NDB), a multilateral development bank founded by the BRICS countries. He was in this role between July 2020 and August 2025.
Previously, he worked at India's state-run lender State Bank of India (SBI) for more than 37 years.
"His deep understanding of risk, governance, and institutional building will be instrumental as we steer Unity Bank through its next phase of growth and consolidation," Rajnish Kumar, chairman of the board, BharatPe.
BharatPe via its parent, Resilient Innovations, held a 49% stake in Unity Small Finance Bank. Earlier in January, BharatPe was exploring options to sell a portion of its stake to reduce its stake to comply with the Reserve Bank of India's regulatory requirement to bring down the stake to 10% by 2028-29.
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