Kunal Pande

National Co-Head - Digital Risk and Cyber
National Leader - Digital Trust for Financial Services Sector

KPMG in India

Kunal is National Co-Head for Digital Risk and Cyber and National leader for Digital Trust financial services sector. He is also part of KPMG International’s Global Payments Leadership Group.

He has 25+ years of experience of advising clients across a range of matters, including digital risks, cyber security, data protection, digital frauds, emerging tech risks, resilience, IT strategy and architecture, IT driven transformation, IT sourcing, PMO and IT due diligence.

He has experience across a wide range of clients and industries including banks, NBFCs, payment system operators and participants, MIIs (exchanges, depositories, clearing houses), funds, insurance companies, telecom and technology sectors. He has also worked extensively with regulators and central banks.

He has contributed to several thought leadership publications and has been a speaker/ moderator at conferences on the above subjects.

  • PGDIM (eq MBA)

  • B Tech (Electronics & Comm) Gold Medallist

  • CISA, DCPLA, ISO 27001 Lead Implementor, CBCI (cleared), CISSP (cleared)

Media

Kunal Pande, National Co-Head – Digital Risk and Cyber, National Leader – Digital Trust Financial Services sector, KPMG in India shares insights with The Core on Growth vs load – Why some bank systems are failing?

The technology infrastructure within numerous financial organisations has been established based on a framework implemented several years ago. Consequently, certain components originally not intended for such growth in scale are experiencing strain. For instance, the core banking system, responsible for managing deposits, loans, and transaction banking, is a comprehensive system amalgamating various functions. However, it was not initially engineered to process the high volume of micro-transactions occurring at an unprecedented velocity. Click here to listen in to the full interview. [mark 09:27 onwards]