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Former RBI executive joins DMI Finance board
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- Date
- Company
- DMI Finance
- What it does
- Consumer and MSME lending
- Kind
- People
- Sector
- Financial Services
What they do
DMI Finance provides loans to consumers and small businesses
What happened
Dr Meena Hemchandra, a former RBI executive director, has been appointed as a non-executive director
Why it matters
The appointment strengthens board expertise as regulatory expectations for NBFCs evolve
The details
- Dr Meena Hemchandra has been appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the board of DMI Finance.
- The appointment was approved by the DMI Finance board at a meeting on 15 May 2026.
- Dr Hemchandra is a former Executive Director of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), serving from 2015 to 2017.
- She spent nearly four decades at the RBI.
- At the RBI, she oversaw the supervision of banks, NBFCs (non-banking financial companies) and cooperative banks.
- The appointment reinforces DMI Finance's focus on board-level expertise amid evolving regulatory expectations.
The bigger picture
- DMI Finance is expanding its consumer and MSME (micro, small and medium enterprises) lending businesses.
- The company is strengthening its governance, risk management and oversight frameworks.
About the business
- DMI Finance provides loans to consumers and small and medium businesses.
- The company is expanding its consumer and MSME lending businesses.
- DMI Finance is strengthening its governance, risk management and oversight frameworks.
Founders
- Shivashish Chatterjee, Co-founder and Managing Director
- Yuvraja C Singh, Co-founder
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