A new expat CEO, a bank riddled with losses in its retail banking business, mind- numbing politicking amongst the honchos, aggressive loan sales guys battling the listless credit folks - Greater Boston Global Bank (GB2) seemed to be like any other foreign bank.
It all changes one day when Ronald McCain, CEO of GB2 is hurriedly pulled out of his morning team huddle and summoned by the RBI governor. What ensues thereon is something Ronald is least prepared for. How could anything as catastrophic transpire in an organisation, considered to be the Mecca of banking? Ronald has no answers.
And when the CBI lands up at Deepak Sarup's doors trailing the scent of the same scandal, Ronald decides to distance the bank leaving Deepak, a senior executive, to fight his own battles. Will Karan, Deepak's one-time adversary and now a journalist, bail him out? Will Savitha, his girlfriend, stand by him? And will his family, the CBI and, more importantly, the country believe what he says? With the media and CBI in hot pursuit, Ronald can't help but wonder what fate has in store for him.
An intriguing tale of love, corporate politics, unbridled aggression and money laundering, The Incredible Banker is a story set in Mumbai, Singapore and the jungles of Chhattisgarh. Sometimes future can only be seen in fiction.
Ravi Subramanian, an alumnus of IIM Bangalore, has spent two decades working his way up the ladder of power in the amazingly exciting and adrenalin-pumping world of foreign banks in India. It is but natural that his stories are set against the backdrop of the financial services industry. He lives in Mumbai with his wife Dharini, a biotechnologist turned banker, and daughter Anusha.
The Incredible Banker is third in the trilogy of banking chronicles.